Office of Sustainability

August 12, 2014  | By Katie Herrmann Got a reusable bag and an appetite for fresh, organic produce? If so, the students of F.H. King are ready to set you up with the ingredients for your …

August 5, 2014 | by Jill Sakai As the mid-August downtown leases turn over, overflowing dumpsters and buried curbs contain many items that can be reused or recycled.

  July 29, 2014 | By Sarah Olson and Katie Herrmann Temperatures exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit do not keep the sustainability Badger Volunteers out of the native plant gardens at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center in …

July 22, 2014 | By Sarah Olson Interns from the Office of Sustainability and WE CONSERVE have seen trash and treasure at eight of 15 academic buildings scheduled for trash audits this summer.

July 8, 2014 | By Sarah Olson The Office of Sustainability and WE CONSERVE will begin a comprehensive assessment of academic building waste this summer with a series of trash audits at 15 academic buildings.

July 8, 2014 | by Rachel Feil Renovating a building as iconic and loved as the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Memorial Union poses a unique challenge.

UW–Madison faculty, staff, and students are in China this week leading a workshop and business delegation focused on designing sustainable urban environments.

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.

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.

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 …