College of the Atlantic’s environmental activism group Earth in Brackets and Mount Desert Island High School’s Eco Team join up to bring the annual Fridays for Future strike to Bar Harbor.
College of the Atlantic’s new foothold in Northeast Harbor, featuring both residential and retail space, comprises apartments for 15 students, a staff/faculty residence, and, at sidewalk level, the Salt Market, a project of COA alumna Maude Kusserow ’15.
Tess Moore ’23 plans and implements a novel independent study to take advantage of an accidental catch and promote important shark research.
Tiny College of the Atlantic has topped Princeton Review’s list of the country’s greenest colleges for the past six years. Here’s how its dining program fits into that success.
Mount Desert Island’s volcanic history may well be in the past, but a new mountain just popped up last summer on the COA campus. The accidental result of building construction, the “mountain” quickly became a favorite spot on campus, both as a classroom and recreation area.
A collection of the most popular Stanford Social Innovation Review articles of 2017 highlighting environmental issues and climate change innovation features a piece on the Abundance Cycle business framework by COA sustainable business guru Jay Friedlander.
Instead of just pushing students to recycle and take shorter showers or use just one paper towel here and there, a number of schools have made deeper commitments to being green — including plans to cut down fossil fuel usage, increase spending on local and organic food and teach about sustainability.
U.S. colleges and universities are increasingly deploying solar arrays and other forms of renewable energy. At College of the Atlantic, one focus is on teaching students how to participate in local, renewable energy economies, from the ground up.