Sustainable Perspectives

Thanks to hard work and dedication by Facilities Management and Ralphie's Green Stampede staff and volunteers, CU Boulder was named overall winner in the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for the 2018 football season. Press release from the Pac-12 Conference: SAN FRANCISCO – One of the core pillars of Pac-12 Team...

The International Institute for Sustainable Labs (I2SL) annual conference is the preeminent gathering of individuals who work on laboratory sustainability issues throughout the United States and worldwide, bringing together engineers, designers, architects, safety professionals, scientists and sustainability professionals to discuss cutting-edge ideas to reduce the environmental impact of scientific research...

Jack DeBell is retiring after 38 years with the Environmental Center.

The Luger Lab, a Biocemistry lab headed by PI Karolin Luger , has won the CU Boulder Freezer Challenge, put on by CU Green Labs. The CU Boulder competition happened in conjunction with the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge and offered additional prizes to CU Boulder labs participating in the international...

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...

This year, CU Boulder was awarded Honorable Mention in the first-ever International Laboratory Freezer Challenge , coordinated through a partnership between the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) and My Green Lab . CU Boulder also earned Honable Mention in the 2017 competition held throughout North America. Twenty-two labs from...

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...

The League of American Bicyclists has recognized the University of Colorado Boulder with the Gold Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) award, joining 18 other Gold Bicycle Friendly Universities. The University of Colorado Boulder joins a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the United States transforming their campuses and the communities...

In the summer of 2014, CU-Boulder installed the university’s first landscape designed for and dedicated to pollinators. The landscape consists of barberry, currant, monarda, spirea, rudbeckia, yarrow, gooseberry, catmint and lavender, all of which should tolerate and beautify the roadside conditions. The first phase was installed along Broadway and the...