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About Energy and Sustainability

We have the obligation to reduce our environmental footprint while providing reliable, cost-effective energy and water to campus. We have the opportunity to catalyze sustainable campus activities across many areas, enhance Cornell's reputation, and participate in exciting, mission-critical teaching and research activities.

What You Can Do

What Cornell is Doing


Sections

Three sections comprise Energy & Sustainability

Energy Management

Conserving energy, load forecasting, trending, optimizing supply, reducing demand, metering...

Sustainability Office

Coordinating, facilitating, communicating, measuring, catalyzing...

Utilities

Infrastructure: producing and distributing heat, cooling, electricity, water...


Project and Operational Highlights

Project Highlights

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Operational Highlights

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Cornell Organization for Resource Efficiency (CORE)

The Cornell Organization for Resource Efficiency (CORE) exists as a newly formed volunteer hub for students interested in helping with sustainability efforts on campus.


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Events

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News

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Mike Boggs Employee of the Quarter - October 2011

Nominated by Lanny Joyce, Mike Boggs was chosen as Facilities Services Employee of the Quarter. Due to shortage of staff, Mike had to read nearly 500 meters and it took nearly three full days of visitng almost half of the buildings on campus.


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Facilities Services employee and student intern receive the 1st annual campus sustainabity awards.

Kathleen Carolyn ("K.C.") Alvey '12 and Spring Buck, operations manager at Cornell's recycling and solid waste unit, received Cornell University Partners in Sustainability Awards (CUPSA) Nov. 17 for their "critical role in the sustainable transformation of the Cornell campus."


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Cornell Sustainability Plan unveiled

The President's Sustainable Campus Committee unveiled the Cornell Sustainability Plan on Oct. 21, seeking to coordinate campus sustainability efforts and encourage increased collaboration among staff, faculty and students to meet environmental objectives.


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Many of our Highlights, Events, and News items can be followed on the Sustainability at Cornell Facebook page