the UW Sustainability blog
the UW Sustainability blog
It's football season, and UW Transportation Services is again making it easy to bike to Husky games by providing a free bike valet service.
The bike valet is on Rainier Vista, just off the Burke-Gilman trail and close to Husky Stadium. You can drop your bike off anytime starting two hours before kickoff, and pick up in the hour after the game ends.
You can also learn about public transportation options at...
UW Sustainability is hiring a Green Labs Program Manager. This full-time staff position is responsible for building and implementing the new program around the following core focus areas: energy efficiency, water conservation, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, waste minimization, and sustainable purchasing. Using other university and institutional green labs program as a model, the Green Labs Program Manager will develop program offerings, incentives, green lab website resources and content, create toolkits, and more. This position will measure and analyze Green Labs Program success,...
The National Laboratory of the Rockies is hosting a collegiate Technology Recycling and Repurposing (T-ReX) Competition, challenging students to find creative yet practical ways to recycle or repurpose retired energy components and materials. Student teams interested in competing must apply by September 30, 2026.
The competition is designed to increase student awareness and knowledge about:
Practical solutions that help communities and project owners meet the challenges of retiring...
The Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) will be hosted by the Evergreen State College in Olympia on March 3-5, 2027. The conference is now accepting proposals for program content, speakers and sessions.
The 2027 conference theme is "The Future Starts Now: From Action to Sustainable Impact." Proposals will be accepted until October 16, 2026. See the details below or as a PDF.
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There are plenty of common questions that come up when talking to new Huskies on campus. UW Recycling is here to provide some answers.
We've all had those moments - holding an item over the recycling bin and trying to decide where it goes. Should it go in recycling? Compost? Landfill?
Here are five tips from UW Recycling to help you recycle properly on the Seattle campus.
Looking forward to living on campus? UW Recycling has nine tips to make move-in easier and reduce waste.
Don’t let those MUST HAVE shopping lists distract you - only get the basics that you’ll need. Before you start shopping, take note of all the things you use in your everyday life and will continue to use.
Ask yourself: Will I actually use this? If you don’t know, wait to buy the product. Save your money and help the environment by only buying things you will use and that meet...
UW students living in the North campus neighborhood can get rid of unwanted items for free during the Husky Neighborhood Cleanup. On August 27 and September 21 & 22 trucks will be on site accepting items for recycling or disposal.
A UW student Husky card will be required to drop off material. Items can be taken on those days to the median at 17th Ave NE & NE 47th St. from 1 to 5 p.m. or until the trucks are full.
Accepted items include:
Robert Halvorsen is a professor of economics at the University of Washington, Seattle. His area of focus area is environmental econ, resource economics and applied microeconomics. He has written numerous publications on environmental economics. His most recent publication “explorations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Essays in honor or Gardner M. Brown was written with co-authors Gardner Mallard Brown, and David F. Layton.
Interested in taking a course from Professor Halvorsen? He teaches Econ 436, Econ 535, Econ 435, and Econ 454.
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Cleaning out an office is not an easy task. UW Recycling has some guidelines to help you get rid of your unwanted items.
Following these procedures help your department:
…and minimize items that could be sent to the landfill!