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As GRT starts to plan for 2025-2030, they are asking for feedback from the Waterloo Region.

On Thursday, June 20, the Sustainability Office held the 2024 Bike Fair in the Peter Russell Rock Garden.

From May 15-16, the Sustainability Office held its second annual Seedling Swap. Over 50 students, staff, and faculty swapped 200 seedlings!

The University of Waterloo is piloting Feather Friendly® window decals on the SLC/MC bridge to protect birds.

Waterloo is excited to announce the return of the e-bike and e-scooter share program with Neuron Mobility.

To engage the UWaterloo community directly in the effort of tracking and reducing emissions, Finance and the Sustainability Office have collaborated to add a new voluntary field in Concur titled “carbon emissions” that asks Claimants who have booked and purchased their airfare out of pocket to voluntarily calculate and include the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their UW travel. 

More than 400 Waterloo community members took part in naturalization initiatives to protect Waterloo's biodiversity. 

As Zero Waste Month comes to a close, the Sustainability Office would like to reflect on the progress the campus community has made to becoming a zero-waste campus this October!  

On September 27, 74 ERS 100 students and 35 volunteers joined the Sustainability Office to restore a greenspace overrun with invasive species to a pollinator’s oasis.

In honour of Earth Day, the Sustainability Office hosted their annual campus clean-up event on April 21. More than 100 employees and students helped to pick up litter from “hotspots” around main campus, collecting over 80 bags of trash.