Campus Sustainability News
News on campus sustainability initiatives, emerging programs, rankings, awards, student initiatives, green teams, and more from across the Cornell University campus.
The ceremony included remarks by senior leaders, and awards for students for sustainability innovation and lifetime service. The event also includes presentation of 'sustainability honors tassels' to graduating seniors who have committed themselves to a lifetime of sustainability service and learning.
"Sue wholeheartedly embraces the concepts of sustainability and has deep care and compassion for the environment and people around her. . ."
Bert Bland is responsible for around-the-clock electric, heating, cooling, water, sewage, energy generation, distribution, and use-optimization of Cornell University’s 250+ buildings on the Ithaca campus. He was interviewed by The Megawatt Hour as part of their series "Complexities in Energy Decision Making."
On January 31st, the Student Assembly passed a resolution in support of climate change and sustainability literacy.
Cornell recently opened Cascadilla Community Solar Farm, the University’s sixth large-scale solar project. The solar farms will generate 30-gigawatt hours to serve about 3,000 average local residential homes.
The new solar farm - Cornell's 6th - will generate over 30,000 megawatts annually and double the University's annual renewable energy use.
Cornell dove into its 10th year of participating in the sustainability contest “RecycleMania” — a continent-wide, two-month-long tournament in which universities compete to generate the least waste and recycle the most.
Upson Hall is Cornell’s fifth LEED Platinum building and the 21st overall LEED certified project completed on the Ithaca campus. Calculations for Upson Hall's energy efficiency reflect a 66.62 percent energy-cost reduction – a new Cornell LEED record.
“Indigenous people around the world are incredibly important when we think – in terms of climate change and impact – about what is happening to our planet,” said Allred, associate professor of natural resources, in her Dec. 6 keynote address at Cornell’s 2018 Sustainability Leadership Summit. Each year leaders across campus gather to discuss and find ways to make the campus sustainable.
Cornell Daily Sun | Amanda H. Cronin, November 7, 2018
With roots in its Ithaca campus’ natural setting and its Climate Action Plan, Cornell University has been named one of the top 20 “Coolest Schools,” or, greenest colleges of 2018 in the Sierra Club’s annual list