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The Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) is hiring two undergraduate student roles. The CSF is a student-run and student-funded program at the University of Washington working towards a justice-centered sustainability movement.

The open roles are an Outreach and Connections Coordinator and a Grant and Project Coordinator. The positions pay $22/hour for around 19 hours a week. Both positions would ideally start on April 21, and due to the extensive training involved in these roles CSF is looking for students who are...

The UW Tower Green Square Project (a Campus Sustainability Fund grant project) is recruiting for one grant-funded student worker to maintain the garden project from March-October as part of the grant implementation. This is a part-time (up to 19 hours a week) position paying $20.76/hour.

Ideal candidates are hard-working, friendly initiative-takers with a strong interest in gardening, urban food production, and making community connections. This candidate...

UW Recycling's 2025 Trash Art Contest opens February 12! Participants must create an art piece from items normally thought of as waste or a literary piece about waste and sustainability. This contest is open to all UW students, faculty and staff.

Categories include:

• 2D art
• 3D art
• Textile art
• Literature

Submissions are due March 28, 2025 at 4 p.m. PDT. Winners for each category will receive $100 or $50 e-gift cards to a low-waste shop or art store.

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The Climate Equity and Resilience Summer Institute (CESRI), formerly called the Science Justice Summer School, is a three-week summer program for current and recent graduate students (master’s, doctoral, and post-doc) studying any discipline who are interested in learning about climate resilience and justice from diverse perspectives. The program will be hosted from June 16 through July 4, 2025, split between the UW Seattle campus and UW Pack Forest. 

Students...

Campus Race to Zero Waste (CRZW) starts again at the University of Washington! For the thirteenth year, the UW will participate in the friendly recycling, composting and waste reduction competition between colleges and universities.

CRZW runs February 2 to March 29, 2025. UW Recycling is organizing and promoting activities focused on waste reduction as part of the competition. Here are some ways you can participate:

SEED Tabling •  February 4 & 5 ...

Glumac is looking for summer interns passionate about sustainability. The Sustainability Intern will be located in Seattle for a nine-week program from June through August, and will have the chance to work side-by-side with experienced professionals on real projects that make a tangible impact, including a chance to work on the development of the University of Washington's Sustainability Action Plan.

The intern will also be part of an intern cohort, collaborating with up to 12 other interns from various disciplines and locations. Throughout...

The University of Washington recently held two Community Kickoff events to launch the development of an updated Sustainability Action Plan for the UW tri-campus. The events, one in-person and one online, brought together faculty, staff, students, and external partners to help shape UW's sustainability vision for 2050.

The University’s first Sustainability Action Plan was published in 2020 and includes ten key targets ranging from engagement and research to emissions reduction and waste management. While progress has been made in several areas, the...

Huskies for Equitable Sustainability (HuES) was launched this Fall by UW Sustainability to provide opportunities for UW students to engage in intersectional sustainability efforts on campus. The monthly meetings are open to all UW students across the tri-campus, and provide an inclusive space to learn about sustainability initiatives and inform UW Sustainability's goals.  Meetings are held both in-person and over zoom, and recorded for later viewing to provide opportunities for as many students as possible to connect.

UW Medicine was recently featured on the "Knowledge on the Go" podcast hosted by Vizient.

The podcast episode features Louise Simpson, UW Medicine Hospitals Associate Vice President for Clinical Integration; Gabriella Henkels, Sustainability and Waste Manager at Harborview Medical Center; and Tara Biss, Value Analysis Portfolio Manager, UW Medicine Supply Chain.

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Hello! I am a fourth-year student majoring in environmental studies and minoring in law and justice at the University of Washington in Seattle. I am originally from the Los Angeles area in California, but desired a cooler, more green space which led me to the PNW. I have taken a special interest in social sustainability over my academic career with the intention of making people a main component of the environmental narrative.

As the Collaborations Intern, I'll be working to create more connections with UW Sustainability and other groups on campus, especially student groups and RSOs...