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The first installment of the iPat Films Series was a success on Monday night at UW-Green Bay, with more than 50 people in attendance, Prof. Dallas Blaney of Public and Environmental Affairs reports. The...
Fox 11 news on Wednesday (Aug. 15) ran a nice story about the Sierra Club’s recently released “Coolest School” list, which ranks UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay among the most sustainable universities in the country....
Nothing puts the “reality” into science camp quite like sampling a creek in 100 degree heat, standing in a huge expanse of an invasive reed species (Phragmites) towering overhead, exploring the evolutions of sand...
The water refill station in the University Union got some nice ink in Tuesday’s (June 5) Press-Gazette, with Union Director Rick Warpinski discussing the unit’s popularity and environmental impact. The station was added about...
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was notified this week it has been selected for inclusion in the free, downloadable book, The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. The publishers bill their product — created in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council — as focusing “solely on colleges that have demonstrated a notable commitment to sustainability.” They say they chose the 322 schools based on a survey conducted in 2011 of 778 colleges in order to include a green metric in their popular college guidebooks and websites.
Bird enthusiasts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay are taking an “if you build it, they will come” approach toward attracting peregrine falcons to nest atop the campus’ tallest building. Observers could know as early as this month whether peregrines will return to nest atop the eight-story Cofrin Library.
Prof. Emeritus Bud Harris is quoted extensively in a piece by advocacy journalist Bill Lueders exploring the controversy over plans to fill and develop a small wetlands at the intersection of Lombardi Avenue and...
The issue of what to do with Wisconsin wetlands has hit close to home in recent months, after the state Legislature in February voted to exempt a Lambeau Field-area wetland from rules governing the...
WBAY, Channel 2 on Friday (Sept. 16) featured the University Union’s “hydration station” in a story about steps some campuses have taken to ban the sale of plastic water bottles. The station, located in...
Are you storing any University-generated, nonhazardous electronic waste? Please deliver it to the Receiving/Mail Center area (Lab Sciences 110) no later than Thursday (Sept. 22) and it will be taken for reuse or proper...
