Last weekend, dozens of Cornellians and Ithaca College students joined 10,000 other young Americans in D.C. for Power Shift 2011 — a conference geared towards environmental activism. Forty-one years after the first Earth Day, the conference’s turnout and growing youth support for the environmental movement helped restore some faith in our generation’s ability to care about more than our Facebook news feeds. 

Channeling the energy of its founders, KyotoNOW! turns ten - spending the last decade active in environmental issues.

Lord John Krebs, the principal of the Jesus College of Oxford University, gave a lecture on Monday about the compromises to growth that the United Kingdom must make to reduce carbon emissions. 

In a recent lecture, four speakers commented on the scientific, social and economic sides of the “green” energy debate.  They emphasized that green energy development affects many diverse aspects of the population.

After four decades, environmental activism at Cornell has shifted from education to direct action.

Environmentalism abounds on Earth Day. But being in tune with your environmental responsibilities is a year-round process.

Daze celebrates Earth Day (the other green holiday in April) with a look at the Seven Natural Wonders of Ithaca.

Students from approximately 20 different campus sustainability organizations set up tables on Ho Plaza yesterday, offering information, educational activities and free giveaways to a large congregation of passing students and staff in honor of Earth Day.