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2012 Energy Storage Symposium
April 18, 2012

The Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy is having their 2012 Energy Storage Symposium May 2nd: 9am – 5pm and May 3rd: 9am – 12pm. Registration is open and available here!. A fossil-fuel free future requires an energy network with vastly improved capacity to store energy. Columbia University's Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy is hosting a 2-day expert and innovator symposium highlighting the importance and dynamism of energy storage technologies. For more information about the Energy Storage Symposium you can visit the event page at http://energy.columbia.edu/?id=riso-cu_sustainable_fuels_conference.

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Earth Week 2012
April 18, 2012

Green Umbrella has compiled a great looking Earth Week with events from several of Columbia's Environmental Student Groups and Departments! The events start Tuesday April 17th with a Green Roof Science Symposium from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm in Diana Center Event Oval @ Barnard College as well as a brownbag discussion titled What Happened with the Gulf Oil Spill? at 1-2pm in International Affairs Building Room 902. On Thursday catch Defining Sustainability: A Few Questions for an Expanding Discipline at 6:30 PM in Lerner 668, along with Climate Finance: Climate Change Policy Loands, A Comparative Perspective at 6 PM – 7:30 PM, Jerome Greene Hall room 103. Events will continue until Wednesday, April 15th! To get more information and to see the entire schedule, visit http://cugreenumbrella.wordpress.com/earth-week-2012/.

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Friday April 20th is "Bike to Campus Day"!
April 17, 2012

Friday, April 20th 2012- “Bike to Campus Day”- Morningside Campus 10am-3pm, Sundial – Butler Plaza Area. Rain or Shine.

Want to escape from the crowds and heat in the subway or the hassles of finding a parking spot? Bike to campus! Bicycling is one of the most healthy, economical, fun and environmentally friendly ways to commute.

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Cathedral Community Cares Clothing Drive 2012
March 20, 2012

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Sustainable Columbia Newsletter
March 7, 2012

Winter 2012 Update on the University’s Environmental Stewardship

As we near the end of winter and look forward to spring, I want to share the latest news of Columbia’s continuing progress toward building an environmentally sustainable university on each of our several campuses. With our recent awards for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for three different construction projects on three different Columbia campuses, the University now has received seven LEED certifications: four Gold awards and one Silver award for the design, construction and operation of entire buildings; and one Gold and one Silver for partial building renovations. Columbia now has LEED-certified buildings on its Morningside, Manhattanville, Medical Center, and Lamont-Doherty campuses. 

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