Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania Solar production has begun at the Great Cove I and II facilities in central Pennsylvania, the equivalent of powering 70% of the electricity demand from Penn’s academic campus and health system in the Philadelphia area.
Amy Gutmann Hall’s Sustainable Footprint A model of sustainability, Amy Gutmann Hall is constructed primarily from mass timber, which has a lower carbon footprint than steel or concrete. Housing spaces for both research and teaching, Amy Gutmann Hall was built to train the next generation of scholars to mine data for insights that can be leveraged for the betterment of humanity.
Saving Species: Bird-Friendly Philadelphia Every year in the United States, as many as a billion birds die while migrating. These birds aren’t being killed by climate change or toxic substances in the air or water, but by collisions with glass. For our ongoing series “Saving Species,” John Yang reports on an effort in Philadelphia to reduce the carnage.
2024-25 Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum Congratulations to the faculty and instructors whose courses were selected for inclusion in ISAC for the 2024-25 academic year, and to the students who will be providing research support.
Climate Week Call for Events Climate Week, October 14-18, 2024, offers a chance for the entire Penn community to engage in learning and action around climate.
Growing our Tree Canopy Creating Canopy is Penn’s annual tree giveaway, designed to encourage the continual greening of urban areas in Greater Philadelphia.
Cleaner, Greener Move Out Recognizing the responsibility of Penn to be a good neighbor in our West Philadelphia community, this year a partnership was formed among Penn Sustainability, Penn’s Office of Social Equity and Community, the Office of Government and Community Affairs, and a few student groups to provide off-campus students with means and opportunity to dispose of their unwanted belongings.
Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action Announced Penn has announced two new University leadership positions, the Vice Provost for the Arts and the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action, to advance the goals of the University’s strategic framework In Principle and Practice.
