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Sustainability

Farm manager Lindsay Allen (above) says the University’s affiliated teaching hospital started the farm atop BMC’s power plant “to provide superlocal, organic produce” for patients and staff and to reduce the environmental costs of procuring food.

Health & Medicine

A Farm in the Sky

October 17, 2017

coal

Politics

POV: Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan

April 5, 2017

Alexa Pisano showing her online store on a laptop

Classes

Selling Apparel to Benefit Ocean Conservation

February 21, 2017

Boston University students file past a "Locally Grown" sign in a BU dining hall. BU Dining Services hit its goal of providing 20% sustainable food three years early.

Accolades

Going Green Earns Plaudits for BU

February 13, 2017

Anthony Janetos giving presentation

University News

Climate Task Force Meets Tonight

January 31, 2017

Boston University School of Law tower

Law

School of Law Project Earns Gold LEED Certification

January 26, 2017

squash soup

Food & Dining

A Holiday Recipe from Peter Ungár of Tasting Counter

November 21, 2016

Angela Yuan (CAS’18) looks at a bag of vegetables at BU Farmers Market

University News

BU’s Farmers Market Supports Local Businesses

October 19, 2016

Workers on the job at Red’s Best, a Boston seafood wholesaler

University News

BU Increases Its Target for Sustainable Food Sources

October 14, 2016

Professor Anthony Janetos gives a presentation at the BU ACSRI Forum on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Sustainability

Trustees Adopt Broad Climate Change Strategy

September 20, 2016

a chef prepares a pizza while students line up to get food

Dining Hall

Student Feedback Influences Dining Services Changes

September 20, 2016

Matt Thacker holds a blow horn at the Divestment Rally at Marsh Plaza

Climate Change

Students Rally for Fossil Fuel Divestment

September 15, 2016

Sustainability Ambassador Lena Adams (SAR’19) directs Composting Comes Out during an orientation

Food & Dining

Putting Emphasis on Sustainability at Orientation

September 2, 2016

Commuter Rail Train

Staff

New MBTA Pass Discount for Employees

August 4, 2016

Earth

POV: Beyond the Clean Power Plan

May 10, 2016

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz

Climate Change

US Secretary of Energy Moniz to Receive Honorary Degree

May 9, 2016

Sustainability@BU

Students

BU Celebrates Earth Day 2016

April 21, 2016

Professor Anthony Janetos gives a presentation at the BU ACSRI Forum on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Earth

ACSRI Proposes Creation of Broad Climate Plan

April 20, 2016

White House Summit on Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

BU Researchers Welcome Obama’s Final Budget Proposals

February 25, 2016

Gas Leak California

Science & Technology

CAS Prof Investigates “the Mother of All Gas Leaks”

January 25, 2016

CAS Prof Investigates “the Mother of All Gas Leaks”