Green Business of the year!

Guess who is Bellingham's Green Business of the Year, 2014?  Oh, you guessed.

State of the Birds 2014

Some of the country's most important conservation groups have just put out a report on the State of the Birds.  Read it here.

Power Down Reminder

Just sharing a nice reminder from Western's Office of Sustainability about "powering down" before the winter break!

Sustainable Mongolia... at Western!

This week the Seattle Times had an article about President Shepard and others from Western visiting China and Mongolia to improve our ties there.  

One of the group was Dean of Libraries Mark Greenberg, and one reason for that is that Western has the  the largest collection of Mongolian texts in North America.  Really!  You can read all about it - and the amazing gifts and hard work that made it possible - here.

But that got me wondering: do any of our 12,000+ titles about Mongolia talk about sustainability? Yup.  Here are some examples, all in English.

• Account(ing)/(ability) democratising the environmental impact assessment in Mongolian mining
• An economic analysis of the environmental impacts of livestock grazing in Mongolia
• Economics of environment and sustainable development
• The Mongolian Ecosystem Network Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes
• Mongolian traditional foods for sustainable diet.
• Warming up in Mongolia.  (Video)