Students practice green living at new 'sustainable cooperative' on campus

By Julia Ferrante

LEWISBURG, Pa. - About once a week, Elizabeth McCarthy scoops out bits of discarded orange peel, broccoli, tomatoes, egg shells, coffee grounds and other compostable items from a large plastic bin kept on the porch of her residence hall.

http://www.bucknell.edu/x56890.xml

Urban Stewards: the creation of Neighborhood Maintenance Districts. An Ecosystem Services Proposal for cities.

I'm digging this idea, gotta make it solidarity economy tho, worker coop's not poor paying jobs.

Cities across the country are struggling to provide public services in this time of economic difficulty. While there is growing recognition of the potential environmental improvements that could be provided by the use of ecosystem services in cities -- services like trees, infiltration zones, climate appropriate landscaping and so forth -- paying for the requisite transformation of the urban fabric and for its subsequent maintenance is a challenge.

problem with public private partnerships

Hello, PlanNYC? 

And CUNY?

http://www.svherald.com/content/2009/10/28/advanced-energy-programs-ohio-universities

And where is high ed is all this? CUNY?

China leaving US behind in green energy - The Boston Globe