Leadership

Fall break is finally here. Many of us are probably planning to travel home for the holidays and may face the difficult task of teaching our relatives about the zero waste ideologies that we have grown to love here at CU. This is a very tricky topic to bring up...

In today’s highly competitive job market, students look for ways to make their resume stand out. Students can elevate their resume by participating in the online green chemistry certificate program offered by the University of Washington (UW). The certificate courses give graduates the tools to make a difference and find...

If you've made any sustainable choices or changes in your life, you may be interested in talking about them with others. In general, we are all more likely to adopt or change a behavior if people in our social group also practice the behavior. Sharing what has worked for you...

The CU Environmental Center awarded $1,300 to students who pitched their ideas for sustainability innovations on campus in the first ever Buffs Sustainable Solutions Challenge. An audience of CU students, administration, friends and family watched Monday night via Zoom as students pitched their ideas to reduce CU’s environmental footprint. While...

On Oct. 23-24, CU Boulder hosted a successful conference extension of the International Institutue for Sustainable Laboratories (I 2 SL) 2019 annual conference held in Denver . Attendees from national and international universities and laboratories toured the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC) and Laboratory (SEEL), and attended panels with...

Freshman year, I attended my first Environmental Board meeting and sat in awe of the impressively accomplished, seemingly omniscient faces of the E-Center’s governing body. Bylaw and budget lingo bounced around the room and took root in my brain, eventually becoming a second language as I committed my extracurricular time...

The following comments were delivered by Dave Newport, Environmental Center Director, to open the 26th Annual Campus Sustainability Summit on April 18, 2019. Welcome to to the 26th edition of the CU Campus Sustainability Summit. This annual event, aimed at highlighting sustainability successes across campus, is jointly planned, funded, organized...

After three years of working as a student employee at the Environmental Center, I can say that I’m pretty bad at watering plants. If you’ve been in the office lately, I can only hope they’ve livened up in the absence of my care. The truth is I never thought about...

Proud to be a Pac-12 Conference alum. Even more proud to be a Buff. That’s how I felt throughout the 2nd Annual Pac-12 Sustainability Conference hosted at none other than the stadium with the best view in college football, CU’s very own Folsom Field. According to Commissioner Larry Scott and...

Everyone always told me that college will be some of the best years of my life and that it goes by quickly. Man were they right. I remember going through the motions of orientation in the summer of 2014 and it feels like an eternity ago. To this day I...