Sustainable UNH

Incoming first-years and students returning to campus can furnish their rooms and apartments on the cheap and help the environment this fall, thanks to the efforts of a new student-led initiative. The project, called Trash 2 Treasure, collected more than 10,000 items discarded by students moving out in May; items will be sold at a [...]

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Sustainability touches every aspect of a student’s life at UNH. Don’t take our word for it: watch UNH students James Written by Sara.

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How time flies. Welcome back UNH students! Our gift to you? Our first fall newsletter! Check it out for stories on UNH earning STARS Gold, Climate Counts’ new partnership with UNH, a profile of Dr. Paula Salvio from Education, and much more. Written by Sara.

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This weekend, en route to a wedding in Toronto, Canada, I drove past a large windfarm in a town called Clinton, NY (very far north and remote).  I had seen windfarms in France a few years ago, but this was the first time I had seen a windfarm in the U.S., and definitely the first [...]

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This week UNH received our rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) program. Though, we’re received awards and recognition before this one really means a lot to us. STARS is the first ranking/rating program for sustainability in higher education that is based on [...]

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Yesterday, UNH submitted its very first public STARS score, and I am happy to report that we got the gold! We will be doing more press around this soon, but in the meantime I wanted to thank all of the MANY UNH departments, offices, and people who worked with us to collect, analyze and submit [...]

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