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The University of Pittsburgh has achieved AASHE STARS Gold for the first time! Three years after achieving its first-ever Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (AASHE STARS) rating (Silver),…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/pitt-aashe-stars-gold-2021/Learn how to make your home – and home office – more sustainable! The Office of Sustainability’s newly launched Green Home Office Challenge is helping Pitt employees examine their workspaces and tweak them to create a more comfortable, healthy, and productive…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/green-home-office-lunch-learn/The article below is an edit of the original by Noah Pyles for Pitt’s Big Idea Center Prized for their performance and affordability, single-use plastics are at the heart of the modern health science economy and a necessary…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/polycarbin-sustainability-in-the-science-industry/Ecotone Renewables is closing the food-loop by recapturing lost nutrients and creating hyper-local energy production. With food being so ingrained in our social lives, we can sometimes forget about the main purpose of food: to sustain life. As this…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/closing-the-food-loop-with-ecotone-renewables/Make your backyard pollinator friendly with some of these helpful tips! If you enjoy fruits, vegetables, and flowers then you will want to protect your local pollinators that make this magic happen. These local pollinators are bees, butterflies,…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/pollinators-at-home/The 2021 Soska Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership awardee is David Sanchez. The Tracy Soska and John Wilds Outreach and Engagement Leadership Award was established in 2020 to honor a faculty member or staff engagement professional who serves the University of…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/dr-david-sanchez-2021-soska-wilds-outreach-and-engagement-leadership-awardee/Pitt’s on-campus thrift store sells secondhand clothing that helps reduces textile waste, cuts carbon, and promotes a culture of reuse. sustainability, social justice, and vintage outfits for all. Since the pandemic began, online shopping has been all the…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/thriftsburgh-sustainability-in-fashion-thrifty-business-in-a-pandemic/The University will continue to phase out fossil fuel investments in the endowment, reaching zero by the year 2035. On February 26, 2021, the University of Pittsburgh’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to undertake the actions presented to…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/board-adopts-ad-hoc-report-fossil-investments/The University of Pittsburgh has achieved distinction for 6 dining locations as Live Well Allegheny Restaurants, an initiative to make Allegheny County a healthier place. Six Pitt eateries have all been recognized as Live Well Allegheny Restaurants: The…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/6-pitt-dining-locations-now-live-well-allegheny-restaurants/The report of the Board of Trustees’ Ad Hoc Committee on Fossil Fuels is now available online with a public comment period open related to it. The report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Fossil Fuels was publicly posted on…
https://www.sustainable.pitt.edu/report-released-from-ad-hoc-committee-on-fossil-fuels/