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Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Kim Cobb program is collaborating with College of Business Professor Beril Toktay to extend the reach of the Carbon Reduction Challenge. Toktay is the faculty director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business. 

The team took the vehicle, built in just six weeks, to Detroit, Michigan, to go up against universities from around the world.

Want to help the planet and save your employer money? Sign up for the internship and co-op Carbon Challenge. 

A dozen School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students will travel to New York this weekend to present their findings from a recent research trip to Bolivia.

In the world of water research, underserved communities provide the ultimate learning ground for undergrads.

The Energy and Environmental Leadership Camp, now in its second year, will be offered June 19-23 through the Georgia Tech CEISMC Summer Peaks program.

Join Georgia Tech on April 21 in celebration of Earth Day 2017. Stop by Tech Green between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for free organic popcorn, a clothing swap, an office supply exchange, a raffle for a year of free Zipcar use, and more.

From April 17–21, students will try to fit a week’s worth of waste into a single gallon-sized bag.

The inaugural Strategic Plan for Sustainable Practice lays out the long-term vision and goals that will guide sustainability efforts on campus for the next 10 years.

Earth Day at Georgia Tech will celebrate its 20th year in April, and part of the tradition is honoring those on campus doing outstanding environmental work. 

The Office of Campus Sustainability’s Work Green certification program celebrates and supports Georgia Tech staff and faculty who contribute to campus goals by promoting sustainable practices in the workplace.

Tech earned recognition as a Tree Campus USA for 2016 from the Arbor Day Foundation. 

The Living Building at Georgia Tech has reached a major milestone, with the approval of the schematic design. Approved by Georgia Tech’s Planning and Design Commission in December, the schematic design essentially provides a working blueprint for what is anticipated to be the most environmentally advanced research and educational building ever constructed in the Southeast.  

For billions of years, Earth was inhospitable to complex life. The vast majority was single-celled, then a planetary metamorphosis jolted evolution, just after oceanic phosphorus shifted into shallow waters conducive to life about 800 million years ago. First simple animals appeared, and complex life blossomed. The phosphorus mark in ancient sedimentary rock appears like a starting flag in an evolutionary race.