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UWSP University Relations and Communications reports on UWSP’s environmental actions. UWSP has also been featured in other news sources for its sustainable actions.

Chancellor Nook testing out the Pedal Power Energy Bike during Energy Awareness month in October.

UWSP in the News for Green Research and Initiatives

• Climate change addressed at summit (Green Bay Press Gazette, December 13, 2008)
• Conserving and preserving in western Maine, one parcel at a time (Sun Journal, November 30, 2008)
• 'Green' building will replace residence hall (Stevens Point Journal, November 24, 2008)
• UWPS gets environmental funding (The Badger Herald, November 17, 2008)
• Green Room displays eco-friendly dorm (Marshfield News Herald, October 4, 2008)
• UWSP moves ahead in green research (Stevens Point Journal, September 26, 2008)
• Event to highlight UWSP "green" efforts, leadership (Stevens Point Journal, September 23, 2008)
• Hung over from the ethanol party (JSOnline, September 14, 2008)
• Is biomass harvesting sustainable? (Biomass Magazine, September 2008)

2008-2009 Academic Year

• Sixteen Wisconsin colleges and universities compete in RecycleMania 2009
• Earth Week event at UW-Stevens Point
• Wisconsin's number one sustainability campus moving to lessen electronic waste
• Researchers Guay and Singsaas receive $200,000 for ongoing biofuels research
• Solin speaks at nation's first-ever Green Charter School Network conference
• UWSP receives another $2 million for environmental education training
• Wetlands professor from the Netherlands to speak at UWSP
• Wisconsin students present energy projects at Governor's High School Conference
• One of world's top environmental experts to give address at UW-Stevens Point
• Wisconsin Environmental Education Board announces grant program
• Biofuels researcher Singsaas to speak at first-ever Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative
• Habitat for Humanity goes green
• National energy expert to discuss oil addiction
• An all-day sustainability event, "UWSP-Purple, Gold, and Green," will be held on campus Oct. 3
• Jeremy Solin, LEAF forestry education, will give a talk on nature deficit disorder on Sept. 24
• UWSP will co-host a historic climate change summit on Dec. 12

• Eric Singsaas, biology and forestry, is researching the production of noncarcinogenic oil substitutes
• An alumni couple have donated 12 trees to the campus
• The CNR and L&S fall colloquium series will center on energy and natural resources beginning Sept. 26
• The Midwest Environmental Education Conference will be held Oct. 18-20
• A UWSP alumna will give a lecture on climate change on Oct. 12
• Don Guay, paper science and engineering, won a grant to research the sugar liberation process for the production of biofuels
• Galen Fulford, an ecological engineer, will speak on stewardship at UWSP on Nov. 13
• The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board is seeking grant proposals for 2008-2009
• Michael Dombeck, natural resources, will testify before the U.S. Senate on mining law
• UWSP's SGA has passed legislation to support the use of 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper
• UWSP is offering a workshop on proper tree selection and planting on April 12
• A nature-inspired health certificate program will be offered at UWSP April 18
• A forest management workshop will be offered March 15
• UWSP will celebrate Earth Week April 21-25
• Michael Dombeck, natural resources, has co-written a book about conservation nonprofit organizations
• The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board at UWSP has awarded more than $495,000 in grants
• UWSP's Sustainability Task Force provides direction for the campus' sustainability efforts
• UWSP residence hall energy is now 53 percent from green, renewable sources
• Don Guay, paper science and engineering, earned a grant to continue his biofuel research

• Governor James Doyle has announced UWSP as one of four UW campuses to become energy independent in five years
• The CNR fall colloquium, focusing on climate change, begins Wed., Sept. 27
• The GEM Critical Issues International Seminar begins again Tues., Oct. 3
• GEM to host international watershed seminar Sept. 19 - Oct. 9
• KEEP experts are working with energy experts in East Asia
• UWSP is hosting a bioenergy and biofuels forum on Sat., Sept. 9
• Wisconsin Environmental Education Board at UWSP now seeking grant proposals
• A workshop on renewable energy will be held at UWSP on Sat., Oct. 14
• Permaculture expert Darren Doherty will teach a GEM course at UWSP this fall
• PRSSA student group launch public information campaign to encourage a campus cleanup
• A noted zoologist will present the CNR colloquium Wed., Nov. 29
• The 2006 Governor's High School Conference will be held Nov. 15, hosted by WCEE at UWSP
• Screenings of two environmental films will be held Nov. 12 and 16
• GEM continues its Critical Issues Series with a lecture by permiculturist Darren Doherty on Tues., Nov.14
• CWES will offer a preschool forest exploration program March 17
• The first of a series of colloquiums on climate change will be held Feb. 28
• Jennie Lane, KEEP, has won the Aldo Leopold Award for service in energy education
• UWSP received more than $1.6 million for EETAP from the Environmental Protection Agency
• An ecologist from India will speak about rural sustainability in a GEM Critical Issues Seminar on April 3
• The Campus Consciousness Tour is coming to UWSP May 1
• Michael Dombeck, CNR, is receiving an honorary degree from Haverford College
• The climate change colloquium series continues April 25
• GEM will host Professor Ernesto Castenada for a seminar on May 1
• Earth Week, April 22-27, will be marked at UWSP with several activities
• Four Mexican students studied at UWSP in June through the Globabl Environmental Management Education Center
• Chancellor Linda Bunnell joined other higher education institutions in signing a climate change commitment
• The Midwest Environmental Education Convention will be held at UWSP Oct. 18-20