Eco Action

I walk to work nearly every day all year round. This time of year the cardinals, robins, and chickadees are singing out from the maples, oaks, locust, and Norway spruce trees. The witch hazel are budding, their yellow leaflets jumping, daffodils, snowdrops, and crocuses emerging. I notice the footprints in the soft ground between the Coal...

ahhh sorry sustainability @ psu people i thought this was for penn state. please ignore me while I try to join the right group

Sometimes when my son and I go out to eat, we don't finish everything. So we want to take things home. A couple of weeks ago, we asked for a to-go container. What did they bring? Styrofoam. What to do? I don't want to waste food of course...especially food that's low on the food chain, vegan in fact. But I don't want to perpetuate bad plastics....

Women who are empowered to control their own destinies will help us create a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. 

The industrial farming paradigm was started in the US in the 1950’s with good intentions, but the promised increases in yield efficiency and effectiveness of weed and pest control by chemicals has actually harmed our air, water and soil while decreasing food security and nutritition. I led a discussion of the documentary “Sustainable” in a...

"Climate policy will have to grow much stronger across the board to meet long-term US climate goals... With so much momentum behind electricity decarbonization, foresight suggests shifting at least a little of that focus to the thorny problems of driving, flying, trucking, heating, smelting, coking, and other less sexy, more stubborn...

A sustainable community uses all of its' resources efficiently. For example, MSU's Methane digester used all of the waste products from the dining halls efficiently. It used the bio-fuel produced to power building on campus, and it used the digesters to enrich soil on agricultural land. It is sustainable that all the products were used and...

Family planning includes access to contraceptives and sex education. Better family planning will ultimately make women less dependent and boost economics in the country. 

Pennsylvania has extensive biomass resources available for energy production from existing forest management activities, manufacturing byproducts and post-consumer materials. There is a high potential for carbon neutral energy while enhancing long-Term health and viability of our forests.  To research this topic more, the Pennsylvania Fuels...

Really excited to see a photo of Freiburg as a symbol for energy transition - let’s bring similar innovation to other places! Let the challenge begin!