Office of Sustainability
The sustainable features we incorporate into our buildings help support our sustainability plan as well as provide Campus as Lab educational opportunities.
Professor Eileen Zerba working on the Butler Green Roof Project.
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 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.”
With this project Princeton will be among the most electrified fleets in the country.
The composting efforts at Princeton were recently profiled in Waste 360. The article features Gina Talt, Project Manager, Office of Sustainability, and the various ways the office is working with campus partners to enact its composting…
Greening Move-Out aims to collect donations from undergraduates leaving the dorms for the summer or after graduation for reuse or donation.
The P-rade had a new caboose this year. Following the long stream of orange and black was a new green message. The sanitation team in Building Services debuted its new truck during the event, complete with a new wrap emphasizing the sustainability efforts happening across Princeton University.
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.