Academic Institutions Achieving LEED Certification
Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
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Cadence Academic Network at 59DAC
3BL Media
JULY 25, 2022
DESCRIPTION: The Cadence Academic Network was excited to participate in many activities at the 2022 Design Automation Conference (DAC) held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from July 10-14. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:CDNS, Cadence Design Systems, 59DAC, Cadence Academic Network.
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Academic Cloud and the Digital Skills Boom
3BL Media
MARCH 2, 2022
Enter the Academic Cloud. The Academic Cloud offers shared tech and server resources across institutions to expand reach to students while providing lower maintenance and management costs. The components of the Academic Cloud are simple. SOURCE: VMware.
Academic Institutions Achieving LEED Certification
Environment + Energy Leader
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
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How This Academic Homegirl Is Breaking the Bias
3BL Media
APRIL 28, 2022
My network and I are a group of Academic Homegirls who use the power of community and connection to help each other. SOURCE: Lenovo. DESCRIPTION: Dr. Maricela Becerra, College Professor & Lenovo Innovator.
Writing beyond the academic journal
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Academic papers play an outsize role in career advancement, but researchers who want to expand their reach should look beyond peer-reviewed journals. Read the full story at Inside Higher Education. Read more → Communicating science
How to build a business plan from your academic sustainability research
GreenBiz
MARCH 14, 2022
Some of the most important research on climate changing is happening in academia, but getting it from the lab to the investor table is key
A Heartwarming Project Action Grant Helped Tae Purchase Books for Students in Need of Academic Support
3BL Media
DECEMBER 22, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Tae founded a non-profit to provide free lessons to students in need of academic support. Tweet me: @HersheyCompany supports Tae, who founded a non-profit to provide free lessons to students in need of academic support. SOURCE: The Hershey Company.
The peer review system is broken. We asked academics how to fix it
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 2, 2022
Before new work is published in an academic journal, experts scrutinise the evidence, research and arguments to make sure they stack up. We asked academics how to fix it.
Academics develop PET-like plastics from biomass waste
Environmental News Bits
JULY 22, 2022
According to its developers, the new method shows great promise in meeting the demand for more sustainable options within the plastics … Continue reading Academics develop PET-like plastics from biomass waste. Read the full story at Resource. New research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne’s (EPFL) School of Basic Sciences has revealed a method for the creation of PET-like plastics using biomass waste.
Transition methodologies failing to meet Paris Agreement, academics warn
Environmental Finance
AUGUST 11, 2022
investors and regulators for calculating transition pathways are failing to accurately reflect the Paris Agreement goals, with academics warning that most business will consequently fail to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in time Existing methodologies commonly used by companies.
Academic Economist Productivity Rankings
Matthew E. Kahn
AUGUST 7, 2021
Across all of the world's economists; #9 in Environmental Economics #25 in Urban economics #4 in Resource Economics #27 in Energy Economics
UMich study finds correlation between Flint water crisis and poor academic performance
Environmental News Bits
JULY 28, 2022
A recent University of Michigan study found a correlation between the Flint water crisis and a decrease in academic performance for school-age children. However, later studies revealed elevated levels of … Continue reading UMich study finds correlation between Flint water crisis and poor academic performance. Read the full story in the Michigan Daily.
Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 23, 2022
Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said. Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, the Nasa data scientist Peter Kalmus, and prominent … Continue reading Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics. Read the full story from The Guardian.
Academic wins international award for urban ecology work
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 24, 2022
A researcher at Northumbria University is part of a group of academics to win a prestigious international award for their work on sustainable science.
Academic collaboration boosts SME efforts to reach net zero
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 16, 2022
We will work closely with them to identify a bespoke course of action harnessing the skills and expertise of undergraduates, postgraduates and world-renowned academics, and leveraging our plethora of world-class facilities. “I
Academic alliances aim to put purpose and planet at core of curricula
Financial Times: Moral Money
JANUARY 12, 2023
Business school and faculty networks respond to demand for more sustainability-related content
How academics are getting to grips with corporate greenwashing
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 25, 2021
Read the full story in The Irish Times. The Greenwatch Project, which launched last year, is developing artificial intelligence-based methods to detect greenwashing, in order to improve the measurement of progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more → Corporate sustainability Greenwashing
Academic paper highlights AD’s current and future carbon footprint
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Bath University’s recent paper identifies the potential for GHG emissions savings from biogas utilisation. In Wiltshire, Malaby Biogas’s Bore Hill Farm Biodigester was the case study in a research project published by Bath University and supported by Supergen Bioenergy Hub.
New academic-industry collaboration to tackle global challenges in sustainability
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 23, 2021
Read the full story from the University of Bath. The University of Bath is coordinating a major new collaboration with academia and industry to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero carbon emissions. Read more → Chemical manufacturing Colleges and universities Green chemistry
Academic study of East African maritime traditions shows changes in boatbuilding
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
MAY 10, 2022
The first detailed academic study of East African maritime traditions shows changes in boatbuilding techniques but the continuing use of wooden vessels by fishers
Jack and Barbara Nicklaus KitchenAid Senior PGA Champions for Change Scholarship Helps Underserved Students at Lake Michigan College Achieve Their Academic Goals
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
The program is designed to help underserved individuals achieve academic success. Tweet me: @WhirlpoolCorp awarded its KitchenAid Senior PGA Champions for Change Scholarship to help two individuals achieve academic success. SOURCE: Whirlpool Corporation.
Leading Academic Economist Offers Optimism about Climate Change Policy
Energy Central
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Three new academic journals to meet growing demand for environmental research
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Read the full story from IOP Publishing. IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching three new, fully open access (OA) journals, extending the?publisher’s publisher’s Environmental Research series. IOPP’s Environmental Research Series now comprises of six titles that collectively address all major areas of environmental science. Environmental Research:?Health?(ERH)?and Health?(ERH)?and and Environmental?Research:?Climate?(ERCL) Research:?Climate?(ERCL) Climate?(ERCL)
The Role of Qualitative Data in Academic Field Experiment Research
Matthew E. Kahn
APRIL 2, 2022
Given the publication incentives of academic researchers and given their finite research budgets, they have strong incentives to pursue treatment effect designs that are effective. This will be a "big think" blog post that shares my thinking about this March 2022 Nature Human Behavior paper titled " The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research". Permit me to focus on one example. Consider a sample of 5,000 equally talented and ambitious 18 year olds.
With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest
Eco-Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Using activism and scientific research, a Thai community stopped a wetland forest from being turned into an industrial zone
Urgent action on carbon measurement needed, according to academic group
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 27, 2021
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Academic group launches nuclear energy for net zero roadmap
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 15, 2021
Co-author Professor Gregg Butler added: “We have developed this paper because we felt a responsibility as an impartial academic community to support our colleagues in government and industry. Heysham nuclear power station in Lancashire (image credit: David Merrett , CC BY 2.0 license).
Ranking Academic Economics Power Couples Based on July 2021 REPEC Data
Matthew E. Kahn
AUGUST 8, 2021
A few months ago, I posted a Twitter tweet about how to use REPEC data to rank academic couples. I followed a symmetric transparent method. My criteria takes the REPEC Ranking for one spouse + REPEC ranking for the other spouse. I treat them as equals. If an economist is not married to an economist or if a highly ranked economist is married to another economist who is not ranked on REPEC, then they are not included. I used this list to find th e top ranked women in economics.
2022 AISES Leadership Summit to Be Held on the Ancestral Lands of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians
3BL Media
APRIL 1, 2022
Sessions focused on career development and mentorship offer leadership advice and tools for academic success and career growth. April 10–12. SOURCE: American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). DESCRIPTION: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.,
Study: Major firms may be performing worse than they think against net zero goals
GreenBiz
AUGUST 16, 2022
A major new academic study sets out a new climate progress assessment framework for corporates — and they are falling short
How data-driven research partnerships deepen energy access across supply chains
GreenBiz
JUNE 16, 2022
A truly just energy transition is possible through collaboration between private, public and academic stakeholders
Nature financing may be 'too little, too late'
Environmental Finance
MARCH 2, 2023
Private financing of nature-based solutions needs to ramp up to restore nature's capacity to absorb climate-related shocks - or risk leaving capital that has already been committed being "too little, too late", academics have said
Is 3D printing part of the future for meat alternatives?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
A new report shows how some companies and academic research labs are applying extrusion, 3D printing and cellular agriculture to produce meat alternatives.
Why bad strategy is a ‘social contagion’
McKinsey Sustainabilty
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Author and academic Richard Rumelt explains how to develop strategies that aim to solve problems rather than simply state ambitions. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Strategy
How COVID-19 caused a global learning crisis
McKinsey Sustainabilty
APRIL 3, 2022
The pandemic has taken a substantial toll on students’ academic progress as well as on their mental health. School systems can respond across multiple horizons to help students get back on track. Insights on Education Education
Environmental leaders recognised in New Year's Honours
Environmental Finance
JANUARY 3, 2023
The King's New Year's Honours List has recognised a number of environmental leaders for their work, including fund manager Beverley Gower-Jones and academic Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
CSRHub Data Used for COVID-19 Research and Analysis
CSR Hub
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
CSRHub data was used as a major resource for a recent academic paper. The study examines the effect of Covid-19 on the U.S. tourism and hospitality industry, and the impact CSR practices have on firms' success responding to Covid-19. CSR Covid-19 Corporate Sustainability Metrics impact
The scientists who switched focus to fight climate change
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 17, 2022
Four researchers describe how they found different ways of responding to the planet’s biggest threat — from quitting tenure to overhauling their academic programme. Read the full story in Nature. Climate
'Win-win' solutions to protect human health and conserve ecosystems
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
AUGUST 3, 2022
Research examines academic literature to find 46 interventions that would simultaneously benefit humans and the environment
Research culture
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 13, 2021
These are just some of the characteristic problems of current academic research culture. Hypercompetition. Overwork. Career instability. Lack of diversity. Discrimination. Misconduct.
Kimberly-Clark Celebrates 30 Years of Bright Futures with College Scholarship Awards
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Kimberly-Clark recently awarded 2022 Bright Futures college scholarships totaling $980,000 to 49 students for academic achievement and leadership in their schools and communities. SOURCE: Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
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