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Cassell Hall residents celebrate after winning campus energy saving competition.

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Cassell Hall Residents Win Competition to Reduce Electricity Consumption

Residence Hall competition saves total of 8,810 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
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This heatmap shows energy savings at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ over the winter closure. 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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Winter Energy Curtailment Efforts Result in Significant Cost Savings

Data shows reduction in energy costs and carbon emissions during annual campus shutdown.
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Photo by Jeff Watts.

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Snow Place Like Home

Facilities Management staffers have cleared 15 inches of snow this winter as part of their commitment to keeping campus safe and beautiful.
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Waste Not, Want Not

At an E-Waste Drive held last week, the Â鶹Æƽâ°æ community did its part in responsibly discarding electronic waste—collecting 433 pounds of unwanted tech items that might otherwise have landed in the landfill.
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Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Men's 11th Annual Sustainability Awareness Game

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Annual Zero Waste Competition Tips Off with Sustainability-themed Men’s Basketball Game, Feb. 10

Part of the Campus Race to Zero Waste competition to reduce waste produced on campus
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Sustainability tracking, assessment, and rating system

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Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Earns Its Seventh STARS Gold Rating

Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education rates Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s sustainability efforts.
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WWF CEO Carter Roberts and Kogod dean David Marchick

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WWF Protects Not Just Furry Animals, but Nature Itself

Kogod hosted CEO Carter Roberts on November 12 as part of its Gamechangers in Sustainability Speaker Series
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Â鶹Æƽâ°æ staff and students with trash sorting for compost, recycling, and trash.

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Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Ranks Second in The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges List

Highest ranking yet in annual list
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Dennis Smith, building automation technician, operates an automated logic control (ALC) panel.

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Building Automation Systems – a ‘Sixth Sense’ for Ensuring Energy Conservation and Optimal Efficiency

How do university engineers ensure that energy conservation and optimal efficiency are maintained in campus buildings?
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Aerial view of a swirling hurricane over Earth. Photo from Getty.

Environment ·

3 Facts and a Fiction: The Eye of the Storm

Hurricanes are the deadliest, costliest, and most destructive of all weather-related hazards in the US. With Hurricane Helene battering the East Coast, environmental science professor Stephen MacAvoy explains what to expect now—and in the future.
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