Northeastern University
Founded in Boston in 1898, Northeastern University is a high impact research university renowned for our experiential learning model featuring a seamless integration of classroom learning with real-world research, professional, global, and service experiences. Anchored by the world's largest cooperative education program, Northeastern prepares students for a lifetime of achievement, and allows them to make an impact on the world before they graduate.
Our one-of-a-kind global university system of 13 campuses, 49 alumni communities, and 3,500+ employer partners forms a dynamic community for learning and exploring new boundaries. Our conviction is that maximizing our positive impact in the world requires a commitment to fostering sustainable human communities, which in turn requires learners to grow as resilient, inventive, and collaborative problem solvers, adept at putting ideas into action.
By fully erasing the artificial boundaries that separate higher education from the world, we make Northeastern the indispensable university for educating talent and developing sustainable solutions for humanity’s future.
Contact
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Web and social media
Web: https://sustainability.northeastern.edu/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainablenu/
University of Michigan
One of the USA’s top public universities, the University of Michigan (U-M) has been a leader in research, learning and teaching for more than 200 years. With one of the highest research volumes of any public university in the country, U-M is advancing new solutions and knowledge in areas ranging from public health to driverless vehicle technology, social justice and carbon neutrality. Its main campus in Ann Arbor comprises 19 schools and colleges; there are also regional campuses in Dearborn and Flint, the nationally ranked Michigan Medicine health system, and a world-renowned intercollegiate athletics program.
Sustainability, climate action and environmental justice are core to the university's mission to develop leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future. U-M is committed to achieving university-wide carbon neutrality by 2040, achieving a net-zero endowment by 2050, ensuring environmental justice and fostering a shared culture of sustainability.
Contact
Shana Weber
Web and Social Media
Web: https://planetblue.umich.edu/
X: @umich
Instagram: @uofmichigan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-michigan/
Duke University
Founded in 1924, Duke University is private, research institution in Durham, NC. Younger than most other prestigious U.S. research universities, Duke University consistently ranks among the very best. Duke’s graduate and professional schools — in business, divinity, engineering, the environment, law, medicine, nursing and public policy — are among the leaders in their fields. Duke’s home campus is situated on nearly 9,000 acres in Durham, N.C, a city of more than 200,000 people. Duke also is active internationally through the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, Duke Kunshan University in China and numerous research and education programs across the globe. More than 75 percent of Duke students pursue service-learning opportunities in Durham and around the world through DukeEngage and other programs that advance the university’s mission of “knowledge in service to society.” Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has more than 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge.
As Duke University enters its second century, President Vincent Price has directed the University to marshal its collective resources and capabilities to address the climate crisis. Stemming from President Price’s call to action, the Duke Climate Commitment aims to build on Duke’s long-standing work to proactively create impactful, just, and durable climate and sustainability solutions that place society on the path toward a resilient, flourishing world with mitigated climate risks. To accomplish this major undertaking, the Commitment weaves climate and sustainability through every aspect of the University’s core missions of education, research, sustainable operations, community partnerships, and external engagement.
Contact
[email protected]
Web and Social Media
Web:
https://climate.duke.edu/
https://sustainability.duke.edu/
Instagram:
@sustainableduke
Columbia University
Columbia University is an important center of research and a distinguished learning environment for about 37,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It attracts a diverse and international faculty, staff, and student body to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions.
Columbia commits to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner. At Columbia, we recognize that to be truly sustainable is to take a multi-faceted and multi-tiered approach. We are looking to tackle climate and sustainability issues through world-renowned research occurring right here on our campus, engaging staff leadership and individual participation. Ranging from energy conservation efforts to award-winning reuse programs and recycling efforts, we're dedicated to creating a more sustainable planet for all.
Contact
[email protected]
Web and Social Media
Web: https://sustainable.columbia.edu/
Instagram: @sustainablecolumbia
Facebook: @SustainableColumbia
Yale University
Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and twelve professional schools. Yale is a medium-sized research university, with 6,590 undergraduate students and 8,344 graduate and professional students.
Yale established its Office of Sustainability in 2004 and its initial greenhouse GHG reduction commitment in 2005. Its current climate commitment is to achieve zero actual carbon emissions by 2050 with an interim goal to reach net zero emissions by 2035. The University’s Sustainability Plan is shaped into nine priorities: leadership, empowerment, health and wellbeing, climate action, stewardship, built environment, materials, mobility, and technology.
In addition to its commitments to operational excellence, Yale has invested in academic sustainability leadership through its Planetary Solutions Program, its Professional Schools, and many of its Centers and Institutes.
Contact
[email protected]
Web and Social Media
Web: sustainability.yale.edu
Web: planetarysolutions.yale.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yalesustainability/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yalesustainability/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yalesustainability/reels/
Universidad Veracruzana
Universidad Veracruzana (UV) is a public state university founded in 1944 with a strong spirit of social commitment in promoting the welfare of society in the state of Veracruz and Mexico. Established in 5 campuses with presence in 27 urban and rural municipalities throughout the state of Veracruz, its social outreach, artistic, intercultural and sustainability programmes aim to bring together the university’s teaching and research functions and the needs of the productive, public and social sectors.
With more than 75,000 students, and 12,000 scholars and staff, UV is the 13th largest university in Mexico. Its academic activities are organised in 6 areas of knowledge: arts, humanities and social sciences, health sciences, biological and agricultural sciences, basic sciences and engineering, economic and administrative sciences.
Comprising 120 faculties and research centres, and more than 50 cultural and outreach premises established in 27 urban and rural municipalities throughout the state of Veracruz, its social outreach, artistic, intercultural and sustainability programmes bring together the university’s teaching and research functions and the needs of the productive, public and social sectors.
The UV’s sustainability programme aims to integrate all aspects of sustainability in its core activities, as well as in the life, practices and collective worldview of its community and other groups of society.
Contact
Laura Odila Bello Benavides
Coordinator for Sustainability
[email protected]
Web and Social media
Web: https://www.uv.mx/cosustenta/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sustentabilidaduv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoSustenta
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmPvj5iuFrJjXKWWJrtt5sA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosustenta_uv/
Concordia University
Concordia University is a next-generation university, continually reimagining the future of higher education. Located in the vibrant and multicultural city of Montreal, Concordia is the top-ranked university in North America founded within the last 50 years and annually registers some 51,000 students through its innovative approach to experiential learning and cross-functional research.
As research hub and educator, sustainability is at the core of everything we do. From how we invest our endowment to campus food and waste practices, we’re defining how universities contribute to a cleaner tomorrow. Among our commitments are a voluntary review of our performance on each of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the adoption of a sustainable investment policy that includes divestment from the coal, oil and gas industries, and achieving carbon neutrality by 2040. With our motivated community of students, staff, faculty and researchers, Concordia is committed to overcoming the world’s most pressing problems.
Contact
[email protected]
Web and Social Media
Web: https://www.concordia.ca/about/sustainability.html
Instagram: @cusustainabilityoffice
LinkedIn: Office of Sustainability
University of Toronto
Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto (U of T) has evolved into Canada’s leading institution of learning, discovery and knowledge creation. U of T operates across three campuses in downtown Toronto, Mississauga, and Scarborough, as well as nine fully affiliated hospitals and 12 community-affiliated hospitals and health-care sites that offer teaching and research experiences for students in the health sciences that are among the best in the world. The University has over 95,000 students, 20,000 faculty and staff, and more than 620,000 alumni around the world. With 700 undergraduate and 200 graduate programs drawing from top-ranked faculty, the University offers a variety of academic options unparalleled in Canada.
U of T is one of few universities in the world that have both depth and breadth of research excellence across many disciplines. We are proud to be one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, driven to invent and innovate. Our twin missions in higher education and advanced research are informed by a third mission: to advance sustainability within our institution and beyond. Sustainability in the broad sense, as set out by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is at the heart of our teaching and learning, research, scholarship, university operations, investments, engagement, and partnerships.
Contact email: [email protected]
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has a proud tradition of translating knowledge into social-minded action that dates back to founder Benjamin Franklin. This tradition of active pragmatism, articulated in Franklin’s maxim “well-done is better than well-said,” lives today through the Penn Compact 2022 and its the inclusive policies, innovative work, and impactful engagement of our faculty, students, and staff.
Penn Sustainability is a university-wide initiative to advance social, environmental, and economic sustainability at Penn, and coordinate programs to develop a more sustainable campus.
Contact email: [email protected]
McGill University
McGill University—founded in 1821—is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world.
With two academic campuses, over 300 programs of study, and 40 000 students from 150 countries, McGill is amongst the most internationally diverse student-bodies of any research-intensive university in the country.
Today at McGill, professors are building the new field of epigenetics, developing alternative energy sources from crop plants and driving human achievement in every field imaginable.
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