The Food Recovery Network, a national nonprofit focused on the would-be food waste of colleges and universities, has a UB chapter, which is run out of the UB Sustainability Office.
From a discussion on having more sustainability-themed movie nights on campus, came a group that seeks to unite multiple disciplines into completing sustainability projects. Northern Kentucky University’s first Sustainability Engagement & Action Group (SEAG) held their inaugural meeting over Zoom on Jan. 27. “We as a university do not have much focus on incorporating sustainability.
The University of Calgary has ranked within the top five per cent globally in progressing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) laid out by the United Nations (UN) in 2015.
This ranking comes from the Times Higher Education’s 2021 Universal Impact Ranking (URI), which is the only global ranking that assesses universities against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The 2021 UIR places UCalgary as 43rd out of 1,150 institutions from 94 countries, as well as sixth in Canada for progressing sustainability. The
Gauntlet spoke with Áine Keogh, Director of Sustainability Engagement & Reporting at the Office of Sustainability at UCalgary to discuss what this prestigious ranking means for our campus and students.
Mavericks,
Earth Day is just a week away, April 22, and there is no better time to reflect on our own personal commitments to living a more sustainable life.
As a member of the UNO community, you each have a vital role to play in inspiring, educating, and engaging people to serve as life-long stewards of our communities by conserving energy, water, and materials; protecting air, water, and habitat quality; and preventing waste and pollution, not just for the UNO community today, but for future generations of Mavericks. As an institution, we have affirmed UNO’s commitment to this important work in the UNO Sustainability Master Plan, developed in 2014.
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
Israel is embarking on clean infrastructure projects such as the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway, pictured on December 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The Finance Ministry is pushing ahead with new regulations to encourage insurance, pension and provident funds to invest up to NIS 100 billion ($31.4 billion) in large-scale infrastructure projects in Israel NIS 20 billion ($6.3 billion) of it in environmental-friendly initiatives the annual Environment 2050 conference heard on Thursday.
This amount is out of a total of some NIS 3 trillion ($942.5 million) managed by these institutions, said Moshe Bareket, supervisor of the Capital Market, Insurance, and Savings Authority.