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Historical garden

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

Since 2018, a professor specializing in cultural food history and his students from the Department of History of the Université de Sherbrooke have established a historical garden on the university ...

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Programs in sustainable mobility

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Université de Sherbrooke is firmly committed to sustainable mobility and has implemented a wide range of programs in this area. For example, its student community enjoy free access to ...

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Outdoor learning experience

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

Outdoor learning experience offered by the Centre for Environmental and Sustainable Development Studies of the Université de Sherbrooke.

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Deer on the Main Campus

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Main Campus of the Université de Sherbrooke is adjacent to the Mont-Bellevue Park, and benefits from its multiple ecosystems. The Mont-Bellevue Park, which covers an area of 202 hectares ...

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Carbon neutrality for the Université de Sherbrooke

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

Université de Sherbrooke redoubled efforts and achieved carbon neutrality in spring 2022, 8 years ahead of its 2030 target. Emissions reduction efforts include purchasing renewable natural gas, installing heat pumps ...

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Implementation of an ambitious energy efficiency program

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Université de Sherbrooke has taken advantage of a period of growth from 2002-2003 to 2020-2021 to roll out an ambitious energy efficiency program on its campuses, aiming to reduce ...

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Energy efficiency : the Creative Studio

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

In the last 20 years, construction and major renovation projects of the Université de Sherbrooke have included high-performance energy efficiency measures that reduced the energy consumption of the buildings by ...

Honolulu Community College: Micronesian weaving class to create sustainable plates and baskets

Honolulu Community College: SCI 2023

  • University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College (HI)

Student success and wellbeing initiative - Funded by a US Department of Education grant through 2025, the Ola Niuhelewai Program at University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College aims to increase Native ...

UNH Sustainability Fellowship 2023 Cohort Gathers at the Launch Event

University of New Hampshire - 2023 Sustainable Campus Index

  • University of New Hampshire (NH)

Sustainability fellowship - The Sustainability Fellowship at University of New Hampshire pairs undergraduate students and post-baccalaureates (grad students and recent grads) from UNH and universities across the United States with municipal ...

Each year, the CCU campus community come together a campus wide plant

John Brong Planting Day at CCU

  • Coastal Carolina University (SC)

Each year, the CCU community will comes together for a day of service to honor the life of the late John Brong, who served as the CCU greenhouse manager for ...

Sustain Coastal staff and volunteers hand-sort materials after each home football game as part of its zero-waste operations

Zero Waste Football (Horizontal and Vertical Image)

  • Coastal Carolina University (SC)

Every Chanticleer home football game is a zero-waste initiative. The goal of this effort is to divert as much waste as possible from each CCU home football game. We do ...

HKUST also has one of the largest-scale Solar Power Systems in Hong Kong

HKUST the First to Launch New ESG Investment Policy for its Net-Zero Carbon Goal

  • Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong)

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) became the first university in Hong Kong to make a pledge to eliminate investments in fossil fuels, with a concrete environmental ...

A fall bike ride was held at Central Community College-Hastings. Riders used the bicycles available on campus and rode to the wind turbine two miles to the south.

Central Community College-Hastings Fall Friday Bike Ride

  • Central Community College (NE)

CCC's environmental sustainability office held a bike ride from the Hastings Campus to the wind turbine in 2020. The activity was to stress the importance of alternate transportation and ...

CCC's environmental sustainability office members conduct demonstrations with Nebraska elementary school students at the sustainabililty pavilion on opening day at the Nebraska State Fair.

Central Community College, Sustainability Pavilion at Nebraska State Fair

  • Central Community College (NE)

Members of the CCC environmental sustainability office welcomed some 300 Nebraska elementary school students to the sustainability pavilion on opening day, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023.

CCC Environmental Sustainability Director Ben Newton conducts a tour of the pollinator garden at the Grand Island Campus.

Central Community College-Grand Island Pollinator Garden

  • Central Community College (NE)

CCC Environmental Sustainability Director Ben Newton conducts a tour of the pollinator garden at the Grand Island Campus.

Water Resources Institute, in partnership with Cornell Sustainable Action, the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the College of Human Ecology and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, have begun informing students and Ithaca residents vis sculptures around campus in the Year of Water.

Year of Water

  • Cornell University (NY)

Water Resources Institute’s Year of Water – an educational effort to inform students and Tompkins County residents.

Solar panel-topped ponds under construction at the Cornell Experimental Pond Facility.

Scientists study solar panel-topped ponds

  • Cornell University (NY)

Reseach into preserve agricultural land for crops and conservation lands for wildlife, place floating photovoltaic panels on lakes, rivers and reservoirs.

Green line rolling through Northeastern University's Boston Campus

Green line rolling through Northeastern University's Boston Campus

  • Northeastern University (MA)

Northeastern University is centrally located to the commuter rail, subway, buses, and bike share. As a result, 95% of students take sustainable modes of transportation to class.

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Adaptive measures

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Program for the Integration of Students living with Disabilities of the Université de Sherbrooke is designed to assist students with disabilities or learning disabilities succeed in their university studies ...

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FIEUS

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Student Investment Fund of the Université de Sherbrooke (FIEUS) is a responsible fund for close to one million dollars for the benefit of the University. It is managed by ...

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Women in Engineering

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Faculty of Engineering of the Université de Sherbrooke aims to increase the number of women in its programs and to promote greater diversity, so that everyone is better represented ...

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Graduation

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Université de Sherbrooke is a large humane university, which aspires to become an exemplary environment in terms of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Closeness, welcome, accessibility and openness to others ...

Mandela Washington Fellows gather for an opening reception on Uris Terrace.

Young African Leaders find inspiration, confidence at Cornell

  • Cornell University (NY)

The Cornell Einaudi Center and Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy welcomed 25 of Africa's most promising emerging public management leaders to campus this summer for a six-week ...

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Collaborative approach

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The collaborative structure in place at the Université de Sherbrooke in sustainable development, which is headed by the Vice-President, Administration and Sustainable Development, mobilizes a team of 40 persons working ...

The Wardrobe student group provides free professional clothing for students through free pop-up events and rental services, so any student can pursue any opportunity.

Free professional wardrobe(s)

  • Cornell University (NY)

Cornell Wardrobe, a student-run organization, The Wardrobe provides attire for ‘any student, any opportunity

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Rainwater retention

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

Rainwater from the stormwater network of the Université de Sherbrooke supply the rainwater collection basins, the ponds and the stream of the park named the Heart Campus. Heart Campus improves ...

Native students at Cornell collaborate with Cornell Botanic Gardens and students from its Learning by Leading program to create a healing and honoring medicinal garden in front of Akwe:kon, the nation's first university residence hall established to celebrate American Indian culture and heritage

Nation's first university residence hall established to celebrate American Indian culture and heritage

  • Cornell University (NY)

American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program

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The Welcome Bazaar

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

Since 2016, the Université de Sherbrooke has organized the Welcome Bazaar, an event that promotes peer-to-peer exchange within the university community and thus encourages the use of second-hand goods. The ...

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Dark Sky Reserve

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

Université de Sherbrooke is one of the partners in the project “Fight against light pollution : Towards the first Dark Sky Reserve in an urban environment around the Mont-Bellevue Park”. In ...

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Staff Day

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

The Université de Sherbrooke Staff Day is an annual development day organized for all employees. Several sports (on the picture : yoga), social, and cultural activities are held with the aim ...

iber Science and Apparel Design, and a multidisciplinary team of Cornell chemists and engineers have created a way to break down old polyester clothing and reuse some of its compounds to make a variety of new products - and to disrupt the cycle of textile waste proliferation.

Research, Upcycled Textile

  • Cornell University (NY)

Upcycled polyester.

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Ruche campus

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

A student beekeeper from the Ruche Campus student group of the Université de Sherbrooke checks the condition of one of the campus hives. Made up of student volunteers, Ruche Campus ...

Cornell constructed a 10,000-foot deep observatory borehole, the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO). CUBO will enable researchers to study how much heat can be produced by geothermal energy.

Earth Source Heat (ESH) is Cornell's version of a deep geothermal system

  • Cornell University (NY)

Cornell constructed a 10,000-foot deep observatory borehole, the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO). CUBO will enable researchers to study how much heat can be produced by geothermal energy.

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Research and teaching areas

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

In addition to the largest solar park dedicated to applied research in Canada, the Université de Sherbrooke owns the Johnville Bog and Forest Park, a 225 hectares research and teaching ...

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Photovoltaic panel

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

With a capacity of 1 MW, the solar park of the Université de Sherbrooke is the largest dedicated to applied research in Canada. Photovoltaic panels are located in various places ...

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Solar Park

  • Université de Sherbrooke (QC)

With a capacity of 1 MW, the solar park of the Université de Sherbrooke is the largest dedicated to applied research in Canada. Photovoltaic panels are located in various places ...

Hope Forward - A pay-it-forward model for tuition - Hope College Graves Hall

Hope Forward - A pay-it-forward model for tuition - Hope College

  • Hope College (MI)

A pay-it-forward model for tuition - Hope Forward is a tuition model at Hope College where students fund their education through gifts after graduation rather than paying for college through tuition ...

Acadia University Receives Organic Campus Designation

Acadia Receives Organic Campus Designation

  • Acadia University (NS)

Acadia University receives its Organic Campus Certificate from the Canada Organic Trade Association making it the first university in Canada to earn the national designation.

Brandeis' Year of Climate Action measured several metrics of success

Brandeis Year of Climate Action infographic

  • Brandeis University (MA)

Infographic with details about Brandeis' Year of Climate Action

Hope College Student Researchers in the Field

Hope College Photos for 2023 SCI recognition, “Top Performer, Research”

  • Hope College (MI)

Hope College in Holland, Michigan, provides numerous opportunities for students to participate in faculty-mentored, collaborative research focused on sustainability throughout their time at the college. In the year-long, “Day1: Watershed ...

Constructed wetland for stormwater treatment at Binghamton University

Constructed Wetland

  • Binghamton University (NY)

Constructed wetland at Binghamton University that treats about 2/3 of surface runoff from campus before it enters the Susquehanna River.

Concordia University Sir George Williams campus

SCI 2023 Major Investments in Sustainability Research

  • Concordia University (QC)

To accompany text for Concordia University's Major Investment in Sustainability Research to be featured in the SCI 2023.

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Growing Together Iowa volunteer harvests produce to donate to local food pantry

  • Iowa State University (IA)

Growing Together Iowa volunteer harvests produce to donate to local food pantry

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Teddy Toro (CSUDH)- Finance and Investment

  • California State University, Dominguez Hills (CA)

SCI 2023 photo, Top Performer, Investment & Finance

Water fountain with #TakeBackTheTap campaign decal at Humber College

Humber College SCI 2023 Photos - Water Category

  • Humber College (ON)

Photo submission for Humber College's Top Performance on 2023 SCI Water Category.

Minising Giizhigong (Island in the Sky) garden on roof deck of Humber College's BCTI Building

Humber College SCI 2023 Photos - Grounds Category

  • Humber College (ON)

Photo submission for Humber College's Top Performance in the 2023 SCI Grounds category.

Two-Eyed Seeing walk on the Humber Arboretum with Kaua'i Community College Partners

Humber College SCI 2023 Photos - Coordination and Planning Category

  • Humber College (ON)

Photo submission for Humber College's Top Performance recognition at 2023 SCI Coordination and Planning Category.

Waste Sorting at Humber Cultural Hub construction site

Humber College SCI 2023 Photos - Waste Category

  • Humber College (ON)

The photos being submitted relate to Humber College's recognition as a Top Performer in the 2023 SCI Waste category.

At this watercourse, rainwater is gathered and flows between buildings and under a semicircular gathering space, before collecting in a bioretention area.

Taking Stormwater Seriously at the University of Vermont

  • University of Vermont (VT)

The soils on UVM's campus are glacial till on bedrock, limiting infiltration of runoff. UVM’s diverse stormwater systems slow and filter runoff rather than letting it run directly ...

Artist rendering of Rendezvous Trail Apartments, an affordable housing partnership between Colorado State University and two local organizations.

Affordable Housing Photo from Colorado State University for 2023 SCI

  • Colorado State University (CO)

Artist rendering of Rendezvous Trail Apartments, an affordable housing project in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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