BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/ The quest for a sustainable energy supply has been, and continues to be a great challenge. The renewable energy sources will be the focal point of the EESC’s open day to be held on Saturday 7th May.

The event will take place in Saturday 7th May 2011, between 10am - 6pm in Brussels in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

LOUISVILLE, UNITED STATES/ Never is child’s curiosity stronger or the resulting questions more difficult to answer than when a natural disaster strikes.

Following the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the National Center for FamilyLiteracy, NCFL, is making special lessons available at its Wonderopolis.org website and on its homepage.

WINSTON SALEM, USA/ Even though students today are more concerned than ever about the environment, during the transition to college, those ideals often go by the wayside. On many campuses, the opening of school can be a very wasteful time. Cardboard boxes, Styrofoam packing materials, and heaps of unanticipated duplicates end up in huge piles of trash outside residence halls and apartments – not a very sustainable way to start the year.

Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, director of sustainability at Wake Forest University, offers these simple suggestions to achieve a “greener” move-in by doing more with less. Here are 10 ways to make your school greener.

Geneva-Switzerland/ Green Cross International (GCI) on Africa Day announced the extension of the Smart Water for Green Schools project to four more schools in Ghana. This follows a successful pilot phase at the Al-Iman Primary School in the Bong Ahafo Region. The project extension to the additional schools will provide 2,000 school children and some 70teachers in the five communities with access to water and better sanitation, benefiting a local population of 10,500. 

“It is the overwhelmingly positive feedback from the pilot communities that has ensured that the project is extended. The Smart Water for Green Schools project is vital to the health and livelihood of communities in Ghana because of our diminishing water tables and polluted water sources,” said Mubarick Masawudu, President and CEO of Green Cross Ghana. “The water collected in the harvesting systems is often the only source of clean water in the community,” he said.

Toronto-Canada/ A professor of women’s studies at Washington State University (WSU), Noël Sturgeon will lecture and conduct research in York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) in the fall 2010 term after being awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Lectureship. 

Sturgeon’s internationally known research on the relationship between environmental and social justice movements, her planned collaborative research with York faculty and her graduate course on environmental justice cultural studies qualified her for the award.

Washington D.C.-USA/ April 19, 2010– In order to highlight the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Earth Day Network and University of Phoenix today announced a partnership to provide a greener future for America’s youth by “greening” 10 schools across the country with solar panel installations.

The Network and the University worked together to identify the following 10 schools across the United States that would benefit greatly from the donations and they are: James Lick High School (San Jose, Calif.), Jefferson High School (Portland, Ore.), Raymond S. Kellis High School (Glendale, Ariz.), New Vista High School (Boulder, Colo.), Northwest Halifax High School (Littleton, N.C.), Henderson High School (West Chester, Pa.), Rachel Carson Middle School (Herndon, Va.), Weatherbee Elementary School (Hampden, Maine), Lowell Elementary School (Duluth, Minn.), and Evergreen Charter School (Asheville, N.C.).

Wesseling-Germany/ These days Internet presents hundreds of opportunities and possibilities, one of them is to learn. The E-learning is a global chance to get what you need without moving from your country or home with high quality levels, where contents are intended to promote new educational fields.

Everytime you go to an E-learning center, try to find the best one that fits to your interests and capacities, in order to avoid desertion or interest failure. When you have found your center, try to interact the most to win the more.

Newswise — A student-rungroup called Green Campus Enterprise has determined that their campus communityat MichiganTechnological Universityproduces greenhouse gases equal to about 73,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. That'sabout 10 tons for every student and employee on campus, nearly half of itproduced by power generation.