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Seventy-five percent of campus waste filters into large containers near СÀ¶ÊÓƵ’s Sports Center Annex.

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Trace Your Waste

Leave fewer (environmental) footprints behind by following Facility Management’s trash-sorting guidelines.
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Food spills out of a trash can. Photo from Getty.

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Two Facts and a Fiction: Waste Not

CAS professorial lecturer and RECIPES fellow Kristine Beran on wasted food, which reaches a peak during the holiday season.
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Mark Freedman of Facilities Management explains how the heating plant operates.

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Facilities Management Marks ENERGY STAR Day with a Heating Plant Tour

Facilities Management partners with Office of Sustainability to show staff and faculty СÀ¶ÊÓƵ's energy-saving heating plant
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Professor Casey Cook conducting СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Chorus during rehearsal. Photo: Olivia Bloch

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Intertwining Roots: Collaborative, Antiracist Scholarship and the Environment

Two-day event promotes antiracist approaches to environmental work.
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Some of the reused light fittings that were diverted from waste.

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A Bright Idea: Reducing Energy Through Material Reuse

СÀ¶ÊÓƵ reduces waste by reusing materials from demolition during recent tunnel renovation.
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From left: СÀ¶ÊÓƵ undergraduate Maxwell Downing, Dana Fisher, two Columbia University researchers and СÀ¶ÊÓƵ graduate student Caitlin Wiley take a photo at the March to End Fossil Fuels.

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Taking the Temperature of Global Warming

SIS professor Dana Fisher and a team of researchers polled participants about climate change at the March to End Fossil Fuels.
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To the Point: Anacostia River

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Is DC’s Anacostia River on the Rebound and Safe for Swimming?

Environmental science department chair and associate professor Karen Knee answers our question of the week
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New energy-saving LED fixtures in Mary Graydon Center

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Energy-saving LED lights come to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall

Renovations this summer brought energy-saving LED lights to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall
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Bronté Burleigh-Jones (СÀ¶ÊÓƵ CFO), Edwin Santos (President СÀ¶ÊÓƵSG), and Marcus Neil (President RHA) with Clawed at the Tunnel ribbon-cutting

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СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Delivers Summer 2023 Transformations in Leonard Hall, the Tunnel, and Mary Graydon Center

Student Thriving Project kicks into high gear with Tunnel, Mary Graydon Center, and Leonard Hall improvements designed to enable students’ success.
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US Park Rangers at Death Valley's Furnace Creek on a 132-degree day, July 16. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

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Two Facts and a Fiction: Heat Wave

СÀ¶ÊÓƵ atmospheric scientist Valentina Aquila explains what on Earth is happening on the heels of the hottest June on record
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