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Sustainable Facilities

Facilities Management is committed to developing and maintaining an environment that enhances human health and fosters a transition toward sustainability. We are an integral part of the CU-Boulder campus, and we're committed to making it as sustainable as possible. From engineering high-performance buildings, to implementing an eco-friendly grounds and landscaping program, to running a cutting-edge waste diversion program, Facilities Management is key to making CU one of the country's most sustainable universities.

Read the 2022 University of Colorado Sustainability Report

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Sustainability News

Researcher Erik Funk with a rosy-finch

Rosy-finches are Colorado’s high-alpine specialists—researchers want to know why

Birds that can live at 14,000 feet and also breed at sea level might have evolved more quickly than previously thought. Read more
Congressman Joe Neguse, left, and US House of Representatives Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

Why does climate policy lag science?

Despite the Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. progress on climate change remains stuck in a climate conundrum, CU Boulder experts say, hampered by politics, complexity and the scope of the problem. Read more
Indigenous women's movement

When Indigenous communities have legal land rights, this Brazilian forest benefits

A CU Boulder-led study shows that between 1985 and 2019 in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, deforestation decreased and reforestation increased on lands where Indigenous communities had been able to complete a legal process to receive formal recognition of their ancestral lands. Read more
Child in green surroundings

Childhood trauma linked to civic environmental engagement, green behavior

A new study based on survey data from hundreds of U.S. adults links experiencing childhood trauma to public environmental engagement later in life, such as writing letters to elected officials or donating time and resources to an organization. Read more
Four elephants walk in a line in the grass

Why biodiversity matters and what the world is doing about it

Nations around the world have committed to achieve 30-by-30, protecting 30% of the planet's land and oceans by 2030. CU Boulder's Mara Goldman why this landmark is critical for the world's biodiversity, and what the challenges are to making it a reality. Read more
A farm in Ohio

Air quality improvements lead to more sulfur fertilizer use

A new study finds Midwestern soybean and corn farmers replaced lost airborne sulfur with sulfur fertilizer, and the environmental impacts may include downstream mercury contamination. Read more
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Facilities Management Sustainability

Ed von Bleichert
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303-735-8916
UCB 53, Boulder, CO 80309

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