Environment and sustainability Archives

Environment and sustainability

Clark is first Mass. school to commit to ‘real food’ purchasing

Clark University President David Angel has signed a pledge that the university will have 20 percent “real food” by 2020. This commitment is part of a national campaign coordinated by the Real Food Challenge, an organization that works with colleges and universities across the country to shift spending in cafeterias toward more locally produced, sustainably grown, humane,…
What’s eating Mark Bittman?

The food editorialist, Clark class of ’71, offers a sane response to an American diet flirting with madness
Charged up: Clark event heralds area’s first EV plug-in stations

The mood outside the Lasry Center for Bioscience was electric, with good reason. A number of electric vehicles (EVs) — the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi MiEV, and BMW ActiveE — were on display to help celebrate the debut of a new charging station where EV owners can “plug in.” The April 2 event…
Sustainability lessons in London

When Ann Salerno ’13, a double major in Global Environmental Studies and Art History, asked for more responsibility during her study abroad internship in London, she ended up writing a constitution for a community gardening group. Learn more about LEEP.