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Pollinator Week 2023
Pollinator Week is an annual, international celebration of pollinator health.

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Pollinator Week 2023

Pittsburgh Campus Construction Sustainability, 2023

Campus Tree Trek

Clean & Swap – 2023 Home Electronics Recycling

Pitt One of 25 Organizations Honored for Leadership in Solar Energy in Allegheny County

2023-24 MCSI Sustainability Research Grant & Faculty Award Recipients

2023 Pitt Sustainability Awards

Earth Month 2023

Clutter For A Cause 2023: Zero Waste

2018-22 Progress Report on the Pitt Sustainability Plan

Take the 2023 Pitt Sustainability Literacy & Culture Survey

2022 Pitt Commuter Survey Results

Career Center Environment & Sustainability Week 2023

Pitt Green Office 2023 Update

Take the Pitt Print & Digital Use Survey

Bigelow Boulevard Ranked One of 2023’s Best New Bike Lanes in U.S.

Safe Chemical Waste Management and Increasing Recycling Efforts

Pitt’s First LEED Platinum Certification Achieved for Salk Hall Renovation

2023 Pitt Sustainability Award Nominations Are Open

Pitt First Sustainable Pittsburgh Platinum Workplace

MCSI 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities

Pitt GHG Inventory for Fiscal Year 2021

Pitt Sustainability Challenge Announced: Calling Creative & Innovative Thinkers

Construction Begins on Pitt-Partnered Gaucho Solar Project Near Pittsburgh International Airport

MCSI 2023 Grant Opportunities Open for Faculty & Student Groups

Pitt Nursing joins National Nursing Climate Challenge to Fight Climate Change

The Assembly Achieves LEED Gold Status

Pitt Center for Sustainable Business Celebrates 3 Year Anniversary

Campus Sustainability Month 2022

Melissa Bilec Named Special Assistant to the Provost for Sustainability

Student-led Menstrual Equity Case Study Wins 2022 Campus Race to Zero Waste Award

Take the 2022 Pitt Commuter Survey

Jennifer Barnes Is a Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 under 40

Pitt’s Hillside Area Development Recognized with National SCUP Award

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation’s 2022 Annual Report

Pollinator Week 2022

2022-23 MCSI Sustainability Research & Education Grant Recipients

Celebrate Arbor Day

2022 Pitt Sustainability Awardees and Champions

Summer 2022 Sustainability Undergraduate Research Projects, Advisors, and Student Participants

Earth Month 2022

Pitt’s Consolidated Endowment Fund ESG Report, 2020-21

Tree Campus Certification Received for Pittsburgh Campus

Four Pitt Eats Campus Locations Achieve Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant Designations

Pitt Climate Action Plan Released (March 2022)

Pitt Achieves Silver Bike Friendly University Status

Global TreeZero Paper Shortage

Pitt Johnstown’s John P. Murtha Center Receives LEED Certification

Pitt Clean and Swap – March 9 and 10

Pittsburgh Campus Hillside Transformation

Celebrating Alumni: Black History Month 2022

Campus Race to Zero Waste 2022

Four Pitt Eats Micro-Farms Growing Greens for On-Campus Menus

New Solar Array for Pitt Bradford Engineering & Technology Building Awarded $230,000 Grant

2022 Pitt Sustainability Award Nominations Open!

Clutter for a Cause 2022

2021 Pitt Green Resident & Green Floor Results
Pitt Nitrogen Inventory for FY20

Pitt GHG Inventory for Fiscal Year 2020

2022 MCSI Faculty & Student Grant Programs Open for Application!

Just Transition Pittsburgh

Marshall Plan for Middle America Awarded Second Place in International Climate Challenge Cup

New Recreation and Wellness Center Will Champion Students’ Mental and Physical Wellness

Covestro and University of Pittsburgh Establish Groundbreaking Circular Economy Program

New Bike Infrastructure Made Possible by Pepsi Grant

The Heinz Endowments Gives $800,000 to Pitt’s Center for Sustainable Business

Pitt Highlighted in 2021 Sustainable Campus Index

Pitt Recognized as “Organization of the Year” by BikePGH

CONNECT Regional Climate Action Planning

Water Use Reduction Milestone Achieved

New Dashboard Highlighting Healthy Ride at Pitt Utilization

MCSI Taps David Sanchez as Associate Director

Pitt Theatre Production ‘Somewhere’ on Climate Collapse & Butterflies Was Also Sustainably Produced

Hispanic Heritage Month 2021

2021 AASHE Global Conference in Sustainability Higher Education

Pitt Named One Of America’s 2021 “Cool Schools”

Pitt’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Names Dr. Melissa Bilec New Co-Director

2021 Bike to Campus Week, September 20-24
Pittsburgh Household Chemical Collection
Land Acknowledgement

2020 Real College Survey Results on Student Basic Needs

Pitt Celebrates Over 1 Million Square Feet of Certified Green Buildings

Diversity Forum 2021: Sustainability Sessions

Pollinator Week 2021: June 21-27
Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation’s 2021 Annual Report

New Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research finds Benefits to Water Fluoridation

Regalia Recycling

Earth Day 2021

2021 Momentum Grant for Transcending Disciplines to Advance Regional Water Equity

2021 John C. Mascaro Faculty Awards in Sustainability

Pitt Student Project Places Second in EPA’s 9th Annual Campus RainWorks Challenge

New Dashboards for Building Energy & Water Use Intensity (2014 – 2019)

2021 Sustainability Champions

Pitt Sustainability Efforts Recognized as AASHE STARS Gold

Green Home Office Lunch & Learn Series
Polycarbin: Sustainability in the Science Industry
Closing the Food-Loop with Ecotone Renewables
Pollinators At Home

Dr. David Sanchez, 2021 Soska Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership Awardee

Thriftsburgh – Sustainability in Fashion & Thrifty Business in a Pandemic

Board Adopts Ad Hoc Committee Report on Fossil Fuel Investments

6 Pitt Dining Locations Now Live Well Allegheny Restaurants
Report Released from Ad Hoc Committee on Fossil Fuels

Year of Engagement Grant Helps Pitt Hydroponics Club Expand Urban Greenhouse in a Food Desert

Bigelow Boulevard Transformation: Reimagined Streetscape Now Open
Choose to Reuse is Back!

Campus Zero Waste Week 2021

New Sustainability Transcript Distinction Available to Recognize Focus In & Out of Classroom

Pitt Facilities’ Scott Bernotas Named to E+E 100

2020 Pitt Green Resident & Green Floor Results

Pitt Signs “All In” National Declaration on Climate Action & Clean Recovery

Dr. Eric Beckman Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Pitt Signs “All In” National Declaration on Climate Action & Clean Recovery
Pitt Green Home Office Survey Preview.pdf
Pitt CSB: Marshall Plan for Middle America Roadmap
Pitt GHG Inventory for Fiscal Year 2019
Pitt Nitrogen Inventory for Fiscal Year 2019

Art: The Campus Energy Constellation

Celebrating FY20 as Lowest Energy Use Intensity since 2008

Ad Hoc Committee on Fossil Fuels, Fall 2020 Process

Pitt AIA 2020 Design Awards: Homewood CEC & Center for Urban Education

Pitt Shuttles Switch to Propane, Reducing Carbon Emissions

Pitt Fleet Expands Efficient, Hybrid, & Electric Options via Enterprise Partnership

2020-21 MCSI Leonard Peters Faculty Fellows
Green Lab Resources
Waste-free Initiatives in Pitt Dining

Welcoming Pitt’s 2020 Millennium Fellowship Cohort
How to Make Your Home Office More Sustainable

Pitt on Top 30 Green Powered Universities List (July 2020)
Glove Recycling
Textile Recycling
Pitt Sustainability Successes, 2019-20 Academic Year
Resource Guide for Black-Owned Businesses at Pitt: Opportunity & Commitment

Board of Trustees Ad Hoc Committee on Fossil Fuels Divestment

Pitt’s Commitment to Local Solar Energy
MCSI 2020 Annual Report

Bee Campus USA Certification for Pitt
Racial Justice Statements & Resources

Climate Solutions Grant Will Aid Oakland Energy Master Plan

Helium Recovery Making a Difference
Results from the 2020 Pitt Sustainability Literacy & Culture Survey
Office Water Coolers
CBC Podcast – Sustaining Sustainability

Chilling Up Your ULT Freezer

Get to Know Polycarbin, 2020 Randall Big Idea Competition Grand Prize Team

Healthy Soul’s Pitt Blast Furnace Journey
Trees’ Benefit to You, Campus, & Our Communities

Summer 2020 Sustainability Undergraduate Research Projects, Advisors, and Student Participants

2020-21 MCSI Sustainability Research Seed Grant Recipients
Pitt ESG Criteria and SRI Screening Process
Pitt Professional Development in Sustainability

Pitt Earth Day Timeline, 1970 – 2020

Pitt Earth Day History, 1970 – 2020

Earth Day 2020 – 50th Anniversary
Pitt Sustainability Awards
Fall 2019 Pitt Green Residents

Pitt Green Labs with 2020 Designations

Pitt Commits to Achieve Carbon Neutrality
Report – Flooding in Southwestern Pennsylvania: Knowledge Gaps and Approaches

Pitt Sustainability Dashboard Launched!

Hydroponics Club Grows Food For Those In Need, Teaches Methods to Local Kids
Sustainable Building and Renovation Advancements
Pitt’s Sustainable Development Goals Activities
Academic Course Sustainability Attribute Codes

Pitt Pantry – From Research to a Real Need

Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN) 2019 Supportive Staff Member Award Celebrates Erika Ninos

Center for Sustainable Business Launches

Tree Zero Paper
Report – Water Quality in Southwestern Pennsylvania: Knowledge Gaps and Approaches

Multidisciplinary Global Waste Convergence Grant from NSF Awarded to Pitt-led Circular Economy Research

Pitt Signs Cool Food Pledge to Cut Food-Related GHG Emissions

Pittsburgh Spotlighted as Leader in Advancing Sustainable Development Goals

Listening In: Techy Ecology Take Offers Fresh Insight into Animal Kingdom

MCSI 2019-20 Leonard Peters Faculty Fellows in Sustainability
Water Filter Cartridge Recycling
Welcoming Pitt’s First Millennium Fellowship Cohort (Fall 2019)

Welcoming Pitt’s First Millennium Fellowship Cohort (Fall 2019)

4 Electric Box Trucks Come to Pitt
Chancellor’s Socially Responsible Investment Committee Report Response (August 2019)

University of Pittsburgh Partners with Healthy Ride: Unlimited 30-Minute Bike Share Rides for Pitt First-Years (2019-20)

First Year Sustainability Bags (Fall 2019)

7 from Pitt on The Incline’s Who’s Next: Environment & Energy 2019 List

2019 MCSI Summer Undergraduate Sustainability Research Symposium
Glove Recycling Pilot

Pitt on Top 30 Green Powered Universities List (July 2019)
Socially Responsible Investment Committee Report – April 2019

Pitt–Johnstown Is Pennsylvania’s First Campus Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary

Athletics Donates to Managers On A Mission

2019-2020 Annual Seed Grant Program Recipients

Bee Houses Keep Pitt Abuzz
Report – Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Management: Knowledge Gaps and Approaches

Let’s Clear the Air: Long-Term Environmental Justice Partnership in East End

Chancellor’s Letter to Fossil Free Coalition – April 2019

Fossil Free Pitt Coalition Letter to Chancellor, April 3, 2019

Pitt Wins the Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge, University Division
Shut Your Sash
2018 Pitt Sustainability Success

Pitt Food Recovery Heroes Receive PRC Zero Waste Excellence Award

Pitt Athletics Joins Green Sports Alliance

Pitt Joins U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership

MCSI 2019 Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunity

Pitt Green Offices with 2019 Designations

University of Pittsburgh Receives Accolades From EPA For Food Recovery Achievements

Pitt Dining Halls Rank Gold in Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant Assessment

University of Pittsburgh to Purchase Local Hydropower

2019 Faculty Awardees of the John C. Mascaro Fellowships
Discounts & Resources from Post-Landfill Action Network

Pitt Named Bronze Bicycle Friendly University for First Time

CommutePitt Wins $7,000 Grant From New American Road Trip

Pitt Sustainability Interns – 2018-19 Campus Roundup

The Aquaponics Project, a Pitt student group Wins Big

New Bike Lanes Added to Forbes Avenue

Food Recovery Efforts Applauded in City Climate Plan

New Glass Could Be Future of Solar Energy

Project Aims to Recycle the Unrecyclable

Dining Services Expands Sustainable Practices

Pittsburgh Institutions Are Trying to Reduce Food Waste, But at What Cost?

Pittsburgh Institutions are Trying to Reduce Food Waste, but at What Cost?

Pitt Unveils Sustainable Engineering Master’s Program

University of Pittsburgh Wins 2017 Sustainable Pittsburgh Green Workplace Challenge