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Protest sign reading "Change the Politics, Not the CLimate"

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Who Are Today's Climate Activists?

SIS professor Dana R. Fisher explores the truth about three of the big myths being told about climate activism and the climate movement today.
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Energy and water use on campus during winter 2023-24 closure

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Winter Energy Curtailment Efforts Result in Significant Energy and Water Cost Savings

The measurements all have been collected and analyzed and the findings make apparent that American University’s annual Winter Energy Curtailment efforts were again an overwhelming success.
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Seventy-five percent of campus waste filters into large containers near AU’s Sports Center Annex.

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Trace Your Waste

Leave fewer (environmental) footprints behind by following Facility Management’s trash-sorting guidelines.
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Food spills out of a trash can. Photo from Getty.

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Two Facts and a Fiction: Waste Not

CAS professorial lecturer and RECIPES fellow Kristine Beran on wasted food, which reaches a peak during the holiday season.
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Mark Freedman of Facilities Management explains how the heating plant operates.

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Facilities Management Marks ENERGY STAR Day with a Heating Plant Tour

Facilities Management partners with Office of Sustainability to show staff and faculty AU's energy-saving heating plant
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Professor Casey Cook conducting AU Chorus during rehearsal. Photo: Olivia Bloch

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Intertwining Roots: Collaborative, Antiracist Scholarship and the Environment

Two-day event promotes antiracist approaches to environmental work.
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Some of the reused light fittings that were diverted from waste.

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A Bright Idea: Reducing Energy Through Material Reuse

AU reduces waste by reusing materials from demolition during recent tunnel renovation.
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From left: AU undergraduate Maxwell Downing, Dana Fisher, two Columbia University researchers and AU graduate student Caitlin Wiley take a photo at the March to End Fossil Fuels.

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Taking the Temperature of Global Warming

SIS professor Dana Fisher and a team of researchers polled participants about climate change at the March to End Fossil Fuels.
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To the Point: Anacostia River

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Is DC’s Anacostia River on the Rebound and Safe for Swimming?

Environmental science department chair and associate professor Karen Knee answers our question of the week
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New energy-saving LED fixtures in Mary Graydon Center

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Energy-saving LED lights come to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall

Renovations this summer brought energy-saving LED lights to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall
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