Harvard professor Joel Schwartz drew a crowd of over 100 to the Danforth University Center Thursday evening as he stressed the impact climate change would have on public health.

Students from Washington University’s environmental and sustainability groups came together outside the Danforth University Center to educate their classmates about current environmental problems and opportunities facing their generation.

Four Washington University undergraduates and two graduate students will travel to Lima, Peru to attend the 2014 United Nations Climate Change conference between Dec. 1 and Dec. 12.

Transferring the tax burden onto the small, progressive part of our society that owns electric cars or hybrids is illogical and ineffective. The green car tax won’t raise enough money to make back the money lost by normal drivers and it will stunt growth of the fledgling industry.

Last Thursday, I stood alongside Washington University students in protest. The demonstration targeted Bank of America’s financing of the coal industry; specifically, those corporations engaged in the hazardous and invasive practices of mountaintop coal removal mining in the Appalachian Mountains. Our protest took the form of two separate demonstrations.

Biology Professor Ursula Goodenough’s year-and-a-half-long experience as a science writer for NPR’s 13.7 blog gave her unique insight into how atmospheric climate change is debated in the blogosphere. Goodenough, a professor of cell and molecular biology at Washington University, started the 13.7 blog with a colleague from the University of Rochester.

[media-credit name="Courtesy of Red Redemption Ltd." align="alignright" width="300"][/media-credit][rating stars=4.5]Platform: PC I’ve been playing “Fate of the World,” a global simulation game where you try to save Earth from certain destruction.

Eleven Washington University students and eleven Fudan University students will participate at the U.S. – China Student International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainability in November. Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE) is the organizer of the Conference. The students will interact with each other throughout the six-day event, participating in lectures, discussion panels with experts and social events.

Over the weekend of Fall Break, I was part of a group from Wash. U. that attended the Missouri Powershift Summit, an environmental conference for students from around the state.