Cornell students are turning campus into a hands‑on sustainability lab—reducing food waste, redistributing surplus meals, and tackling trash with real‑world solutions that make an immediate impact.

Cornell’s new campus biodigester will turn food waste and manure into clean energy, serving as a model for smaller New York dairy farms.

Ellie Butkovich ’26 helps Cornell Dining cut waste by turning small student actions into campus‑wide sustainability wins.

Cornell Campus Sustainability Office | Fall 2025

Sustainability Life Recipe Series

Learn what to buy, when to buy it, and where.

Serving more plant-based meals is a big win for Cornell’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2035.

The effort to make Cornell events more sustainable has been growing over the past two decades

Get inspired by the depth and breadth of projects advancing sustainability!

Learn practical ways to make your organization’s events more sustainable, from concept to clean-up. Register for one of the workshops today: 9/29, 10/17.

The new certification and consultation program was designed to help campus event organizers, from student teams to large-scale efforts like commencement, plan and execute event sustainability in food, waste, transportation, purchasing, and more. An easy certification checklist allows organizers to receive a badge for use in event advertising to create a culture of campus sustainability awareness and engagement.