The Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise will work with developers of the world's largest Ferris wheel to create a high-tech expo on innovation and sustainability. (Oct. 1, 2012)
Symposium to showcase program that trained students to use interdisciplinary approaches to food systems and agriculture issues that contribute to extreme poverty.
A new website gives growers and consumers up-to-date information on research about the Swede midge, which in insect whose infestations can destroy cruciferous vegetables. (Sept. 8, 2010)
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.
The discovery of the aggressive hydrilla plant in upstate in Cayuga Inlet by Cornell staff is the first detection of the invasive plant in upstate New York. (Aug. 17, 2011)
Professor Emeritus Tony Ingraffea explained a statewide green energy plan in his keynote address at the President’s Sustainable Campus Committee annual summit Nov. 18, and winners of the Cornell University Partners in Sustainability Award were announced.
Cut-out, smackdown, payback, tune-in and turn-off: It’s time for “Think Big, Live Green,” a major energy conservation and sustainability campaign being launched Sept. 4 by Cornell’s College of Engineering.
Rendering some of the world’s toxic soils moot, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell researchers are learning to grow stress-tolerant crops on formerly non-farmable land.