Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences<\/a><\/strong> with its \u201cvegetative\u201d roof that filters pollutants and reduces heating and cooling needs, the award-winning Hope Commons Dining Hall, the stunning Ocean Science and Exploration Center, and four residence halls.
\nGreen buildings, however, are just the beginning of all that\u2019s green at URI. We\u2019re committed to sustainability and environmental stewardship in most everything we do, from academic programs to student activities. Even our research ship, the R\/V Endeavor, has been modified to run on refined biodiesel, making it the first research ship in the U.S. fleet to use the alternative fuel.
\nURI is also committed to achieving climate neutrality, and we\u2019re on target to reduce our campus greenhouse gas emissions to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. We grow produce for the dining halls on campus farmland, sell used cooking oil to a local company to be converted to biodiesel, and beginning this fall, we will offer a Sustainability Living Learning Community where like-minded students can live together and work on projects to engage their interests in sustainability.
\nBecause many of our students want to pursue careers that put their environmental passions to work, we launched one of the nation\u2019s first undergraduate programs focused on green business\u2014a four-year, dual-major program that combines business and environmental economics. And there\u2019s our Blue MBA\u2014a graduate program that blends business with oceanography, preparing future leaders in the strategic management of global climate change. And any student, regardless of their major, can minor in sustainability.
\nMarsha Garcia, the University\u2019s sustainability officer, said: \u201cIt\u2019s our responsibility to make sure students have command of the principles of sustainability when they graduate so they can incorporate them into their lives. This is the perfect living laboratory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior environmental science major Bianca Peixoto has been passionate about sustainability and environmental protection for as long as she can remember. As the president of the campus group Student Action for Sustainability, Bianca believes that every step taken to reduce our impact on the planet is worthwhile, even the small ones. That\u2019s why her group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":20500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-building","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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