With a large population travelling to and from campus every day, enabling a variety of transportation options is critical for reducing environmental impacts and creating an inclusive and sustainable campus community.
Waterloo is proud to announce that the campus has received the Fair Trade Campus designation. Join us for a launch event to celebrate the designation, sample Fairtrade certified products, and learn more about fair trade!
Join the Sustainability Office and campus partners for Zero Waste Week, an opportunity to learn more about reducing your personal waste on campus and how you can get support Waterloo's commitment to becoming a zero waste campus by 2035 through the Shift Zero Action Plan.
We're encouraging you to take the Zero Waste Challenge for one week, and we have lots of events and activities to help you get ready!
Join the Sustainability Office for our sixth-annual Eco Summit! This event brings together staff, faculty, students, and community partners to reflect on our sustainability progress, celebrate our successes, and catalyze action.
Would you like to learn more about how we're managing our waste at the University of Waterloo? The University has committed to becoming a zero waste campus by 2035, and has undertaken some big changes to support waste management efforts for the campus community.
Join Plant Operations and Waste Connections of Canada for their upcoming Lunch & Learn for more information on:
The Repair Workshop team is back and excited to host its third repair workshop for our campus community!
Do you have overly loved personal items in need of repair? Bring in your clothing, jewelry, and small electronics and other general items and let our fixers try to fix them (for free)! For this workshop, we have fixers dedicated to:
While we can't see you in person this fall, we want to stay connected! The Show Us Your Sustainability challenge encourages you to continue practicing sustainable living, wherever you are, by taking action on weekly Sustainability Tips from September 14 to November 30, 2020.
Waterloo is excited to formally launch Shift: Neutral, a roadmap for the campus to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Join us for an exclusive screening and feedback session of In Your Palm with alumnus and Director, Carter Kirilenko.
Post-secondary institutions face complex issues around health and wellbeing, including the implications surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, and the renewed urgency to address systemic racism for historically racialized communities.