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.

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In The News

Princeton’s S.C.R.A.P. Lab Turns Food Waste into Compost
March 11, 2024

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.

Green Infrastructure Committee Tours Princeton's Stormwater Management
March 11, 2024

In December, the Green Infrastructure Committee visited Princeton to learn more about the stormwater management planning and infrastructure built over the past 15+ years.

TIGER Wins Sustainable Achievement Award
March 1, 2024

Princeton was awarded the Plastic Pipe Institute’s Sustainable Achievement Award for 2022 for the TIGER Plant.  

Seeking Sustainability in Buildings, Princeton Invests in Mass Timber
Feb. 29, 2024

The use of mass timber in campus construction projects was recently featured in an article by PAW.

Princeton Named Top-performing School for Water
Oct. 30, 2023

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.