Office of Sustainability
The Office of Sustainability develops, coordinates and supports the aggressive sustainability initiatives at Princeton University. We work collaboratively with our students, faculty, staff, regional and national affairs offices, as well as with our local Princeton community to promote sustainability efforts and practices. With our networking and collaborative efforts, we are also part of a larger professional community promoting sustainability initiatives at other colleges and universities.
Helpful Links:
- Sustainability at Princeton website
- TigerEnergy Mobile website
In The News
The S.C.R.A.P. Lab was featured in the March issue of PAW. The lab processed 43 tons of food waste in 2023, providing compost for campus grounds.
In December, the Green Infrastructure Committee visited Princeton to learn more about the stormwater management planning and infrastructure built over the past 15+ years.
Princeton was awarded the Plastic Pipe Institute’s Sustainable Achievement Award for 2022 for the TIGER Plant.
The use of mass timber in campus construction projects was recently featured in an article by PAW.
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) named Princeton the top-performing school for Water in their 2023 Sustainable Campus Index. The annual report “highlights the most sustainable colleges and universities.”
Did You Know
Princeton is one of only a few non-agricultural Universities to have their own greenhouse and nursery thanks to Landscape Architect Beatrix Jones Farrand, arguing successfully in 1912 we would save money, gain new plant varieties and acclimate plants to our own environments.