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UNC-Chapel Hill's sustainability initiative, housed within the UNC Institute for the Environment.
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2025 Sustainability Social ✅

19 University units, 12 student organizations, and 3 community groups gathered in the Student Union yesterday. It's so much fun to see this event grow every year! @unc-ie.bsky.social
UNC Institute for the Environment flag stands on the left, with the UNC IE table beside it, on the right. Three students talk to two people at the table. Orange County Solid Waste's table has a green table cloth. Two people talk to a student that approached the table. A representative from the NC Botanical Garden talks with a student during the Sustainability Social. A faculty member talks with a staff member sitting at the Center for Public Engagement with Science table.
September 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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One of our Carolina Sustainability Council members, Julie Jacobson Vann, joins this virtual panel on reducing harmful plastics in healthcare! Tune in on June 20 at 1 pm ET!

Register: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/reduci...
"Reducing Harmful Plastics in Healthcare: From Awareness to Action." June 20, 2025 at 1 - 2 pm. Featuring Julie Jacobson Vann, Bill Pevec and Yvonne Huckleberry.
June 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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UNC Research is campus as a laboratory.

Battle Grove, a stretch of green space in the middle of campus, serves as the perfect spot for citizen science work, research and water quality monitoring. 🔍🌱

Discover the impact: www.unc.edu/carolinas-re...

#UNCResearchisNC #UNC #SustainableCarolina
UNC Research is campus as a laboratory. Research opportunities abound at Battle Grove, a lush green spot in the center of campus. Ever since Battle Branch Stream was brought out of its pipes beneath the ground in 2017, the space has teemed with wildlife. That makes it the perfect place for UNC Biology Professor Allen Hurlbert’s ecological community studies and citizen science activities. It also served as an excellent location for Martina Gonzalez Bertello’s ’23 graduate work on water quality and stream nutrient removal with the Piehler Lab.
May 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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UNC Research is creativity and intellect.

It's an honor to present the Prize for Excellence in Sustainability Research at the #UNC Office for Undergraduate Research's Celebration of Undergraduate Research.

Discover the impact: www.unc.edu/carolinas-re...

#UNCResearchisNC #UNC #SustainableCarolina
UNC Research is creativity and intellect. For 26 years, the UNC Office for Undergraduate Research has hosted the Celebration of Undergraduate Research. For three years, UNC OUR has given hashtag#SustainableCarolina the opportunity to award outstanding research related to topics like energy, water, waste, air quality, biodiversity and more. This year, Sustainable Carolina judged 27 posters for its Prize for Excellence in Sustainability Research. A group of first-year students took home first prize. UNC Research is North Carolina.
May 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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UNC Research is excellence in sustainability.

Working under the @unc-ie.bsky.social, #SustainableCarolina provides guidance to capstone courses, the Sustainable Triangle Field Site and campus labs.

Discover the impact: www.unc.edu/carolinas-re...

#UNCResearchisNC #UNC #SustainableCarolina
UNC Research is excellence in sustainability. Five years ago, sustainability at Carolina found a new home in the UNC Institute for the Environment. Sustainable Carolina advances and amplifies efficiency initiatives in campus operations, research and academics. In 2025, Sustainable Carolina reintroduced its lab sustainability program, piloting it in four labs on the medical side of campus. Any lab can become certified by taking on sustainability measures in their space. UNC Research is North Carolina.
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Happy #EarthWeek 🌎 We are kicking off our celebrations today with our Festival on the Green Roof. We are thrilled to partner with Carolina Dining Services this year to bring their farm stand to the event!

Full list of events here: sustainable.unc.edu/events/earth...
Graphic with a background that looks like cardboard. The middle of the graphic reads, "Festival on the Green Roof + CDS Farm Stand." The top reads, "Monday, April 21 @ 3:30 - 6:30 pm, Chase Plaza." Graphic with a cardboard background reads,"We're collecting reusable tote bags to donate to the Carolina Cupboard and Inter-Faith Council."
April 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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When rain falls on campus, some is carried from drains to outfalls. This water flows into creeks, streams and ultimately — Jordan Lake.

Last week, we joined staff from waste reduction and recycling, @unc-ie.bsky.social, and stormwater to pick up litter in and around a campus creek. #EarthMonth
April 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Our monthly newsletter came out yesterday, just in time for you to make all the plans for your Earth Month celebrations.

Check out what's happening this month: mailchi.mp/unc/march-25
Graphic that reads, "Happy Earth Month." There is a globe in the center of the graphic, popping up behind some green hills. There are trees to the left and right of the globe. A bag and a cup are also on the graphic and both have a recycling symbol on them.
April 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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#GiveUNC is winding down! Help us reduce the University’s environmental footprint and empower the next generation of sustainability leaders.

Donate to @unc-ie.bsky.social today: giveunc.unc.edu/cause/unc-in...
Give UNC graphic features a Carolina blue background. In the middle, an image shows a student surrounded by green plants looking in containers holding organisms found in a campus creek. The graphic reads, "It's giving...Sustainability."
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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We're celebrating Creek Week at #UNC 🚶🌱💧

Four years and running, our creek tour grew out of a partnership with the Department Of Exercise And Sport Science and our stormwater friends at UNC Environment, Health and Safety.

Looking forward to taking more students out to Battle Grove this week!
Students look in the creeks in search of critters in one of the ponds at Battle Grove Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance Area. Stephanie and Janet, two members of UNC EHS staff, smile for a photo after a tour with students. Water flowing down the step pools at Battle Grove Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance Area.
March 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Caught the Old Well in just the right light a couple weeks ago!

Last summer, #UNC landscapers started the hard work of bringing 30 different types of native plants into the garden beds surrounding this campus symbol.
UNC-Chapel Hill's Old Well is on the left side of the photo. The photo is taken near ground level, highlighting small grasses and plants in the garden beds around this campus symbol. The sun shines behind the top of the Old Well. UNC-Chapel Hill's Old Well is on the right side of the photo. The photo is taken near ground level, highlighting small grasses and plants in the garden beds around this campus symbol. The sun shines throughout the area.
March 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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We are so ready for this year's Clean Tech Summit, set for March 24 & 25. Are you in?
@unc-ie.bsky.social

Register today: https://buff.ly/3CHQ8rg
February 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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We love data! Regardless of how you're feeling about yesterday's prediction, check out these @noaa.gov rankings on our fellow groundhog meteorologists.

https://buff.ly/4hnBBQE
A groundhog stretches over the grass, raising one of its paws.
February 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Our Sustainability Analyst Melanie Elliott calculated another year of downward trending emissions on campus for 2023.

Ahead of calculating our 2024 emissions, Melanie will meet with the University units that provide us with data on January 12, kicking off a new season of data collection!
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Showing up on the first day of a new semester on a new platform 👋
Carolina's mascot, Rameses, wears a lab coat at an event in a large multipurpose room. He walks past the UNC Institute for the Environment's table, where students stand behind informational signs about field sites.
January 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM