In recognition of sustainability efforts, Wake Forest has received a STARS Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, is a new program that measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.Categories: Awards & Recognition, Environment & Sustainability
This month, Wake Forest is launching a green team initiative. The program encourages departments to select a green team “captain” to evaluate sustainable practices in the office and make suggestions for ways to improve. Ideas might be simple, such as purchasing copy paper with recycled content, or more impactful, like eliminating mini-fridges in individual offices.Categories: Environment & Sustainability, University Announcements
During the summer of 2010, a study was conducted by Wake Forest's Translational Science Institute to assess the role of community gardens and farmers markets in Forsyth County. The research was done to better understand the role that gardens and markets may play in providing healthy food across the county.Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Senior Frannie Speer, along with the Office of Sustainability, wants to educate campus about the bottled water industry’s effects on health, pollution and climate change. She is launching the “Choose to Reuse” campaign with a screening of “Tapped,” an award-winning documentary. 
Wake Forest students have taken the holiday to those most in need. Volunteers cooked traditional Thanksgiving day meals on campus and delivered them to local agencies as part of Turkeypalooza.
Categories: Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Across the U.S., racial minorities and the economically disenfranchised suffer disproportionally from the ill effects of assaults on the environment and often lack access to the power to protect their communities. Leaders in environmental justice discuss what can be done.Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Numerous studies reveal that communities with people of color have borne greater health and environmental risk burdens than society at large. The University will host a discussion on the issues surrounding environmental injustice.Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Research & Discovery
The Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste. One possible solution is an organic waste recycling system that works as a dehydrator.Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
Buck Cochran ('82) found his calling — and his own inner peace — in a community where sustainability is about more than farming.Categories: Alumni, Community Impact, Environment & Sustainability
Two Wake Forest seniors, Cate Berenato and Katherine Sinacore, spent four weeks in Peru this summer helping to determine which programs are best at helping sustain Brazil nut harvesters, their families and the rainforest.
Categories: Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Mentorship, University Announcements