Agnes Scott College has become the first educational institution to bar idling vehicles on campus, the private Decatur college for women announced today. Trucks and service vehicles on campus will now be required to turn off their engines while making deliveries. “No Idle Zone” signs will be placed in the three areas where service and delivery [...]

From Susan Kidd, director of sustainability at Agnes Scott College, via inDecatur: David Orr, a pioneer of the campus sustainability movement, returns to Agnes Scott College to speak on “Down to the Wire: Education in a Hotter Time.” His lecture is set for Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Presser Hall’s Gaines Chapel. Orr, a former faculty [...]