Campus Green Builder

By Marya McQuirter, PhD
chocolate & arugula

Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge
Photo Credit: Walmart and Net Impact

I have two resources to share:

1. Home Depot's Retool Your School program

Home Depot has allocated $150,000 for its Retool Your School program available solely to HBCUs. Home Depot will give one grant of $50,000 and 10 grants of $10,000 each. Interested administrators must apply online by 15 March 2010. Click here for more information.
 

2. Walmart's Better Living Business Plan Challenge

Walmart's annual competition, Better Living Business Plan Challenge, offers U.S. colleges and universities the opportunity to invent sustainable business products or develop sustainable business solutions and present them to a panel. The winning institution will receive $20,000 toward their project.

Claflin University and Howard University participated in the 2010 challenge. Regional competitions were held over the past few weeks and the final competition will take place April 2010 in Arkansas.

Click here for more information.

Marya McQuirter, PhD is a sustainability consultant, scholar and blogger based in Washington, DC. She works with universities, businesses and non-profits on researching, writing and marketing their sustainability portfolios. She also lectures widely on sustainability and writes about sustainability on her blog, chocolate & arugula.