In Our Nature

Join us for the 2021 UW Sustainability Fair on the main floor of the HUB to celebrate sustainability efforts across the University of Washington. UW departments and students groups will be on hand to discuss their sustainability efforts and how you can get involved. You'll also be able to learn more about the UW's Sustainability Action Plan, which guides our sustainability actions.

The Sustainability Fair will be Wednesday, October 6, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event is part of of National Campus Sustainability Month. Learn more...

Update: the video from this event is posted below

On October 27, join us at 12 p.m. for a virtual tri-campus event on Food Systems as part of October's National Campus Sustainability Month. Faculty and staff from UW's Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses will discuss topics including food systems, campus...

UW Sustainability has been working on achieving Target 5 of the UW Sustainability Action Plan: Reducing carbon emissions from air travel five percent by 2025. A working group of faculty, staff and students representing environmental science, political science, public service, procurement, and other departments and disciplines meet regularly to work towards this goal.

UW Sustainability is working to connect with an even broader audience to better understand attitudes towards travel, carbon offsets...

Since 2012, Starbucks has grown into one of the University of Washington’s main partners on campus, with their continued efforts in uniting the student body and community through goals and initiatives.

Starbucks is a main partner in helping create Family Resource Exchanges which are slowly spreading across the Puget Sound, providing thousands of unsheltered families with necessities; an example includes partnering with UW Food Pantry to address food insecurity, and...

Hey! I'm Leena, the new UW Sustainability Graphic Designer.  I will be going into my senior year at UW, finishing up a double degree in Marketing and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts.  I'm passionate about accessible and inclusive visual communication, and have the main aim of creating spaces for conversation and vulnerability in my work.  After graduation, I'm hoping to pursue a career in visual design that allows me to combine my fields of study and solve problems with business thinking rooted in creativity.

I call the Bay Area home, although I spent a lot of my childhood in...

There is still time to register for the Fall quarter Environmental Innovation Practicum. This course is designed to help you discover how entrepreneurial innovation is addressing some of our most pressing environmental issues, why sustainability should be embedded in the DNA of every business and the process involved in taking a great idea forward. The practicum is instructed by Chris Metcalfe,...

Sustainability is at the heart of our healing mission – and we are proud to share that our sustainability strategies are being recognized with a national award. Harborview Medical Center received a 2021 Environmental Excellence Award from Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to environmental...

It's almost football season, and UW Athletics needs your help to keep Husky Stadium clean, green and beautiful. Sign up today to be a part of the 2021-2022 Game Day Sustainability Team! 

UW Athletics is looking for volunteers to engage with fans before each game to encourage sustainable practices in the stadium and tailgate areas. This could include helping fans correctly recycle and compost, manning information tables, and generally encouraging Husky fans to be sustainable. You can sign up for a single game or for...

Rasheena Fountain has recently joined our team as the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Coordinator for UW Sustainability and the Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF). Rasheena was born in Chicago but spent some of her childhood in Central Illinois. Her experience on the west side of Chicago and Central Illinois shapes her lens on the natural world and its inhabitants. In both settings, nature was constant, though she sees how systemic barriers affected how well more than humans and...

Global Renewables Infrastructure Development (GRID) is an RSO that works on designing, optimizing, installing, monitoring and assessing the societal impacts of solar energy systems, with a specific focus on projects that advance equitable access to electricity. The group has an interdisciplinary mix of graduate and undergraduate students with backgrounds in engineering, natural sciences, social sciences and more.

GRID is currently looking for new members, and on Tuesday, May 25, at 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. will host a general...