This is especially hard for college students, who already have a hard enough time affording to pay for anything!

But mechanical engineer students at the University of Central Florida have discovered a new way to take used fryer grease from a Chick-fil-A restaurant...

We think it has something to do with its campus sustainability program called George Goes Green, which encourages everyone on campus to do something to preserve the environment...

It’s not hard to see why college students are notorious for accumulating tons of trash both in and out of their dorm rooms.

There wasn’t a week that went by when I was in college that I didn’t see fast-food containers, packets of ketchup, empty paper towel rolls, soda cans, half-empty bags of Doritos, plastic CD wrappers or Chinese take-out containers lying in random piles in someone’s room...

They have all been recognized as top college sustainability leaders by the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card, which is issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute...

Ripon College, a small liberal arts school of 1,000 students located about an hour and a half from downtown Milwaukee, is providing a great incentive to incoming freshmen: if they sign a pledge not to bring a car on campus for the entire semester, they’ll get a brand spanking new mountain bike!

This new program is called Velorution, which is...

However, what was meant to make an environmental impact only ended up impacting on the floor...

• Procrastinate writing a paper
• Fall asleep in your dorm room or in the library researching that paper
• Stay up late the night before typing the paper
• Run out of ink printing the final copy of the paper (and it’s due in 15 minutes)