Friday Intern Feature 🕷🚴🏻♀️Meet Carly Kessler, our Sustainable Living and URSA Intern! She's responsible for student outreach, managing our Green Room Program, and coordinating several sustainability related events on campus. Carly joined the Sustainability Office in search of acting for positive change in whatever capacity she could. She knows topics surrounding sustainability are the most pressing issues of our time, so working...
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Sustainable Solutions Challenge
The 2023 Sustainable Solutions Challenge invites students in all majors to propose an initiative of their choice that would work to create a culture around sustainability at University of Richmond.
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Wherever you are on campus, there are numerous ways to reduce your impact on our environment. Get started now with these shortcuts and visit our locations around campus that help make a difference.Wondering about recycling, composting, and donations?
Email Rethink Waste Manager David Donaldson at ddonalds@richmond.edu.
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The 2023 Sustainable Solutions Challenge invites all students to propose an initiative of their choice that would work to create a culture around sustainability at UR. We encourage submissions responding to the issues of Reusables, Sustainable Purchasing, Energy Usage, Landscape, Public Art and Environmental Education. Registration is now available and open to all majors!
🔗 Learn about the challenge at the link in our bio!
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Methane Mapping Methods for the Climate Emergency, with two special guests! Join Professor Stephen Metts from The New School and Professor Nathan Phillips from Boston College as they demonstrate methane leak detection and mapping methods. Stephen and Nathan will answer questions for geographers and friends who are interested in opportunities to support community organizations like Sierra Club, who will be mapping methane leaks in Richmond over...
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Winter energy saving tips: set your thermostat like a green spider ♻️🕷️68 when you're home, 62 when you're out, 60 when you're away. Seal the deal by closing windows and blinds at night.
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Sustainability Events
Sustainability News
January 10, 2023
CAMPUS LIFE
Tree mapping project shows a dynamic new view of campus
Students and volunteers are working to identify every tree on campus and demonstrate their ability to capture carbon dioxide.
October 28, 2022
University of Richmond Ranked as Top 50 Green College
UR has been included in this guide for more than a decade and made the “Top 50” list for the first time, ranking at #21.
September 29, 2022
THE CONVERSATION
UN slavery estimate raises question: Are 50 million people really enslaved today?
Political science professor Monti Datta authored this piece.