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Students at the University of California Davis Hybrid Vehicle Research Center have been creating plug-in hybrids for national competitions for some time. "Team Fate" members Jungers and Kaufman describe how they "gut" the drive train of a standard vehicle, replacing it with an electric motor, a bank of batteries, continuously variable transmission, and some smart electronics. The resulting vehicle runs on electricity, assisted by a much smaller flex-fuel internal combustion engine only when needed.

FreshBrain provides students with opportunities to become environmentally conscious. Online projects, activities, and contests using open-source software and with trained advisors. Any high school students, parents, or educators should check it out. The best part is that it is 501(c)(3) non-profit and totally free!

Prince Georges County Maryland borders the District of Columbia and is one of the largest and wealthiest Counties in the State of Maryland.  With hundreds of public school, the amount of recyclables is in the tons/week.  Yet, there is not recycling anywhere to be found at the schools and the kids have taken notice.  Students at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville Md, formed an enviornmental task force and put out a petition to get recycling in their schools.

This university has a special program, called the Nelson Mandela extranet. In this program, Students go back to their communities and teach them about HIV/AIDS , bio-intensive farming, and money management.

An old Native American proverb says, "We don't inherit the land from our grandparents, we borrow it from our children." A concept that is teaching some Oklahoma students the value of marketing a cleaner environment.

The students expected to be leading the green revolution prefer making green over being green. That is according to a study which surveyed 527 MBA students at 12 top-ranked international business schools where only 34% of the students viewed a company's environmental policy as an "extremely" or "very important" factor in selecting an employer.

MIT student cyclists are using pedal power to run laptops and supercomputers in two different challenges.

After three-years of competing in the “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” challenge, a team from the University of Mississippi has been dubbed the victors. The competition, which is sponsored by General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy, asked students throughout the U.S. to re-engineer a crossover sport utility vehicle that minimizes energy consumption, emissions and greenhouse gases.

Article about Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition. This organization is putting together a youth organized summit September 28th-30th, 2007 in partnership with the Campus Climate Challenge. Register for the conference here: http://www.ssc.org/involved/registrationsup_mz.php?e=106

US website Chegg.com provides a revolutionary online textbook rental service, offering over two million used books and 800,000 new book titles for students to rent, rather than buy. Now they have announced the launch of a new program - “Chegg for Trees” that will ensure that a tree is planted in a needy area every time a textbook is rented via the Textbookflix.com service. Chegg is delivering this program in partnership with the newly founded Eco-Libris, an organization that seeks to balance out the trees cut down for the production of books by planting trees in developing countries.

Of Course, Safety Is A High Priority, And The Greenest Ways Are Also The Safest Ways. Ever Heard Of A “Walking School Bus”?