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Cleaning the Air with Roof Tiles

Posted by tvernile on Wednesday, 04 June 2014 in Sustainable Development

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A team of University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering students created a roof tile coating that when applied to an average-sized residential roof breaks down the same amount of smog-causing nitrogen oxides per year as a car dri...

Learn to make documentaries that make a difference.

Posted by emily@mediamakingchange.org on Saturday, 05 April 2014 in Arts and Entertainment

Each summer, the Media Institute for Social Change hosts a dozen college students and teaches them how to produce engaging and effective radio and film documentaries. Students come from across the country, from schools like Princeton, St. Olaf, Colby, Macalester, Whitman, and Reed, to name just a fe...

Students Raise Awareness About Plastic Bags

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

The amount of litter around the community raised concerns for Stacey Jambura's Lowell Elementary School students. But its potential impacts on the environment --- including the world's oceans --- is what spurred them to action. Jambura's 13 third- through fifth-grade expanded learning prog...