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Solar panels on the roof of an Â鶹ÊÓƵ building.

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Leading Environmental Change: Â鶹ÊÓƵ Continues to Be a Power Player, Five Years after Achieving Carbon Neutrality

How do you quantify carbon neutrality? The energy saved since Â鶹ÊÓƵ reached the historic milestone in 2018 is equivalent to planting around 4.5 million trees—more than double the total number in the District.
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Heat map showing energy use on main campus. The dark green bands (equating to periods of low energy use), called out by a “black box†outline, show building energy reductions.

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Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Latest Winter Energy Curtailment Efforts Result in Significant Energy and Cost Savings

Â鶹ÊÓƵ reduced its emissions by 222 metric tons during the December 2022 winter break closure. It also resulted in an $77,318 reduction in energy costs for the university.
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CAS student Ekua Hudson used Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Design and Build Lab to construct a sustainable farming system.

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A Bountiful Future: Â鶹ÊÓƵ Student Crafting Sustainable Food Plan for DC Public Schools

Driven by the desire to create equitable food systems for underserved communities, public health major Ekua Hudson, CAS/BA ’24, is teaching herself how to design and build sustainable hydroponic farms to help feed Washingtonians.
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ's fleet of buses provides sustainable travel to campus.

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DC Competition Rewards Sustainable Commuting

Lace up your sneakers and log your trip to work—even if it’s a home office—for a chance to win Nationals tickets, gift cards, and more.
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To the Point

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To the Point: What Causes Earthquakes, and Is Climate Change Involved?

Professor of Environmental Science Stephen MacAvoy answers our question of the week
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You can compost at your home regardless of your space.

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Your Guide To: Composting in Small Spaces 

Megan Litke, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s director of sustainability, breaks down how composting even in tiny spaces can have a big impact on our plants and our planet.
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ Men's Basketball 9th Annual Sustainability Awareness Game, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, 7 p.m.

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Campus Race to Zero Waste Tips Off Wednesday, Feb. 1 at Annual Men’s Basketball Game

Part of an eight-week national competition to reduce waste produced on campus
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HSBC building

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Four Questions about HSBC’s Commitment to Stop Funding Oil and Gas Projects

SIS professor David Simpson talks about HSBC’s recent announcement to stop financing new oil and gas projects and the effect this policy change will have on global emissions.
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Plants in the shape of a fist

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The Cost of Environmental Activism

Environmental activists have been fighting for centuries for a variety of climate and social justice causes, yet the real cost of this activism has only been recently uncovered by a non-profit group, Global Witness.
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Upstream, Downriver conference flyer

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Experts Gather for Symposium on 50th Anniversary of Clean Water Act

Panelists celebrate cleaner rivers and discuss ongoing challenges from non-point source pollution, climate change, and environmental injustice.
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