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Climate Week

Civic Engagement
Energy & Climate
Alumni
Faculty
Staff
Students

Climate Week at Penn hosts events across the university to discuss, learn and innovate on the climate emergency. Join us October 13-17, 2025.

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Purpose

The climate emergency is everyone's business. Join Climate Week at Penn to find your place in the climate movement.

Energy Week

Energy & Climate
Alumni
Faculty
Staff
Students

A week of energy-focused events across campus. 

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Purpose

The Kleinman Center and Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology host events across campus focused on energy and related issues. 

EnviroLab

Energy & Climate
Natural Environment
Faculty
Staff
Students

EnviroLab is a workspace dedicated to supporting cutting edge graduate research on environment society relations at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Purpose

Drawing together research in anthropology, history, science and technology studies, urban geography, EnviroLab is a workspace dedicated to supporting cutting edge graduate research on environment society relations at the University of Pennsylvania.

My Climate Story

Civic Engagement
Wellness
Alumni
Faculty
Staff
Students

My Climate Story is a public research project that encourages participants to consider global climate change on a personal scale.

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Purpose

In workshops for climate storytellers from the sixth grade on up, participants are sharing how we’re making sense of global climate change. These stories connect big data to real and personal experiences. They show how local climate impacts are shaping life stories, and how they’re making us feel.

Penn Farm

Penn Park Farm
Civic Engagement
Food
Natural Environment
Wellness
Faculty
Staff
Students

Penn Farm engages stakeholders from across the Penn community around wellness, food access, sustainability, and education.

Penn Park Farm
Purpose

The Penn Farm, which originated through the Penn Food and Wellness Collaborative (PFWC), is a unique, multidisciplinary initiative that engages stakeholders from across the Penn community around four central pillars of wellness, food access, sustainability, and education.

Committee on the Institutional Response to the Climate Emergency (CIRCE)

Civic Engagement
Energy & Climate
Faculty

The Faculty Senate Select Committee facilitating discussion of all aspects of global warming and climate change as they pertain to faculty at Penn.

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Purpose

The Faculty Senate Select Committee on the Institutional Response to the Climate Emergency (CIRCE) was established in December 2019 for the purpose of facilitating discussion of all aspects of global warming and climate change as they pertain to faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Employee Alliance for Climate & Environment (PEACE)

Penn Employee Alliance for Climate & Environment
Civic Engagement
Faculty
Staff

PEACE members build knowledge and leadership across Staff and Faculty to champion Penn’s sustainability goals.  

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Purpose

Designed to improve environmental awareness and behavior change, the program builds knowledge and leadership across Penn’s schools and centers by empowering individuals to champion sustainability at Penn. 

Activities

Members work within their departments and the Penn community share information and skills aimed at supporting the University’s environmental goals. 

Team

Led by Penn Sustainability, PEACE is comprised of more than 150 staff and faculty members across the University representing a diverse set of offices, schools, and centers.