Omaha, Neb., plans to replace Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. (Wikimedia Commons photo by John Workman)

The stadium in which the College World Series has been played since 1950 — a venue that our colleague Brad Wolverton calls “one of the coolest settings of any facility in all college sports” — will be replaced in 2010.

Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, in Omaha, Neb., opened in 1948 as the...

Folsom Field will become the first major stadium with a zero-waste policy, according to U. of Colorado at Boulder officials. (Wikimedia Commons image by MECU)

The University of Colorado at Boulder will adopt a zero-waste policy for Folsom Field, its football stadium, university officials announced today. The university will also invest in local carbon-offset programs and renewable-energy efforts to match stadium-related carbon emissions and those created by the football team’s travel, the officials said.

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Harvard University’s big art-museum overhaul will entail demolishing Werner Otto Hall, an addition to the Fogg Art Museum that’s only 17 years old—and that was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, one of the most prominent firms in business today. Now Robert Campbell, the architecture critic for The Boston Globe, has written a fascinating article about Werner Otto Hall for Architectural Record. He says the addition’s problem isn’t that it no longer meets the museum’s needs—the problem is that its walls have rotted from the inside.

Moisture is to blame—but so...

Construction employee killed: A mechanic working for an elevator company was killed Monday morning when he fell five stories down an empty elevator shaft in a new building at the University of Michigan. According to the Ann Arbor News, the man stepped into the shaft in the seven-story addition to the university’s business-school building about 6:30 a.m. The construction site was subsequently closed while officials investigated the death, the second at a construction site on the campus this year.

Making plans in Tempe: Renovations for some of Arizona State University’s older buildings are in the offing, thanks to a $200-million construction fund that is part of a new $1-billion spending plan for Arizona’s three public universities....

Rob Hopkins is a doctoral student at Plymouth University in England and the founder of the Transition movement—the transition he advocates is away from oil and toward self-sufficiency. He is a proponent of the theory of peak oil, which says that oil production will reach a high point, then begin a cruel decline, and he believes the peak is imminent. Most peak oilers are an apocalyptic lot, thinking that the end of oil will lead to some kind of Mad Max future. Mr. Hopkins, by comparison, is incredibly optimistic.

“The change we have seen over the past 100 years will be nothing compared with what we will see over the next 20,” he said over the phone from his home in Totnes, in southwestern England. “It’s an extraordinary time to be alive. I feel really fortunate to be around.”

Through the Transition movement, Mr....