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UCR: TO BE GREEN AND RECYCLE
- Find out how much waste was diverted at Spring Splash!
- National Geographic's Chasing Ice Trailer
- Find out what the Brockton Avenue Restriping Project is about and ways to support!
- A&I and Lothian Residence Halls RecycleMania Competition
- "Boomerang Boxes" to Reduce UCR's Cardboard Waste
- President Obama's Inauguration Speech 2013 on Climate Change
- UCR students win coveted EPA People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition for Sustainability with innovative solar clothes dryer
- UCR Community Gardeners growing Sustainability on Campus
- UCR receives mention for sustainability efforts!
- Add us on facebook!
- School of Medicine Research Building achieves LEED Certification Level Gold!
About Us
Living the Promise: Sustainability & Environmental Research
The Sustainability program seeks the continuous improvement in the quality of all environments affected by the University of California Riverside.
Office of Sustainability Coordinator: John Cook (Bio)
John Cook took his position as the Coordinator of Sustainability at UCR on November 8, 2010. Prior to his position at UCR, John received his Ph.D. in performance studies at Northwestern University, and worked for many years as a teacher at the Bogaziçi and Koç universities in Istanbul, Turkey; Northwestern University; Ohio University; and Columbia College in Chicago. After his years teaching, he attended the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco to earn his M.B.A. degree in sustainable management. After working in sustainability at Chicago and Washington D.C., Cook took the role as Sustainability Coordinator at the University of California Riverside.
Sustainability Defined
- Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Brundtland, 1987)
- Enables people to develop the knowledge, values and skills to participate in decisions, (…), that will improve the quality of life now without damaging the planet for the future. (SDEP, 2000)
- Sustainability is an urgent eco-socio-economic practice, that restores the financial and natural capital of the planet as it meets the needs of various populations around the globe. (Office of Sustainability)