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Jan. 22, 2015 | by: Kelly April Tyrrell Today, fewer chicken nuggets can trace their roots to cleared Amazon rain forest. In 2006, following a report from Greenpeace and under pressure from consumers, large companies like McDonald’s and Wal-Mart decided to stop using soy grown on cleared forestland in the Brazilian Amazon. This put pressure …
Jan. 22, 2015 | by: Lika Balenovich The University of Wisconsin–Madison will offer its next round of sixMassive Open Online Courses beginning Jan. 26 with “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation.” Jan. 22, 2015 | by: Lika Balenovich The University of Wisconsin–Madison will offer its next round of sixMassive Open Online …
Jan. 22, 2015 | by: Kelly April Tyrrell Today, fewer chicken nuggets can trace their roots to cleared Amazon rain forest. In 2006, following a report from Greenpeace and under pressure from consumers, large companies like McDonald’s and Wal-Mart decided to stop using soy grown on cleared forestland in the Brazilian Amazon. This put pressure …
Jan. 23, 2015 | by: Scott Gordon In a paper recently published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, a team led by chemical and biological engineering Professors Christos Maravelias and George Huber outlined a tool to help engineers better gauge the overall yield, efficiency and costs associated with scaling solar-fuel production processes up into large-scale …
January 20, 2015 | by Jill Sakai As we toss something into a recycling bin, the item leaves our minds almost as soon as it leaves our hands. But where does that material go? Why are there so many different bins? And does it really matter anyway? January 20, 2015 | by Jill Sakai …
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison its 2015 Community Engagement Classification. This makes it one of a select group of higher education institutions recognized for deeply engaging with local, regional, national and global communities. – See more at: http://news.wisc.edu/carnegie-foundation-recognizes-uw-madison-for-community-engagement/#sthash.ypB3iZjP.dpuf
Congratulations to our 2015 Sustainability Innovation in Research and Education (SIRE) award winners! New grants are being awarded in the Educational Innovation and Research Initiation programs. SIRE-Educational Innovation grants Solutions for Food Waste Reduction: Integrating Teaching with Research on Sustainability Advancing the Assessment of Sustainability Learning Outcomes at UW–Madison SIRE-Research Initiation grants Energy-Efficient Recycling of …
Jan. 15, 2015 | by: Adam Hinterhuer An international team of researchers says climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, and altered biogeochemical cycles like phosphorus and nitrogen runoff have all passed beyond levels that put humanity in a “safe operating space.” Jan. 15, 2015 | by: Adam Hinterhuer An international team of researchers …