Freshman Harrison Brennan, inspired in part by a Penn State class, is trying to live his life without single-use plastic items. Brennan's efforts are an example of the ways in which individual Nittany Lions serve as sustainability champions and can contribute to addressing Penn State's waste stream management challenges.
Penn State Berks Sustainability Team will host an Earth Fest celebration on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the Perkins Student Center Lawn and surrounding area.
Faculty at any Penn State campus can receive no-cost training at a two-day workshop May 9-10 on bringing an inter-domain course on the Ethics of Climate Change to their campus. The course is open to faculty of any rank at every Penn State campus.
Penn State alumnus Andrew Ott, the chief executive officer and president of PJM Interconnection LLC, the largest power grid in North America, will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 Energy Days conference on May 29.
The North Atlantic warming hole (NAWH), a region of reduced warming located in the North Atlantic Ocean, significantly affects the North Atlantic jet stream in climate simulations of the future, according to a team of researchers.
The Student Farm Club at Penn State is hosting a public Community Check-In meeting at 4:30-6:30 on Tuesday, April 16, in the Heritage Hall at the HUB on the University Park campus. The event is seeking campus and community input on the future development and expansion of the Student Farm.
Members of Penn State’s Positive Energy student group recently partnered with ClearWater Conservancy, a local conservation group, to clean up a riparian buffer at a farm located in Hublersburg, Pennsylvania.
How do regional opinions on Twitter represent real-world attitudes toward climate change? A team of researchers will work to find out, thanks to a recent seed grant from the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State.
The University has incentives in place to try to reduce trash from single-use cups. This week, the Waste Stream Task Force is initiating a broader community conversation on how to manage all its waste, including how to reduce contamination of recycling streams by consumers inappropriately disposing of things like single-use cups.
Visitors to The Arboretum at Penn State now can explore the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens with the Arboretum’s new, interactive Plant Finder. The map-based program allows users to find the locations of more than 1,100 species of plants in the Arboretum’s living collections.
Energy Days, a two-day conference that brings together the energy expertise of Penn State with those working in and with the energy industry, will occur May 29–30 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The conference is open to the public and is free for Penn State students, faculty and staff.
GreenBriq, a student venture aimed at turning the biomass of invasive water hyacinth plants into affordable fuel briquettes for Kenyan families, recently won first place in the Ag Springboard pitch contest. The competition is a signature event of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
As part of Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology Lecture Series, Gerald E. Galloway, retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army, will present “Dealing with the Growing Consequences of Urban Flooding: Floodplain and Stormwater Management in the Face of Climate Change, Aging Infrastructure, Lack of Funding and Apathy” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16.
Beyond the benefits of renewable energy and habitat restoration, Penn State's new 70-megawatt solar array near the Mont Alto campus will create many student internship and research opportunities to help train the next generation of solar power leaders and familiarize students with utility-scale solar projects.
As part of the Penn State Berks Sustainability Film Series, the college will host a screening of the film "Half-Mile, Upwind, On Foot" at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, April 19, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
