When a University of Denver professor looking for a solution found engineering students looking for a problem, the result was the definition of DUing. Geography Associate Professor Matthew Taylor has spent 15 years working in rural Guatemala, helping the poorest inhabitants live better lives. He and his students have […]
From community-supported agriculture and farm-to-table restaurants to bestselling books by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, fresh, local food is all the rage in culinary America. The problem, says Lisa Rogers, is that fresh and local isn’t as easy to come by as people think. All looks good at Whole Foods […]
For four decades, University of Denver chemistry professor Donald Stedman has collected, analyzed and categorized just about everything that comes out of passenger vehicle tailpipes. He’s logged tens of thousands of emissions samples from every manner of car, motorcycle and small truck as they whizzed by his ever-present emission detection […]
More than 170 students, faculty and staff at the University of Denver took part April 22 in an Earth Day celebration of sustainability as students presented the DU’s second annual Earth Day Summit. Summit co-founders Megan Marshall and Mariah Shell said they were pleased with the turnout as scores of […]
University of Denver students, faculty and staff will celebrate sustainability with the second annual Earth Day Summit April 22, featuring speakers who will share secrets of incorporating ecological practices into everyday work and play. The lineup of speakers and panelists include a rock star, a restaurateur, an artist, former student […]
Fred Scott (MBA ’00) had a simple idea to help save the planet: produce T-shirts with sustainable business practices. It turned out to be a good idea, too. Scott’s company has more than 60 locations in 13 states and he’s gone from a small-time T-shirt salesman to Chief Executive Officer. […]
The bikes are back in town. The Denver B-cycle program — which had been closed for winter since December — officially re-opened March 14. All 50 bike kiosks around Denver — including two on campus and one near the DU light-rail station — will be stocked with the popular red […]
The University of Denver is stepping up its commitment to sustainability by creating the DU Center for Sustainability and embarking on a search for the center’s first director. The new center will be at the hub of DU’s sustainability efforts and those involved will work closely with the Sustainability Council, […]
Scholars, lawyers, developers, environmentalists and elected officials descended on DU March 3–4 hoping to get a glimpse into the future of the Rocky Mountain region. The University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute hosted its 20th annual conference on land use in the West. The […]
These are exciting times for land use planning. While that may be the first time “exciting” and “land use planning” have shared a sentence, the creators behind the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s 20th annual conference can make that case. As the nation emerges from financial crisis, as markets coil […]
DU’s “green” energy initiative just got cooler. The University installed “eCubes” in freezers and coolers around campus during winter break. The devices, which are wax cubes that affix to a refrigerator’s thermostat, are designed to decrease the power required to keep food cold, according to Tom McGee, DU’s energy engineer. […]
University of Denver Chancellor Robert Coombe opened the Feb. 17–18 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit with a call to rise up as a community and become active in the pursuit for a more sustainable future. Hosting the summit for the first time, the campus drew some 250 attendees and speakers from […]
Barbara Walz (MS ’94) and Lee Boughey (MS ’04) have a fair amount in common: they both work at Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a nonprofit wholesale electricity supplier in Westminster; they’re both enamored by the energy industry; and they both hold master’s degrees in environmental policy and management from […]
The University of Denver goes to the head of the class when it comes to sustainability, a national survey finds. The Sustainable Endowments Institute of Cambridge, Mass., surveyed the 322 institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada with endowments of more than $160 million and graded them […]
The solution to America’s transportation problems could be 100 years in the past.