Office for Sustainability

🤚 Looking to make a difference in the Richmond area this holiday season? 🌳On Saturday, December 20, at 11:00 a.m., the Ginter Park Residents Association is hosting a neighborhood clean-up event with the organization We Clean Our Streets. The group will meet next to Francis W. McClenney Elementary School at the corner of Hawthorne Ave. and Ordway Ave. 🗑️ We Clean Our Streets will provide all the supplies needed to participate,...

🥳 Congratulations to our 2025 International Education Week Ecochallenge winners!! 🎉 1️⃣ First Place: Jacob Sequeira 2️⃣ Second Place: Maya Basnyat 3️⃣ Third Place: Lucy Fox-Wiviott 💪 Group Prize Per Capita: Rethink Waste 💪 Group Prize Total: Team Global Health These individuals and teams really showed up this year for the IE Week Ecochallenge. From incredible international guest lectures hosted by the Center for...

UPDATE: Due to weather, this lunch will be rescheduled. ------ 📅 🌍 Learn about international progress on climate change initiatives at the "Planet Power Lunch" this Friday at 12:00 p.m.! COP30 is this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference. It took place in Belém, Brazil in mid-November. UN Climate Change Conferences (or COPs) take place every year, and it's an opportunity for the world to come together to agree on the actions...

Richmond is a hot spot for finding unique, sustainable gifts for this holiday season! Check out the Sustainability Holiday Gift Guide linked in our bio for finding new ways to shop for the holiday season. 🎁 🤔 Not into gift giving but still want to celebrate the holidays sustainably? We have ideas for that, too. 🚶‍♀️ Don't have a car but still looking to find something your friends or family will love? St. Stephen's Farmers...