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In April, we celebrated 50 Years of Earth Day and Recycling at OSU, recognizing events in 1970 that led to a campus wide recycling collection program. It not only served as a driver for recycling at OSU but also in Corvallis, the State of Oregon, and even across the country. Our new Sustainability Timeline catalogues 50 years of community and planetary caring by the OSU family. Let's work together on 50 more years of success!
This spring, OSU building controls technicians are taking special care to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings by reducing heating and cooling inputs to a minimum! By allowing building temperatures to fluctuate more than usual, OSU will dramatically save energy, money, carbon emissions and wear and tear on heating and cooling systems.
You can already see the reductions happening on our real time energy dashboard!
OSU has always been a place of innovation and excellence in environmental sustainability. For the 50th Earth Day this year, the Sustainability Office has compiled major achievements since 1970 in an interactive timeline. We have made progress in areas such as energy use, recycling, food consumption, transportation, and won many awards along the way.
Install Ecosia, the browser that plants trees, as your default today and encourage your peers to join you! Our custom link will count your searches towards Oregon State University's tree count total. This is another easy way that we can create a more sustainable virtual community during distance learning!
Step 1: Visit http://Ecosia.co/oregonstate
Step 2: Add to browser
Step 3: Add extension
If you already have Ecosia and want your searches to count towards the OSU total: uninstall, delete your cookies, and re-install using the steps above! #sustainablebeavs
In February, 2019, OSU received its eighth Gold designation in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System, making it one of a small handful of colleges and universities to reach that milestone, and use STARS each year. STARS provides a complete set of sustainability assessment data for university curriculum, research, operations and outreach.
As shown in "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency", scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the graphical indicators presented, they have declared, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.
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Congratulations to University Events on earning the copper-level Green Office Certification! They have been hard at work ‘greening’ their space and they’ve done an amazing job! Some highlights from their results include: Providing reusable dishes and silverware for employees. Utilizing OSU Surplus to find and dispose of office furniture and other items. Consolidating office orders […]
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Congratulations to The Valley Library on earning the gold-level Green Office Certification! The Sustainability Office has been working with The Valley Library on ways to ‘green’ their space and they’ve done an amazing job! Some highlights from their results include: Participating in a department composting program. Setting all library computers to print double-sided as a […]
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It’s officially Earth Month! This year, April 22nd will mark the 50th anniversary of the original Earth Day, a day in 1970 when over 10% of the U.S. population took to the streets in protest of environmental degradation and the modern environmental movement was born. This protest spurred the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency […]
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The Sustainability Office is recruiting for student employees! Join a committed team by applying for one of these coveted student worker positions that help make OSU more sustainable – both behind the scenes and front and center! We are currently recruiting for three positions: CLOSED: Graphic Design Student Design print media such as posters, brochures […]
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