Pollinator Month 2024
Join Pitt in a month-long celebration highlighting native pollinator species!
Pitt Green Spotlight: Open Lab (June 2024)
The Pitt Green Spotlight is a monthly series highlighting Pitt’s Green Offices & Labs!
Pipette Tip Box Recycling Pilot Launched
***UPDATE: The Pipette Tip Box Recycling Pilot ceased in April 2025, concluding the mailback portion of the pilot initiative. To recycle Pipette Tip Boxes on Pitt’s campus, please visit our Specialty Recycling information for details on accepted materials and drop off locations.
The University of Pittsburgh is excited to announce a Pipette Tip Box Recycling pilot for the Pittsburgh campus!
Pitt’s Consolidated Endowment Fund ESG Report, 2022-23
Highlights from the University’s third report on how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are used in management of the Consolidated Endowment Fund (CEF).
2024-25 MCSI Sustainability Research Grant & Faculty Award Recipients
Congratulations to the research grant recipients of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation’s 2024-25 awards, which each help faculty engage in sustainability research at Pitt.
Pitt Celebrates Arbor Day 2024
In honor of Arbor Day 2024, we’d like to announce that the University of Pittsburgh’s Tree Campus designation has been renewed!
The University’s Pittsburgh campus first achieved its national Tree Campus Higher Education designation in 2021 from the Arbor Day Foundation.
Pitt Makes Health Sciences Sustainability Official
In conjunction with Earth Day 2024, the University of Pittsburgh formalized its decades of University-wide and Health Sciences-inclusive sustainability efforts with a new sustainability office in the Schools of Health Sciences.
EcoArtisan Sustainable Art Expo
About the Event:
This Sustainable Art Exhibition was curated by the EcoArtisans, a group of Environmental Studies/Science students in the GEOL 1333 “Sustainability” class. In this course, students are tasked with implementing a sustainability initiative to Pitt’s campus.
2024 Pitt Sustainability Awardees
In April 2024, the University of Pittsburgh recognized and celebrated the wonderful students, staff, and faculty working to create a more sustainable future at Pitt and beyond. Read more about their inspiring achievements below:
FacultyDr. Kevin Bell
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Green Lab Sample Box Pilot Launched
***UPDATE: The Green Lab Sample Box Pilot ceased in 2025. For information on how to operate a sustainable lab, check out Green Lab Resources and consider becoming a Pitt Green Lab.
University Receives 2024 Gold AASHE STARS Recognition
The University of Pittsburgh has achieved AASHE STARS Gold for the second time!
Earth Month 2024
Happy Earth Month! As members of the Pitt community, we have the power to make a significant impact on the environment.
On the first Earth Day in1970, an estimated 20 million people attended inaugural events across tens of thousands of schools, universities, and community sites. As a result of the growing public demand for cleaner water, air, and land, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established that same year.
2023 Watershed Sampling Day Results Released by Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory
In 2023, the Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory and Allegheny County Conservation District conducted a countywide Watershed Sampling Day. Nearly 40 trained volunteers collected water samples at 44 tributaries of interest.
Pitt Green Spotlight: Pitt Athletics Administrative Office & Strategic Communications (March 2024)
The Pitt Green Spotlight is a monthly series highlighting Pitt’s Green Offices & Labs!
Zero Waste Laundry Sheet Pilot in Lothrop Hall
Residents of Lothrop Hall now have a unique opportunity to help reduce waste on-campus just by doing their laundry. Starting in February 2024, Pitt Housing is piloting a zero waste refillable laundry sheet dispenser from Generation Conscious. The dispenser eliminates consumer packaging and the sheets are made without water, reducing the waste and carbon impact of laundry on campus – and best of all, it’s currently available for free to Lothrop Hall residents from a laundry room dispenser.