Sustainability

For the 14th-straight year, Duke University has been honored for its conservation and commitment to trees. Photo courtesy of University Communications.

March 14, 2022

Duke Earns Tree Campus Honor for 14th-Straight Year

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Duke's Sustainability Awards.

February 23, 2022

Nominations Open for 10th Annual Duke Sustainability Awards

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A student takes a core sample from a tree in the Duke Forest.

February 3, 2022

Rising to the Moment

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Student volunteers stand with some of the waste diverted from landfill during a K-Ville Zero Waste effort during the 2019-20 season. Photo courtesy of Pooja Lalwani.

January 26, 2022

Zero Waste Program Returns to Krzyzewskiville

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From its earliest days in the 1930s, Duke Forest offered researchers an opportunity to see how forests grow and evolve. Photo: Duke Forest.

November 22, 2021

Happy 90th, Duke Forest

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Duke is supporting the protection of coastal mangroves in Africa to keep carbon from the atmosphere. It was Duke research that helped establish a market for carbon offsets from coastal habitats.

November 5, 2021

Duke Research Brings Far-Off Carbon Offset Closer to Home

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A success as both a campus utility project and a beautiful addition to the landscape, Duke Pond was recently honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Photo by Mark Hough.

October 18, 2021

Duke Pond Earns National Landscape Design Honor

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When it's operational in April 2022, the 60-foot-tall Chilled Water Thermal Storage Tank will save Duke an estimated $550,000 in annual energy costs. Photos by Stephen Schramm.

August 31, 2021

New Thermal Water Storage Tank to Open in April 2022

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Picture of West Campus and Campus Drive leading toward Duke Chapel

July 7, 2021

Novel Renewable Natural Gas Partnership Will Move Duke Toward Carbon Neutrality

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June 29, 2021

Executive Summaries of Trustee Strategic Task Force Reports Available

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Tom Craven cuts a fallen tree in Duke Forest. Photo by Jonathan Black.

May 10, 2021

A Duke Workday: Preserving Duke Forest for Teaching and Research

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A Tree Campus Higher Education banner hangs near where new trees were being added by Gross Hall. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

May 10, 2021

Duke Earns Tree Campus Honor for 13th Straight Year

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Rows of lettuce grows not he Duke Campus Farm, which will begin its CSA program next month. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

April 27, 2021

Get Your Share of Duke Campus Farm Produce

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image of trees in a forest taken from the ground looking skyward

April 22, 2021

An Earth Day Update From President Price on Duke's Commitment to the Environment

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Duke Alumni group on an association tour.

April 21, 2021

Spearheading Sustainability in Duke Alumni Travel

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The 2021 Sustainability Award winners, clockwise from top left, Cameron Oglesby, Avery Indermaur, Beth Ray-Schroeder, Billy Pizer, Margaret Overton and Amalia Turner.

April 20, 2021

Celebrating Duke's Sustainability Champions in 2020-21

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