During the school year there are many ways you can be sustainable. For example instead of buying fresh notebooks and supplies every month, utilize your old supplies . It’s also a great moment to think about how your everyday choices can affect the planet. Sustainability doesn't have to be overwhelming or “all or nothing”. Small habits actually add up, and most of them are easy to bake into your normal routine. Here are five practical ways to make this school year a little gre

Duke University Climate Week Feature How can we better protect our coastlines in a world of rising sea levels and intensifying climate impacts? Ethan Cho, a current student at Duke University and a Greener is Cleaner alumnus, has been working to answer that very question. Presenting at the Climate+ program , Ethan shared his team’s project titled “Mapping High-Stakes Coastal Zones: An Interactive Dashboard for Improved Coastal Decision-Making.” Developed through the Nicholas

Image Source Back in January, while figuring out my journey from Madrid to Barcelona for my first Erasmus project, I noticed something interesting — even though a flight was cheaper, I was being encouraged to use the Green Travel Budget and take a train instead. Up to this day, I’ve been on four Erasmus projects, and each time, that small nudge toward ‘green travel’ made me stop and think:  “Is offering almost €100 more than the normal travel budget per person really worth it

Stanford Climate Week   2025 arrived with 40+ events and 1 mission as ambitious as it was clear: to turn climate ambition into concrete, scalable action. From October 20–26, the university transformed into a hub of dialogue, collaboration, and bold ideas, uniting students, researchers, investors, and founders around one question: how do we build the future we need, fast enough? As a freshman at Stanford University, I made it my goal to attend as many events as possible and im

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