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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.

2009-2010 Academic Year

• CWES Taking the Lead on Sustainability
• CLUE's "Wisconsin Land Use Megatrends: Climate Change"
• Wisconsin Student Leaders to Present Environmental Projects at Conference
• UWSP Bringing 'Green' to the Table
• Student, Faculty and Staff Members Help Showcase Local Food Movement at Food Fair
• Research Summit to be Held at Treehaven
• Lecture to Reveal the Bizarre World Interactions Between Bugs, Plants and Fungi
• Treehaven First Tree Farm in Wisconsin Receives 50-Year Recertification
• South African Environmental Educator to Speak at UWSP
• UWSP Looks to Lessen Electronic Waste
• Water Quality Pamphlet Available
• Earth Week Events at UWSP Celebrate Earth Day's 40th
• Groundbreaking for Sustainable Military Science Facility at UWSP on Earth Day
• Wisconsin Environmental Education Board Awards Grants

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