Sustainability Grant Helps Baltimore City Schools Reduce Electricity Costs

BALTIMORE — Three of the city’s public schools cut a combined $1,500 from their electricity costs over the course of last February and March. The savings were achieved in part through a collaborative program with the Baltimore Office of Sustainability and the Maryland Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

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AASHE Releases Annual Review of Campus Sustainability

DENVER — The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education is excited to announce the release of its 2011 Higher Education Sustainability Review.

Informed by AASHE’s weekly e-newsletter, AASHE Bulletin, this review quantifies successes in the higher education sustainability movement and looks toward the future.

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Sustainability Service Companies Merge

BOULDER, Colo. — Sustainability management software provider PE International and Five Winds International, a sustainability management consultant firm, recently announced a merger aimed at enabling market penetration in North America and bringing Five Winds consulting services to a global audience.

Officials from the firms said the merger addresses a growing demand in the market for solutions that drive improvements in product-level and enterprise-wide sustainability performance.

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Green Buildings Alive – Podcast

While it might seem that less people working in a commercial building means less energy used, data gathered by Investa Sustainability Institute, based in Sydney, Australia, shows that buildings actually perform better at full occupancy.  We talk with Beck Dawson, Sustainability Manager with the Institute, who tells us how this counterintuitive study works, and about a webs

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Q&A: Greening Corrections ACA Panel

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Greening of Corrections panel, one of many educational opportunities at ACA’s 139th Congress of Correction, emphasized the challenges of applying sustainability strategies and measures at justice facilities.

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