GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines for Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Critical Review This article takes a close look at GRI guidelines while providing a critique and suggesting alternatives. This is perhaps not too different from the research article that we are looking to write about STARS reporting, albeit ours more comparative. Also, Dumay et […]
Archives for 2016
KaleTek
KaleTek – a Hydrophobic Kale-Based Spray Developed in EINV 241 – Technologies of the Future
The College Sustainability Report Card
The College Sustainability Report Card was a program from the Sustainable Endowments Institute that ran from 2007-2011. It was the first comprehensive list of sustainability profiles of institutions of higher education and it assessed the 300 schools in the US and Canada with the largest endowments along with around 20 other institutions who chose to […]
STARS Version 2.1
This past January, two years after the introduction of STARS 2.0, AASHE released a new update to the sustainability assessment system. This is the fifth update to the assessment and contains more minor changes compared to a brand new version. It is also not yet in effect, but listed as the forthcoming edition. The biggest change […]
The Oyster War: A Review
Summer Brennan presents an interdisciplinary and in-depth look into a conflict over an oyster farm. The problem is whether or not the Drake’s Bay Oyster Company should have its lease renewed to continue operations after 2012. The most impressive part of Brennan’s writing is her deep look into the history of Point Reyes and oystering on […]
In praise of artificial food — Aeon Opinions
Artificial food. That’s what humans eat. I say this to anyone who will listen. ‘Oh yes,’ comes the reply. ‘The more’s the pity. Cheap, nasty, imitation food-like substances. It’s high time to return to natural food.’ But, no, I mean artificial in its original sense of man-made, produced by humans, artfully created. Our distant ancestors […]
Five Recently Funded AgTech Startups
Phytech – A leading, Israeli-based precision farming company. Specializes in sensors that attach directly to crops that work with soil moisture and microclimate sensors to provide the most accurate condition of a certain crop. It pairs these stats with yield improving suggestions for farmers directly provided through an easy-to-use app. The company recently closed Series A […]
Technology and Environmentalism – An Overview
Reading five different articles on the role of technology in environmental movements, I have seen just how divisive an issue technology is. With BBC headlines such as “Nature and technology: friends or enemies?”, it is easy to boil down the issue into a simple dichotomy to take sides with, but there exists many, many opinions. […]
We Need a New Green Revolution – The New York Times
DESPITE the four-year drought that has parched California and led to mandatory restrictions on water use, farmers there have kept feeding the country. California produces more of 66 different food crops than any other state, $54 billion of food annually. Maintaining this level of productivity has been quite a challenge in recent years and is […]
Tim DeCristopher, The Delta 5, and Civil Disobedience
Yesterday I went to a presentation at a local Unitarian Universalist Church from environmental activist, Tim DeCristopher, who famously outbid dozens of oil companies to protect the land and make a statement on the continued use of fossil fuels. His presentation centered around the trail of the Delta 5, five activists who tied themselves to […]