Boston University

Sustainability

Susan Silverman, Yosef Abramowitz

Education & Social Service

Civil Disobedience, a Love Story

October 9, 2014

Boston University faculty fossil fuel divestment petition

Sustainability

BU Faculty Petition Urges Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies

September 10, 2014

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Visual Arts

New Exhibit Showcases Energy Innovations

July 15, 2014

Dennis Carlberg, Boston University director of sustainability, Sustainability@BU, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Carbon Cup, Greenovate Boston, climate change, carbon dioxide emissions reduction target

Sustainability

Boston Awards BU a Carbon Cup

June 11, 2014

Boston University BU, sustainability @ BU, Local seafood supplier Red’s Best fish, Boston Fish Pier

Local

Got (Local) Fish?

April 24, 2014

self-cleaning solar panels, self cleaning solar panels

Engineering

Self-Cleaning System Boosts Efficiency of Solar Panels

March 24, 2014

Boston University BU, Alternative Spring Break ASB, community service, Flagstaff Arizona, Kane Ranch

Ecology

Alternative Spring Breaks: Flagstaff, Arizona

March 20, 2014

Nepal, Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness, ECCA, community suported agriculture, community supported farming, sustainability, natural resources, third-world countries, Helen Petty, opinion, op-ed

Global

POV: What We Can Learn from a Poor Nation

December 18, 2013

Boston University BU, Mass Audobon, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Valerie Pasquarella, Sam Toabe,

Exhibitions

GRS Students Create Exhibition at Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary

December 12, 2013

Boston University BU, Cambodia, ecology research, Les Kaufman, College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Faculty

Ecosystems and Us

December 9, 2013

philippines typhoon 2013, climate change, richard murray, boston university college of arts and sciences, CAS

Earth

POV: Is Philippines Typhoon the New Normal?

December 3, 2013

Boston University, Sustainable Neighborhood Lab, SNL, energy conservation, Madison Park Village, Roxbury, MA, Massachusetts, sustainability programs in Boston

Things-to-do

BU Profs Take Energy Conservation from Lecture Hall to Real Life

November 5, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Engineering ENG professor of electrical and computer, Division of Systems Engineering, Christos Cassandras, building smarter cities, traffic light, parking meter, security camera, solar panel, photovoltaic units

Engineering

If Boston Were Smart

October 28, 2013

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Public Safety

Bike Safety Focus of BU’s Sustainability Festival

September 12, 2013

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University News

Summer Construction on the Charles River Campus

June 26, 2013

Greenovate Boston Awards, Boston University, Sustainability at BU

University News

BU Earns Greenovate Boston Award

June 18, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Engineering ENG, Team Aeolus Building Efficiency, Michael Gevelber, David Cushman, Jonathan Ellermann, Ryan Cruz, Benjamin Smith, $20,000 Energy Efficiency Track Prize, MIT Clean Energy Prize in May Office of Technology Development OTD, Institute for Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Commercialization ITEC, Sustainable Neighborhood Lab, software temperature optimization technology

Research

BU Team Takes a First at MIT Clean Energy Competition

June 14, 2013

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University News

DivestBU Pushes for Green Endowment

April 5, 2013

Ian Sue Wing, Johannes Schmieder, Richard Murray, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Department of Earth and Environment, human induced climate change, economic growth, mitigating climate change, carbon dioxide stabilization policy, environmental policy, environmental economics, carbon dioxide CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, global warming

Faculty

The Climate Crisis: Your Job or Your Planet?

March 29, 2013

Dr. Cutler Cleveland, renewable energy, sustainable energy development, energy transitions, fossil fuels, Boston University climate change research, human induced climate change, global warming, carbon dioxide emissions, CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions

Sustainability

The Climate Crisis: Breaking the Fossil Fuel Habit

March 28, 2013

The Climate Crisis: Breaking the Fossil Fuel Habit