"Green Valley" Sustainability

In conjunction with the Green Valley Development (formerly FEDC), the University of Arkansas Technology Development Foundation (UATDF) and the University of Arkansas Applied Sustainability Center, Green Valley's vision is to foster collaboration and commercialization of sustainability technology. Click on link for marketing piece from the AR Research and Technology Park.

October, 2007 Washington Post article - "Green Valley In Wal-Mart's Back Yard - Start-Ups Set Out to Sustain Giant's Eco-Friendly Focus"

A wave of start-ups developing the technology to help suppliers prove their green credentials has swept into this sleepy college town, half an hour from the company's headquarters in Bentonville.

GREEN VALLEY NETWORK - Connecting Sustainability's Innovators

www.greenvalleynetwork.org is a non-profit coalition that fosters collaboration and commercialization of sustainability technology. Join to find, analyze, distribute, develop, and capitalize practical sustainability technology. We envision a better world as a result of quicker application of sustainable business practices, and we want to help bring the people, ideas, and resources together to facilitate advancement.

University of Arkansas Launches 2008 Campuswide Sustainability Initiative

The Environmental Stewardship Mission initially identifies a dozen broad sustainability categories that cover issues ranging from the university's use of energy and water, to the food served on campus, to ways academic and research resources can be used to promote and develop sustainable practices. Sustainability is also envisioned to become an element of most course curricula over the next few years and potentially a new evaluation factor in our future investment strategies. The mission will serve as a blueprint to coordinate efforts by all the groups on campus that are working to address an already wide but still growing spectrum of sustainability issues.

Wal-Mart Foundation Gives $1.5 Million to Fund Applied Sustainability Center. Click on link below for August 29, 2007 press release:

The center will be an umbrella organization and a clearinghouse for ideas to help businesses incorporate sustainability into best practices that will increase long-term profitability and at the same time benefit society.

Green Building Initiative provides complimentary use of Green Globes, making University of Arkansas first school in country to use system in design, construction. For full story, click on link below:

"We applaud the University of Arkansas and the members of its [Facilities Management] group for taking a leadership role in making our country's academic institutions more sustainable," said Ward Hubbell, executive director of the Global Building Initiative. "Their policies set an example that we hope universities across the country will follow with their own sustainable initiatives." "This support from the Green Building Initiative is a wonderful development that will help the University of Arkansas take on an even greater national leadership role in the broad application of green design techniques in our campus facilities," said UA Chancellor John A. White. "As a university, we have a responsibility to incorporate principles of sustainability throughout our curricula and, through research, advance the state of knowledge regarding sustainability principles and practices. Our emphasis on green buildings is not only good for the environment, but it's also supportive of renewable products and other materials produced in Arkansas. Most importantly, we must apply principles of sustainability in everything we do."

Supporting the UA's effort to become a model for a sustainable university is one of the recommendations in the "Raising the Bar" report of the 2010 Commission. Visit the university's sustainability website linked below: