The Georgia Museum of Art is the newest building on campus to become LEED certified. The museum, which opened its expanded and remodeled building on Jan. 29, 2011, received LEED Gold certification last week — the second highest rating a building can receive. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a green [...]

Editor’s Note: Around this time of the year, discussions of budget cuts and tuition increases circle the University. The Red & Black is taking a look at the University as a house and its bills. This is the second installment of the series. For the University’s coal and natural gas consumption, the amount consumed outweighs the purchase [...]

Athens-Clarke County and the University will participate in a tornado drill this Wednesday, Feb. 8, in recognition of the high tornado activity experienced during the past year. This drill will be the main event of Severe Weather Awareness Week, a state-wide initiative which will take place from Monday to Friday. Between 9 and 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday [...]

From fighting coal at the University to negotiating for climate change in South Africa, Heather Hatzenbuhler has become a sort of environmental ambassador. While at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference as a student delegate, the environment economics and management major had the opportunity to interact with students, leaders and representatives from [...]

Although the popular Woodlake community is determined to keep its scenic view free from damage, the methods the Flats area of the property are using to eliminate the beavers chewing down the trees has caused concern amongst some residents. “The particular traps that we think they’re using are inhumane and cruel. My husband has shown [...]

The Newcomers’ home is green — but not on the outside. Quint Newcomer, director of the University’s campus in Costa Rica, and his wife Lori Bork Newcomer, who runs Bork Architectural Design and teaches adjunct in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, have built their Athens home with a “holistic” mindset. This holistic approach has [...]

The 8-foot radar dish attached to the truck in the University intramural fields this afternoon was not a prop for another apocalyptic climate change movie – it is a recent invention by a professor. Peter Ray, a professor of meteorology from Florida State University, brought his ”Seminole Hurricane Hunter,” a mobile Doppler radar, to the University on Monday [...]

Students may be able to make campus a little greener thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Office of Sustainability. The grant, which is funded by the $3 green fee, allows for six sustainable projects to enhance the University’s efforts in fostering an environmentally friendly institution. The office received 21 student grant applications in December [...]

The University will host a daylong conference on international energy security on Feb. 3, according to an Associated Press report. The meeting will discuss issues such as international energy governance, regulatory law for renewable energy, nuclear safety law and nuclear waste legal regimes, according to the AP. It will also include an address from the [...]

The weekend is often a time to let loose for children, but this Saturday, Athens families will have the opportunity to unleash their energy in a new kind of playground — The Georgia Museum of Art. The Museum is hosting a Family Day this Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in honor of Michelle Obama’s Let’s [...]