Chinquapin Environmental Studies

How bacteria have eaten most of the oil from the oil spill already.

Becoming sustainable with water collection

How to raise veggies in a small space

I'm not going to lie, this is pretty sexxxy!

This is a fun activity that tests if you know how much water we use for different things.

Here's a University we could actually go to and learn from more hands on. Maybe you've heard of it, Rice University.

Clean Houston is an organization that also promote sustainability.

These architects have work together to create sustainable homes.

This article is about some research being done at MIT to see how it might be possible to use microbes lining cow intestines to break down cellulose and lignin into sugar and make fuel from that. Such compounds are found in grass and wood chips, consequently MIT also looked into termites but they proved to be too small to generate any significant data.

This research sounds amazing but I couldn't help but looking at the poor cow. Part of what sustainability is about is helping the environment and that includes animals. Even though this would be awesome for the atmosphere, they require a lot of enzymes for this fuel to work. This means more cows I believe, correct me if I'm wrong.

Well yea, poor cows, but we would have to think that there are tons of cow guts that I'm sure that is just thrown away. It sounds gross but might as well use what is being thrown away. One thing that came to my mind was that in the long run if Chinquapin decides to also have hows that we would eat, what better than use the guts from them. It won't be much but I'm sure that we could also contact the slaughter house (and I'm pretty sure they kill a good number of cows per day).

To volunteer for working on the garden or to find out more about the project, contact Biology Professor, Adam Kay.

Michael Wesch explains what's up with Web 2.0

Michael Wesch explaining how he uses Web 2.0

This is a Houston organization that promotes sustainability in all senses.

Houston gives an options of how to save electricity.

Group in California.

Houston's way of trying to keep the air clean by making sure that our cars don't pollute the air too much.

I don't know what the Roman symbol mean, but I think they represent the hours in a day.

Michelle found this school that she thinks is really good. Check it out!

Indeed, Lovett's new Strategic Plan Lovett calls for us to pursue environmental sustainability and practice environmental stewardship in carrying out the plan's goals. Beyond having a positive effect on the environment, Lovett students are learning from their surroundings, practicing sustainability, and making respect for the environment second nature.

This website lists the grades that colleges receive for their sustainability on campus.

This is more research. At UC Berkley, they found a way to engineer bacteria that make fuel such as diesel by themselves. Though the research is still going on to make it more productive.

This sounds very interesting but how large scale do you think it could become?