Tag: Engagement

May 18, 2020

#GreenGraduates – An Interview with BennuAube Amen

The Green Graduate series is a collective of interviews and conversations with environmentally-minded and eco-conscious NYU graduates. As these students move on to the workforce, graduate programs, and other opportunities, we are struck with how different the world seems today than it did a few months ago. Our hope with this series is to inspire, motivate and most importantly, honor the class of 2020.

As a Brooklyn native, it would have been easy for BennuAube Amen to fall into a familiar routine at NYU. When she started college in 2016, her experience with both the city and environmentalism were well beyond many of her peers. Bennu had the opportunity to get her feet wet in high school, volunteering at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. She thinks back to her time in the Botanical Garden often, learning about horticulture and botany, teaching young kids, “that’s where I really learned to be a student,” she said.

May 13, 2020

#GreenGraduates – An interview with Chu Jia Sing

This is Chu Jia Sing. Like many graduating students, she’s finishing her senior year back home. For her, that’s Singapore. She moved to New York four years ago to pursue her Bachelor’s degree in economics and environmental studies – disciplines that couldn’t seem more relevant with everything going on in the world. I asked her if this pandemic has transformed how she’s thinking about sustainability and environmental justice? Her mind goes to the localization of supply chains, “Will we cut down on emissions, are we going to minimize the environmental harms we inflict on small indigenous communities?” Read more

April 29, 2020

A Message from Cecil Scheib, Chief Sustainability Officer

The following message was shared in the Office of Sustainability once-monthly email, Sustainability News, on April 22, 2020. Subscribe to receive future newsletters.

Hello NYU Community,

As you might expect, my recent focus has been the safety of students, colleagues, family, and friends; I’m thinking of and miss you all. I also regret the planned 50th Anniversary Earth Month events that had to be canceled or postponed, but am thankful several fantastic ones occurred virtually.

April 22, 2020

Announcing the March 2020 Green Grant Recipients

The following projects have been awarded a Green Grant from the Office of Sustainability.

Climate Change Education En Español

Project leader: Tania Goicoechea, Program Manager (Steinhardt, Wallerstein Collaborative For Urban Environmental Education & Sustainability)

This interdisciplinary project aims to address the inequities in climate change education by creating an interactive digital hub that will host resources in Spanish and/or resources designed with Latinx communities in mind. The grantees will also host roundtable discussions with educators and other community members to gather feedback on the design and use of the online hub, as well as to create a space to share resources and ideas.

April 20, 2020

NYU Receives STARS Gold Rating for Sustainability Achievements

For over a decade, NYU has raised the bar in making our campus and community more sustainable. But we often hear the question: how are we doing?

This month, NYU officially received a Gold rating through the Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS), conducted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). With more than 900 participants in 40 countries, AASHE’s STARS program is the most widely recognized framework in the world for publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a college or university’s sustainability performance. NYU’s STARS Gold score ranks us in the top 30% of certified institutions.