Education & Activism

KENT, Ohio, Oct. 26 (UPI) — Kent State University has been named the nation’s second designated training facility for biosafety and biocontainment professionals.
The university’s designation was conferred by the National Institutes of Health’s National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program, making Kent the second facility in the country to receive that designation. As such, the [...]

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 26 (UPI) — The United Nations Monday named Disney character Tinker Bell an “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help raise children’s environmental awareness.
The announcement came just before a screening at U.N. headquarters in New York of the world premiere of the Walt Disney animated film, “Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure,” the [...]

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) — The World Wildlife Fund has condemned an advertisement by a Brazilian agency that shows dozens of planes heading for Lower Manhattan and sports the fund’s logo.
Spokesman Steve Ertel says the controversial ad was rejected after it was pitched by an advertising agency to the Brazilian branch of the fund, [...]

We’re always excited to see sustainable living practices being adopted at earlier ages – and one of the most influential time periods in anyone’s life is when they’re off at college. Thanks to Syracuse University’s Chancellor Nancy Cantor – students living on campus at SU will be exposed to a greener way of life.
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If you’ve read today’s copy of The Mercury News, you may have come across an interesting article from writer Jennifer Squires… One that discusses the potential of eco-terrorism incidents in California.
Squires writes…

SCOTTS VALLEY — The vandalism at a construction site on Green Hills Road earlier this month likely is connected to similar attacks on heavy [...]