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Dr. Richard Cairncross, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University,  is currently in El Salvador on a Fulbright Lectureship. He will be teaching a course on Renewable Energy at the University of El Salvador.  He has created this blog called Sustainability and Renewable Energy In El Salvador: A Blog of Experiences on a Fulbright Lectureship in El Salvador to showcase and highlight his experiences there.

See also: Professor Cairncross Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Teach Renewable Energy at the University of El Salvador

The report includes a brief citation to our presentation during the American Society of Engineering Education in Austin, TX.

June 14-17, 2009 – Drexel Smart House and Drexel University’s Library presented a collaborative proposal for information-literacy development to the American Society of Engineering Education in Austin, TX.

See: Drexel Smart House Six Month Report and News and Interests from Drexel Green web site

Third place went to Jameson Detweiler and Tom Milewski, who are students in the Drexel College of Engineering. They will receive $4,000 in seed money, more than $6,500 in in-kind support, and space in the Baiada Center’s incubator. Detweiler and Milewski are the brains behind Konnect.me, which is developing Web communities for specific industries. Its first site is green.konnect.me and serves the green building industry.

Read the full article at: Baiada Incubator winners

A post just for a chuckle!

Gwyneth Paltrow, in her lifestyle newsletter GOOP, gives her top recommendations for Green Living. This week’s GOOP newsletter includes recyclable socks ($16) all the way to a full electric car ($12, 500+). As an added bonus, Cameron Diaz drops by to also give her top seven green products and services.

Everyone’s going green!

The Wall Street Journal published a new round of the paper/plastic/reusable bag debate. It’s a good article, but more telling are the comments from WSJ readers, who mainly seem to think that reusable bags are the worse of their options. The bag backlash is interesting…

he senior design team of Eric Eisele, Courtney Reid, Dan Pugh, Sarah Byrnes, and Charlie Woods was awarded a Phase II People, Prosperity, and Planet Award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Competing against 43 university teams, the Drexel University Department of Materials Science and Engineering team received one of six Phase II awards on Monday, April 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. at the National Sustainable Design Expo.

The award-winning senior design project, “Cool Roof Coatings Utilizing Glass Hollow Microspheres for Improved Solar Reflectance,” increases the reflectance of cool roof coatings while cutting raw material costs. Cool roof coatings save energy and mitigate the urban heat island effect. Previously, the team received a Phase I award in the amount of $10,000.  The Phase II awards provide $75,000 of funding for two years and will be used to develop the coating further and field test the technology by reaching out to the neighborhoods surrounding Drexel. The team will work in conjunction with the Drexel Smart House initiative.

See:  Senior Design Team Wins $75,000 Phase II EPA Funding

The Student Life Symposium on Sustainability and Social Justice hosted by the Division of Student Life Professional Development, Sustainability and Social Justice Committees will be held on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from 11:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Behrakis Grand Hall, Creese Student Center (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

See: Student Life Symposium on Sustainability and Social Justice

Drexel Green site provides access to several webcasts/podcasts of presentations conducted at the Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Enterprise Center,  on a variety of topics  including climate change, capitalism and sutainability, science of global warming, and Drexel and its waste.

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Here is another useful site. See Create your own Green Cleaners from Going Green @ Your Library to learn more about different ways which we can use to make our libraries more greener.  Yale University Library also has Green initiative called  Yale University Library Green Team. See also Green initiatives cited as cost-saving measures