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Earth Month Festival April 25!
April 21, 2025

Join the Office of Sustainability, Undergraduate Student Government, and more sustainability-themed student organizations and allied departments as we celebrate Earth Month at Princeton

Free snacks and succulents will be provided (with prox sign in), as well as a host of activities, games, and prizes. 

TIGER Wins Sustainable Achievement Award
March 17, 2024

The Sustainable Achievement Award was awarded to Princeton and its project partners Dow Infrastructure and Agru America. The award is a part of the annual Plastic Pipe Institute (PPI) Project of the Year program.

Greening Move Out Diverts Nearly 43,000 Pounds from Landfill
June 24, 2024

In an effort to promote sustainability and reduce waste during the move-out process, Princeton University's Office of Sustainability runs the Greening Move Out program each spring. This year, the program saw a 7% increase in donations from 2023, totaling 42,761 pounds of items collected from students as they left their residences at the end of…

The Tallest Tree on Campus
April 27, 2022

One hundred million years ago there was a tree. It grew fast and tall and flourished in many places, including North America. Then 20 million years ago it vanished—globally extinct—save for the fossil record it left behind. Or so we humans thought. 

These plants have ‘underground weapons’ in ecological competition
Feb. 14, 2022

Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants — stems, flowers, leaves — but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars Hedin and