Campus Sustainability News
News on campus sustainability initiatives, emerging programs, rankings, awards, student initiatives, green teams, and more from across the Cornell University campus.
Cornell Campus Sustainability Office | Summer 2018
Sustainability Life Recipe Series
Cornell Campus Sustainability Office | Winter 2018
Sustainability Life Recipe Series
Cornell University | May 10, 2017
Cornell’s Lake Source Cooling facility has been in operation for over 15 years, providing the campus with low-carbon, clean cooling, direct from Cayuga Lake. Learn how the LSC project has remained one of the most significant environmental initiatives ever undertaken by an American university to promote a sustainable future.
Cornell Chronicle | Stephen D'Angelo, April 19, 2017
A multidisciplinary Cornell design and research team, assembled to tackle the environmental problem of post-consumer textile waste, has developed a unique fabric-shredding machine in hopes of a zero-waste solution for the textile industry.
Cornell Chronicle | Sherrie Negrea, March 2, 2017
A new smartphone app, Humble Bee, will engage and motivate students to change their behavior to improve sustainability on campus. “The problem hasn’t been engaging staff – it’s been engaging students,” said Casey Franklin, a doctoral student in human behavior and design. “How do we reach a new generation that would rather play Pokémon Go than look at our sustainability website?”
Pawprint | January 26, 2017
Staff commended and provided with new tools to act as the front-line eyes and ears of creating a welcoming campus.
Cornell Chronicle | Blaine Friedlander, January 6, 2017
The university formally opened three additional solar farms in December that will generate large amounts of electricity and help the campus achieve its carbon neutrality goals.
PawPrint | Sue Brightly, January 13, 2016
Benefits of remote work arrangements include increased productivity, reduction in turnover, improved morale, eco-friendliness and cost-effectiveness.
Two of Cornell’s programs were found to be particularly relevant: the university’s faculty tenure clock-stop policy for families with new dependents and the financial support faculty can receive to defray the cost for their dependents to accompany them on professional travel or to arrange home care for dependents while the faculty member travels.
Cornell Chronicle | Susan Lang, August 2, 2013
The 2013 Cornell University Partners in Sustainability Award (CUPSA) has been given to the Building Bridges Initiative.