Sustainability

The Office of Sustainability and the Environmental Advisory Council are hosting events on April 2 and April 23 for students, faculty and staff to contribute ideas and suggestions for the future of environmental, social and economic initiatives on campus.

The Belk Library Green Team is incorporating sustainable practices into the workplace.

Four more weeks remain to reach top 5 in North Carolina for recycling efforts.

A semesterly residential contest that challenges students in residence halls to use less energy starts this week and ends just before Spring Break.

Four leaders in technology, entertainment and design visit campus on Feb. 22, 2014, to give short lectures as part of the university's TEDx program in Whitley Auditorium.

The university has received a STARS Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Using one centrally located trash can, instead of relying on the ones beside faculty members' desks, improved the Department of Physical Therapy Education's recylcing efforts.

Students and employees will square off against counterparts at hundreds of colleges and universities around the United States and Canada as part of a friendly competition to reduce landfill waste.

Eight new locations on campus make it even more convenient for students, faculty and staff to properly recycle broken or unwanted electronic equipment.

Per student and per square foot, the university's greenhouse gas emissions continue to decrease from initial data collected for Elon's first such inventory in 2008.