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Person washing his hands
June 3, 2019
Yale’s Facilities Services recently started a sustainable hand-soap program in the residential colleges where refillable containers of a highly-concentrated foam soap mixed...
Yale students at commencement ceremonies
May 17, 2019
Yale’s 318th Commencement will be a bit more “green” than it has in the past, owing to a reduction in single-use plastic water bottles. In previous years, Yale distributed...
April 25, 2019
This week the Office of Sustainability hosted the State of Sustainability Awards Luncheon to celebrate the university’s progress during the 2018-2019 academic year and honor...
Pierson students discussing sustainability week.
April 10, 2019
This spring, the Office of Sustainability, through their Sustainability Service Corps program, has worked to engage students in the undergraduate residential colleges by...
Spring Salvage worker vest
April 4, 2019
Yale Facilities likes a green campus. The leadership and staff are enthusiastically supporting two campus-wide programs to support the reuse of materials.   Declutter,...
April 1, 2019
Yale Grounds Maintenance continually looks for ways to improve operations and this year, one such change has successfully addressed the challenges of landscape watering on...