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Last night, I posted about Dartmouth’s pilot energy usage program, which depicts a residence hall’s current energy usage with an animated display of a polar bear. Green Lite Dartmouth passed out energy-efficient light bulbs and power strips at the program’s launch yesterday.  Yesterday, Brown University kicked off a conference on environmental sustainability called Brown is Green. From the Brown Daily Herald:

At 2:30 p.m., former president of the Sierra Club and Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi S. Adam Werbach ‘95 will deliver an address on environmental leadership. Werbach dropped jaws at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in 2004 by declaring environmentalism dead. At the same venue earlier this month, he unveiled a new perspective for understanding and achieving environmental sustainability that he says goes beyond the popular concept of “green” to “blue.”

[...]Later in the afternoon, Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider will deliver a lecture titled “The World Around Us: Global Environmental Change.” Schneider has served in a number of environmental policy advisory positions and has for decades advocated sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as a strategy for curbing global warming. He has published numerous books on the topics of global warming, climate change policy and environmental biology.

Ira Magaziner ‘69 P’06 P’07 P’10, chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, will deliver this evening’s keynote address, titled “Turning Words into Action.” Immediately afterwards, a panel of state legislators will respond to Magaziner’s talk. The day’s events will conclude with a screening of the film “Into the Wild” on the Main Green. The conference will continue Saturday with several panels on sustainable design, green business and sustainability in Rhode Island, and will conclude with a dinner featuring locally grown foods.

And my dear alma mater has also made a philanthropic move by implementing a program called PennMoves. Capitalizing upon the hundreds of items left behind in college dorm rooms after students have moved out, PennMoves will collect the still-usable items and distribute them among 15 different charity organizations in the West Philadelphia area. From the Daily Pennsylvanian:

“It’s amazing what students leave behind and every year. We see perfectly usable stuff so this is a great [opportunity],” said Business Services spokeswoman Barbara Lea-Kruger. 

Students will be able to put items for donation in boxes that will be placed in all of the College Houses as well as several off-campus drop-off centers. The boxes will be available during the month of May. [...]   While PennMoves expects to receive everything from furniture and printers to refrigerators, even basic goods like food will be welcome.