Lipscomb Goes Green

 
Green Honors
    
 Photo: (l-r) Lipscomb University President Dr. Randolph Lowry; Deputy Governor John Morgan; TDEC Commissioner Jim Fyke; Dr. Kent Gallaher, Lipscomb University;  Dr. Susan Galbreath, Lipscomb University; Danny Taylor, Lipscomb University; Tom Wood, Lipscomb University; TDEC Deputy Commissioner Paul Sloan.
 
Lipscomb University received the 2009 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Green Schools - Higher Education. 
Lipscomb is the first university in Tennessee to have a detailed academic curriculum focused on sustainability. Continued...
 
 
Green Academics
 
New master’s degree offered in fall 2009
Lipscomb University’s Institute of Sustainable Practice announces the debut of the new Master’s of Science in Sustainability, offering graduate-level courses in specialties such as food and nutrition, building design, site design and landscape and energy. The new program will begin offering courses in the fall semester 2009. More….
 
  
Green Construction
 
New parking garage brought Easy Pass and bus stop with it
A new parking garage of 300 spaces will open in just weeks, but along with the garage Lipscomb also added a covered bus stop and participation in the Metro Transportation Department’s Easy Pass program, allowing students, faculty and staff (anyone with a Lipscomb I.D.) to ride the bus for free, using their campus I.D. card.
 
More on LEED construction on campus
More on green construction on campus
 
  
Green Campus
 
Holidays at Lipscomb more “green” than red
Christmas 2008 on the Lipscomb campus was a little more green than red this year, as the university debuted power-saving LED lights at the annual Lighting of the Green on Dec. 2. In addition, a batch of LED floodlights was used to light every building on campus purple during February’s Alumni Weekend. More…
 
  
Green Community
 
Lipscomb spotlights sustainability in business world with Expo, Summit
The first two days of the second annual Green Business and Living Summit and Expo were a hit with green businesspeople and consumers who came together to support sustainable ways of making money and living life. More…
 
 
Green K-12
  
Photo: (back l-r) Dr. Mike Hammond, David Lipscomb Campus School Headmaster;  Deputy Governor John Morgan; Ginger Reasonover, David Lipscomb Elementary School; TDEC Commissioner Jim Fyke;  Sharon Farmer,  David Lipscomb Elementary School Principal; TDEC Deputy Commissioner Paul Sloan;  (front l-r) Kennedy Winrow, 3rd grade student; Abigail McQueen, kindergarten student; Becky Collins, David Lipscomb Elementary School.
 
David Lipscomb elementary earns top “Green School” status
After a yearlong process, David Lipscomb Elementary school is only the third school in the state, and the first private school, to earn the top environmental status of “Green School Performer,” from the Tennessee Pollution Prevention Partnership. Continued... 
 
Campus school students decorate Green Expo with innovative green art
The Green Expo, April 2-4, not only explored the business side of the green movement, it also included a wonderful display of green art, created by the David Lipscomb Campus School and Belmont University art students. More…