Programs & Initatives

The potential for sustainability is nearly limitless and is a great investment into the future for generations. Many corporations, colleges and cities, and more have been moving toward this goal for years.

If you've been looking for ways to build team spirit and help care for the environment, you'll want to consider adding an Adopt-a-Highway program to your list of options.What It IsThrough the Adopt-a-Highway program, community groups take responsibility for regularly cleaning a selected stretch of roadway.

When we recycle a built object, the hope is that we can remove materials that are dangerous to the environment, to human and animal exposure, and we can repurpose materials in the original--free them up to be safely used again. The objects we recycle can be as simple as metal bottle caps or as complex as an ocean-going tanker.

Members of the government and industry in Great Britain are calling on the government to impose a new tax on disposable coffee cups of 25 pence each, and if that doesn't work, to ban disposable cups altogether. The situation is a mess and produces too much trash and litter.

Like nations with the Paris Climate Accord, campuses across the United States have also joined into an agreement to act on climate change. Hundreds of campuses have signed an agreement called the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge.

We all know that recycling is important and that when we finish our bottle of water or soda that it should go into the recycling bin instead of the trash. But it can be hard to get a real sense of what your recycling efforts are accomplishing.

Recycling is perhaps one of the easiest steps you can take to improve the environment. Common items like clothing and electronics do not need to spend the rest of their life in landfills.