Growing up in the small town of Shelton, Wash., Professor Bruce C. Monger, earth and atmospheric sciences, always enjoyed the outdoors. Monger did not think about becoming an oceanographer or attending college until after two years of working as a logger after high school.

Jolyon Bloomfield ’12, along with other interested students, gathered volunteers and began Lights Off Cornell by flipping switches in Rockefeller Hall and Baker Lab.

Six students in Professor Joe Regenstein’s Agriculture and Life Sciences 4470: Environmental Stewardship in the Cornell Community are investigating Collegetown composting for their class project. The group is composed of six juniors and seniors, led by Kristen Vitro ’11.

Born and raised in India, Yash Gharat ’13 became interested in studying the effects of economic development on environmental and wildlife protection efforts in developing countries.

The Cornell University Sustainable Design project team was established in an effort to create a team dedicated to multifaceted sustainability, research and design. This contrasted from the Solar Decathelon competition in which the team formerly participated. Founded in fall 2009, the group has garnered the interest of over 600 students during their first semester of recruitment.

Channeling the energy of its founders, KyotoNOW! turns ten - spending the last decade active in environmental issues.

Two Cornell students and one Ithaca College student were nearly arrested Monday after they marched into the Department of the Interior during the youth environmental conference Power Shift.

The president of Take Back the Tap relays the club's mission and vision for water consumption and sustainable use on campus. 

“Get on the bus,” Summer Rayne Oakes ’04, natural resources and entomology, said to an audience of students, faculty and staff last Wednesday. She did not mean get on the TCAT and leave the car keys at home, though the world’s first eco-model certainly would not object to that. Oakes was referring to the countless Campus-to-Campus bus trips she boarded every Friday down to New York City and back to Ithaca again each Monday to work as a model, while enrolled as a full-time student. Too often, she said, “so many of us have ideas and talk about it, but we never get on the bus.”

Prof. Anil Netravali explores biodegradeable materials to improve environmental conditions and increase sustainability.