ENVIRONMENTALISM

UVA climate activists hold 'walkout' to 'rally for change' after Trump win

University of Virginia students walked out on Friday to protest Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential ele…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Nov 13, 2024

U of Nebraska football team brings back beloved balloon release tradition, triggering outrage from climate activists

UNL’s then-Athletics Director Trev Alberts stopped the tradition in 2022, blaming a helium shortage.

By Ethnie Barnhouse '25
Sep 26, 2024

Oakland City Council member disinvited from Berkeley after students object to his pro-Israel views

A California progressive was disinvited from giving a talk at the University of California, Berkeley, following a s…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Jan 11, 2024

College gives formerly incarcerated indigenous rights advocate $100k, two-week residency

Dickinson College recently awarded Tara Houska with a residency, launched the Center for the Futures of Native Peop…

By Emily Fowler '24
Oct 9, 2023

Harvard students demand environmental law prof cut ties with oil giant ConocoPhillips

A climate activist student group at Harvard University published an article on Mar. 28 calling on Professor Jody Fr…

By Alyssa Patterson '24
Apr 7, 2023

'Cop City' will cause police brutality, environmental damage, say students and faculty

After the Atlanta City Council approved the so-called 'Cop City,' the police and fire fighter training center has r…

By Shelby Kearns
Feb 26, 2023

'Queer Ecologies Panel' calls parks 'gendered,' 'racialized,' 'capitalist'

A recent panel featured professors describing how to apply an LGBTQ-centered approach to ecology to 'conservation w…

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Feb 23, 2023

Illinois student gov hosts 'Meat Free Monday' for 'Earth Week'

The ISG has allocated $840 to fund the event, which aims to teach students about "the benefits of going 'meat free,…

By Blair Nelson
Apr 13, 2018

Universities offer tips for having a 'green' Thanksgiving

Several universities are providing students with guidelines on sustainable Thanksgiving practices to impose on thei…

By Amber Athey
Nov 23, 2016

‘EcoSexual’ students at SMC ‘marry the ocean’

After the ceremony, some students made their way to the shoreline, where they were urged by event organizers to “co…

By Cabot Phillips
May 26, 2016

Minnesota student fees fund progressive lobbying group

The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) has chapters at seven universities in Minnesota.

By Maggie Lit
Oct 17, 2014

Study: Environmentalists discriminate against women and minorities

More than 70 percent of the presidents and board chairs of environmental groups were male. At the richest organizat…

By Maggie Lit
Aug 13, 2014

UC - Berkeley brings in 500 goats to be ‘eco-friendly lawn mowers’

The goats are used to eat grass on hills outside of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

By Kat Timpf
Jul 24, 2014

Professor claims China’s authoritarian government helps the environment, America “grotesquely immoral”

Grinnell College professor David Campbell says that China's authoritarian government "has been very enlightened."

By Kat Timpf
Apr 29, 2014