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From left, zero waste manager Caroline Boone and Luke Carignan, CAS/BS ’25, BA ’25, stand next to one of the Project Move Out pods. Photo by Jeff Watts.

Environment ·

From Trash to Treasure

This May, Project Move Out collected 500 pounds of food and about five tons of clothing from Â鶹ÊÓƵ students.
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Architectural rendering of Meltzer Center for Athletic Performance & the Sports Center Annex

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Meltzer Center Poised to Be Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s First Net Zero Building, but What Is Net Zero?

Â鶹ÊÓƵ achieved carbon neutrality in 2018 and is now moving to further advance our sustainability goals by adding what is expected to become its first Net Zero Energy building to the campus portfolio.
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Glory Iorliam

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Meet Glory Iorliam, CAS Graduate Student Commencement Speaker 2024

Iorliam will deliver graduate student remarks for College of Arts and Sciences at Bender Arena on May 11
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ's first geothermal heat pump system under construction

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Meltzer Center will feature Â鶹ÊÓƵ's first geothermal heat pump system

Construction begins for Â鶹ÊÓƵ's first geothermal heat pump system, as part of Meltzer Center for Athletic Performance
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A seismograph records an earthquake

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Professor MacAvoy on the Science of Earthquakes

After earthquake rattles New Jersey, Professor of Environmental Science Stephen MacAvoy answers our questions about recent earthquakes across the globe
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Protest sign reading "Change the Politics, Not the CLimate"

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Who Are Today's Climate Activists?

SIS professor Dana R. Fisher explores the truth about three of the big myths being told about climate activism and the climate movement today.
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Tim Doud with his Art at Amtrak mural “A Great Public Workâ€

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College Faculty Receive 80 Awards Totaling Over $11 Million in 2023

Faculty awards making impacts on issues at local, national, and global levels
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Energy and water use on campus during winter 2023-24 closure

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Winter Energy Curtailment Efforts Result in Significant Energy and Water Cost Savings

The measurements all have been collected and analyzed and the findings make apparent that Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s annual Winter Energy Curtailment efforts were again an overwhelming success.
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Seventy-five percent of campus waste filters into large containers near Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Sports Center Annex.

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Trace Your Waste

Leave fewer (environmental) footprints behind by following Facility Management’s trash-sorting guidelines.
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This year’s Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, running now through March 23, will tip off on February 7 at Bender Arena with the 10th Annual Sustainability-themed Men’s Basketball game.

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Â鶹ÊÓƵ Men's Basketball 10th Annual Sustainability Awareness Game, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

Tip-off to eight-week national competition to reduce waste produced on campus
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