Redesigned with more information on all things Sustainable at Princeton, and how you can get involved.

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.

Princeton University takes "net-zero" emissions from theory to reality as it enters a new phase of campus development.

Over the past few years, chances are you’ve walked by a fence or down some stairs with vibrant Princeton Builds messaging. The Princeton Builds campaign was initiated to help engage and inform the campus community during a period of historic growth.

As a part of the campaign, each major project fence was lined with vibrant mesh banners…

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…

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. 

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