Campus Race to Zero Waste
This year, our campus is participating in the Campus Race to Zero Waste (CR2ZW), a national competition that encourages colleges and institutions to decrease trash and enhance sustainability practices. The...
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ECU’s 2024 Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Understanding current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a necessary step towards developing goals for lowering future GHG emissions and strategies to combat global climate change. There have been numerous changes in...
Seed Additional Resources
Seed Certification Resource List Diving Deeper: Additional tips and info on Seed Certification Credits
Green Office: Tree
Green Office: Sapling
Green Office: Sprout
Green Office: Seed
Sustainability 2024 Year in Review
The ECU Sustainability Program had quite a year in 2024. Here are some of our most notable accomplishments: Service Opportunities Harvested and donated over 300 pounds of food from the...
New Bat House at ECU
Did you know that bats are excellent pollinators? In fact, over 300 species of fruit depend on bats to pollinate them including avocadoes, mangoes, and bananas and roughly 80 medicines...
New Sustainability Course Designation
East Carolina University now has a Sustainability Course Designation! This will help students find courses about sustainability in their course catalog. The Brundtland Commission (1987) defines “sustainability” as: “meeting the...