Getting crafty during quarantine? During the last two weeks of April, UVA Sustainability student employees hosted the Waste Reimagined art competition. The competition encouraged students to think differently about the waste around them; participants had to use recycled, repurposed or forgotten items as a main component of their piece. See some of our top submissions below:
The program has saved the University approximately $28.7 million in energy costs since 2009.
The Facilities Management Sustainability Council is excited to recognize Vinnie Vawter & Doug Rush from the Health System Physical Plant as our next Sustainability Champions.
At UVA, students, faculty and staff are pursuing initiatives to promote sustainability on grounds and around the world.
If you've ever recycled a peanut butter jar, you probably have had the same thought as me: by the time I have scrubbed it clean, rid the jar of all the oil, and diligently sorted it into its paper grocery bag to recycle, is this jar even going to make a difference? Where will it even go?
Taking a Renewable Energy Systems class led student Erik Toor to get real about sustainability and start the CVille Solar Project.
Every October, UVA's Green Labs program runs a "Shut the Sash" competition for lab personnel to learn about saving energy and improving safety -- while vying for prizes!
Clean energy is on the horizon and UVA is rising to the challenge, including a Facilities Management’s pilot project to switch out gas-run vehicles to all-electric versions.