sustainability

UCI provides a full menu of events, activities encouraging new approaches to sustainable nourishment

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

UCI ranks 16th among the most environmentally responsible universities worldwide, according to the just-released “Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges.”

Abigail Reyes divides her life into two parts, “B.T.” and “A.T.” – before Terence and after Terence. In February 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, an environmental activist and her “partner in work and love,” was kidnapped and murdered in Colombia. At the time, he was working to halt the plans of major oil companies to drill […]

The Newkirk Alumni Center is the latest UC Irvine building to attain the top designation awarded by the US Green Building Council for sustainable building practices. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum status is earned by building projects that excel in the implementation of earth-friendly design, building materials, energy usage and building […]

Five UC Irvine students have been awarded $2,500 fellowships to fund research and related projects that focus on food issues. They’re among 54 University of California students receiving support from the UC president’s Global Food Initiative Student Fellowship Program.

UC Irvine’s global sustainability effort has been chosen to be part of a White House initiative aimed at climate education and literacy that will distribute science-based information to students, teachers and the broader public.

UC Irvine is quadrupling the amount of green power it generates on-site with the addition of solar photovoltaic canopies on three campus parking structure roofs.

President Barack Obama connects the ‘Zots!’ at a historic all-graduate commencement