The American Meteorological Society’s Education Program invites you to apply for the AMS Climate Studies Diversity Project and offer a dynamic course on the most current climate science and global change issues. AMS will select 25 minority-serving institution faculty members to attend the expenses-paid Course Implementation Workshop in Silver Spring, MD from May 21 - 26, 2017. The application deadline is Wednesday, March 15, 2017 and workshop selections will be made by March 31.

The workshop leverages the expertise of Washington, DC-area NSF, NASA, NOAA and university climate scientists and will help prepare you to offer the AMS Climate Studies course. Under the Diversity Project, the license fee is waived for the first two years of course offering.

Eligible minority-serving institutions include those Federally designated as well as undergraduate institutions with a 25% or greater enrollment of underrepresented minority students.

Learn more and apply.
For questions call 202-737-1043 or e-mail AMS.

As part of the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) and Second Nature have published a total of four case studies highlighting higher education investment in solar energy projects.The case studies showcase working financial models for universities and other higher education institutions to invest in solar energy on campus.

This month, the fourth and final case study, looking at Colby College's renewable energy startegies, was released.

Learn more.
Download the case studies.

This October marks the second annual Campus Sustainability Month, hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), where institutions around the world engage and inspire incoming students and other campus stakeholders to become leaders for sustainability.

As a proud supporter, we invite you to explore what other institutions are doing to celebrate this month, as well as raise awareness of the value of sustainability in higher education by visiting the Campus Sustainability Month website, submitting an event and using the hashtag, #CampusSustainabilityMonth. Learn more.

Wege Prize is a yearly student design competition that gives teams of five the chance to collaborate across institutional and disciplinary boundaries, use design thinking principles, and contend for $30,000 in total cash prizes, all while helping to show the world what the future of problem solving looks like. Each team must leverage its transdisciplinary makeup to collaboratively design and propose a product, service, business/non-profit organization, or other solution to a wicked problem that can help us transition from a linear economic model to a circular economic model. Registration ends on November 30. Learn more and register.

Tue, Oct 18, 2016 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Second Nature, with the help of signatory institutions, recently updated their carbon offsets guidance– a resource that helps campuses understand how offsets can play a role in meeting their climate goals. The updated guidance provides more flexibility for schools looking to leverage their academic resources to find innovative carbon offset solutions. Specifically, the guidance discusses the role of peer reviewed and innovative carbon offsets. This webinar will review these two new categories of offsets and introduce a new offset verification network that will work to develop an overarching peer review framework for higher education offset projects. Register.

Thu, Oct 27, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

The need to build community resilience to hazards is strikingly evident. As a response to this ever increasing need, Community Resilience Building was created. After a decade of development, the Community Resilience Building Workshop has been tried, tested, and is trusted by thirty-five communities. The CRB Workshops employ a community-driven process where participants identify top hazards, current challenges, strengths, and priority actions to improve resilience to all natural and climate-related hazards today, and in the future for their communities and beyond. This webinar, brought to you in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, will help you better understand the process and assess the applicability to your own communities goals. Register.

In this webinar, Antioch University’s Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience will release findings from the 2016 Local Solutions Report: Identifying and meeting the needs of local communities adapting to climate change. The report coalesces and analyzes data from a range of sources, including the Local Solutions Survey, participant evaluations of climate preparedness capacity-building programs, and community need statements to inform priorities for public policies, budget setting, private sector funding, investments, and action. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the report findings and discussion of multiple approaches to overcoming barriers, based on insights from field-tested examples. Register.