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Register for Fall 2013 SUST Courses at RU

Posted on July 7, 2013

The SUST program is offering a full slate of courses for the Fall 2013 semester at the Chicago and Schaumburg Campuses as well as online. Most classes begin Monday, September 9th, so there’s plenty of time yet to enroll. Each … Continue reading →

Posted in courses, students

Do the Math on Climate Change

Posted on July 3, 2013

by MaryBeth Radeck Environmental activist Bill McKibben has been writing and speaking about the risks and calamities of climate change for 25 years and he is tired of waiting for us to listen to his well-constructed arguments. McKibben knows he’s … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, conservation, energy, ethics, policy, pollution, Roosevelt, students

Notes from the (Urban) Field: An Amazing Bee Incident, and a Basil Rescue

Posted on June 29, 2013

By Mike Miller, senior SUST major at RU It’s been close to two weeks since my last post on my internship work this summer at the Uncommon Ground, as I came down with a case of the flu that robbed … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, green jobs, internships, Roosevelt, students, wildlife

Obama Announces Plan to Address Climate Change and Reduce GHG Emissions

Posted on June 26, 2013

by Mike Bryson On his widely ready blog, Dot Earth, environmental journalist Andrew Revkin of the New York Times reviews and contextualizes President Obama’s plan, announced yesterday, to use executive powers and EPA regulation to cut GHG emissions and combat … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, energy, news, planning, policy, pollution, science

Agroecology in Southern IL: Week Three Notes from the Field

Posted on June 25, 2013

This guest post is from Roosevelt University Sustainability Studies major Allison Breeding, who was awarded a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship this summer at Southern IL University. This is the third installment of weekly blogs this … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, biodiversity, conservation, ecology, food, research, Roosevelt, science, students, water, wildlife

Notes from the Field: Fruit Bat Ecology and Forest Conservation in Tanzania

Posted on June 22, 2013

This guest post is from Roosevelt University senior Sustainability Studies major and Environmental Science minor Nicole Burns, who went to Tanzania this May as a part of RU biology professor Norbert Cordeiro’s Conservation Biology Africa 369 class. Here Nicole reports … Continue reading →

Posted in biodiversity, conservation, courses, ecology, field trips, parks and public land, research, restoration, Roosevelt, science, students, wildlife | 1 Comment

Start of Fracking Divides the Illinois Environmental Community

Posted on June 20, 2013

by Suhail Barot At the end of the spring legislative session, by very large majorities, the Illinois House and Senate both passed a bill allowing and regulating the practice of “fracking” – the extraction of natural gas from a well … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, energy, news, policy, pollution, water