12-13: Environmental Sustainability
Western Washington University is again on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the nation’s top 20 green energy purchasers in higher education.
Western, which is 19th on the EPA list, annually offsets 100 percent of its electrical consumption from green sources via…
Environmentalist and activist David Suzuki will give a lecture titled “Time is Running Out: Ecology or Economics?” at noon on May 6 at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, as part of Western’s annual Japan Week Celebration.
The event is co-sponsored by…
Environmentalist and activist David Suzuki will give a lecture titled “Time is Running Out: Ecology or Economics?” at noon on May 6 at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, as part of Western’s annual Japan Week Celebration.
The event…
Western Libraries and the Green Energy Fee Grant Program will present the next film in the "The Built to Last Picture Show" series about sustainability in film at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 29.
The next film is "Dirty Business: 'Clean Coal' and the Battle for our…
The Viking Commons, Fairhaven Commons, and Ridgeway Commons is celebrating Earth Day today, April 22, by offering locally grown foods.
Since Aramark became Western's Dining…
Western Sustainability “Lunch & Learn Conversations”, hosted by the WWU Office of Sustainability and co-sponsored by TLA, invite you to join the conversation!
Wilson 265, Mondays, 1-2 p.m., April 8 - May 20.
All members of the…
Western Reads, a campus-wide reading program at Western Washington University, has chosen “Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North,” by Nancy Lord, as its 2013-14 reading selection.
The book will be given to all incoming Western freshmen and will be…
An international team of 21 authors from 17 institutions in seven countries, including Western Washington University’s Andy Bunn, has just published a study in the journal “Nature Climate Change” showing that, as the cover of snow and ice in the northern latitudes has…
Students in the Campus Sustainability Planning Studio will present their research at 4 p.m Wednesday in Communications Facility Room 120 on the Western Washington University campus.
The four projects to be discussed include a look at graywater harvesting, a report on…
The Washington State Recycling Association has selected Western Washington University to receive the 2013 Institution/Higher Education Recycler of the Year award.
The Washington State Recycler of the Year awards spotlight individuals, businesses, government organizations and…