In celebration of Campus Sustainability Month, Sustainable Carolina is excited to release our 2023 Campus Sustainability Report. As the hub for sustainability at Carolina, our team looks forward to highlighting the challenges and successes of sustainability every year.
This year’s report features an expanded GHG: By the Numbers, detailing the changes in energy efficiency and vehicle emissions that occurred over the last academic year. These two pages feature a bar graph illustrating our campus emissions, grouping them into five categories: stationary combustion, purchased electricity, air travel, commuting and “other.”
Also new this year, the report contains a table of the Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee (RESPC) projects for the 2022-2023 school year. The cost and sustainability benefit of each project is listed.
Finally, the report shows how we’ve updated our website, enhancing website navigation and accessibility. UNC Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Carolina partnered with the UNC Digital Accessibility Office and UNC Creative for this project.
We recognize that we may have missed some sustainability successes and ask University departments to send us any achievements from the 2023-2024 year they would like to see included in next year’s report.
A Complete Approach to Sustainability
- Greenhouse Gases: By the Numbers
- Optimizing Operations
- Climate Action
- Campus Sustainability Fund, emissions tracking
- Campus Water Footprint
- UNC stormwater program
- Waste Recovery
- Move-in recycling support, residence hall waste, move-out donations, Eat Sort Win dining campaign
- Campus Operations Partners
- Climate Action
- Curricula
- College of Arts & Sciences
- Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences (EMES)
- Environment, Ecology and Energy (E3P) program
- E3P Capstone Course
- Sustainable Triangle Field Site (STFS)
- UNC Department of Geography and the Environment
- UNC Hussman School of Journalism
- UNC School of Data Science and Society
- Gillings on the Ground
- Walking Tours
- Experiential Education
- EcoStudio
- Sustainable Tar Heels Internship Program
- UNC Institute for the Environment Field Sites
- Microplastics Research at Highlands Field Site; Algal blooms, landfill leachate and King Tides at UNC IMS; UNC Research at the Highlands Field Site
- EcoStudio
- Research & Innovation
- Ackerman Center for Excellence
- Energy Transition Initiative
- Environmental Finance Center
- UNC Water Institute
- Department of Geography and the Environment
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Data-Driven EnviroLab
- Leibfarth Lab
- Applied Physical Sciences
- BeAM Makerspaces
- North Carolina Collaboratory
- Campus drinking water safety
- Grant Spotlight: Islands in the Sky
- Student Leadership
- CompostMates
- Epsilon Eta
- Vegans for Peace
- Meantime Coffee Company
- UNC Undergraduate Student Government, Executive Branch, Department of Environmental Affairs
- Carolina Outing Club
- Student Leadership Highlight: Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee
- Community Engagement
- Orange County
- Town of Chapel Hill
- UNC Transportation and Parking
- Center for Public Engagement with Science (CPES)
- Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
- North Carolina Botanical Garden
- Carolina Tree Heritage
- Sustainable Carolina Communications
- Monthly newsletter
- Sustainable Carolina blog
- Social media
- Sustainable Carolina Podcast
- Website Update