MAROON GOES GREEN!
Welcome to eco.uchicago.edu. Learn about and connect to the University of Chicago’s Environmental Community (UChicago ECo) — academics, students, and staff tackling scientific and social challenges related to the environment and sustainability through a range of research, education, campus, and civic engagement efforts.
LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
First e-vehicles join University of Chicago Facilities Services fleet
By Maureen McMahon Source: Office of Sustainability A new era is underway for the University of Chicago. Visitors to campus can now see four white all-electric Ford E-Transit vans making their rounds, each emblazoned with a bright, leafy-green UChicago Phoenix. The...
College students join Goodwill diversion to reuse effort during move out
Goodwill collected 4.4 tons of donations from UChicago students in June By Maureen McMahon Source: Office of Sustainability This June, over 4,200 College students grabbed their suitcases, boxes, and packing tape and performed an annual migration that, in one...
Chicago Climate-Tech Week
Chicago is coming together to create the first ever Climate Tech Week powered by TechChicago! As a city, we have an opportunity to focus our attention towards the opportunities, challenges and solutions towards achieving net zero emission and sustainable development...
Botany Pond Restoration Update
Inviting space on campus being restored to original glory as ‘wonder of biodiversity,’ with sustainability, faculty expertise central to effort (source: UChicago News 9/11/2023) Botany Pond, a popular and peaceful oasis just southeast of Cobb Gate in Hull Court, is...
UChicago pilot food program wins national award for campus sustainability
Dining effort to feed students during academic breaks becomes higher-ed model (UChicago News) When Christopher Toote first came to the United States from his home in the Bahamas, he arrived in Prairie View, Texas, to attend Prairie A&M University. That November,...
Midwest Climate Summit Student Leader Application
Midwest Climate Summit Student Leader Application Deadline to apply: Friday, August 4, 2023 More info and application are available here. The Midwest Climate Collaborative put together the Midwest Climate Summit in February 2023 at Washington University in St. Louis,...
Looking to join the community and don’t know where to start?
