Did you know that 40 million plastic water bottles go into the trash everyday where they take up valuable landfill space and leak toxic chemicals? The UW now has a refillable bottle station in almost …
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In the media: A new sustainability certificate will use the UW-Madison campus as a laboratory
For Cathy Middlecamp, placing academic disciplines in the context of sustainability comes naturally.Two years ago, Middlecamp decided to focus her introductory environmental studies course on issues specific to UW-Madison, using the campus as a living …
Student team wins international expo contest, goes green globally
An intercollegiate team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Purdue University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently won a competition to bring their urban agriculture project to Expo 2017 – known stateside as the World’s …
China Sustainable Urban Design Workshop underway
UW–Madison faculty, staff, and students are in China this week leading a workshop and business delegation focused on designing sustainable urban environments.
Designing solutions to mitigate climate change
by Katie Herrmann The DeLuca Forum in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery was buzzing last Thursday as 150 people from academia, industry, non-profits and the community joined to redefine climate solutions at the June 12 …
In the media: Applying sustainable principles to real world problems
As sustainability becomes more of an actual practice than just a buzzword, the University of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies this fall will begin to offer a 12-credit Sustainability Certificate to undergraduate students interested …
Recycle your e-waste
Did you know that it takes over a million years for a CD to totally breakdown in a landfill? Recycle your CDs, DVDs, flash drives or cords at Union South, Holt Commons, College Library, the …
Climate Quest Solutions Workshop June 12
The June 12 design-thinking Climate Quest Solutions Workshop will help 20-25 teams in the community-wide climate solutions challenge grow seed ideas into practical, high-impact climate change solutions.
Big 10 Conference, UW–Madison lead in collegiate green energy use
June 9, 2014 | by Sarah Olson The Big 10 Conference was the leading collegiate athletic conference in green energy usage in the 2013-2014 academic year, according to data collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mobile game explores campus sustainability
June 3, 2014 | by Jill Sakai Traversing the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus while consulting iPads and smartphones, the students in Cathy Middlecamp’s introductory environmental studies course could have been mistaken for anyone checking social …