Sustainability at SCU

The Center for Sustainability empowers SCU students, faculty, and staff to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.

We host events and programs, implement initiatives, provide strategic consultation, and share stories that help the University achieve climate neutrality, practice mindful consumption, develop a culture of sustainability and use the campus as a living laboratory.

Racial Justice Now

SCU's Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative shares resources to help us learn about major contributions that African-American communities have made to the environmental and climate action movements as well as suggestions to support and participate in racial justice organizing.

Racial Justice Now

Take Action

Get involved - Download the Playbook based on your role at SCU and choose how you'll contribute. Earn collectable badges to show off how you're building a more #SustainableSCU!

Take Action

Here's the Plan

Check out the goals and objectives laid out by many people across campus! We have developed a roadmap of strategies that outlines how we will achieve SCU's sustainability commitments.

Here's the Plan

Fall 2020

Claim Your Badge!

The Forge Garden is closed until further notice. Due to COVID-19, The Forge Garden is closed to the public. All produce is being donated to families in need, as well as to Bronco Pantry and HomeSafe women's shelter. We hope to open our doors to the community once it is safe to do so. Please stay in touch through our social media accounts.

Sustainability Events

Latest Stories

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Treasure Your Connections, Even If You Can't Be With Them For A While Longer
The Mad Birder reflects on grandmom’s rolls and fairy slippers.
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Cooking with Conscience
The SCU community prepared and submitted fifty delicious and sustainable meals as part of the Forge Garden’s tUrn Week Fall 2020 Cooking Challenge.
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The Experiential Learning BUG
BUG grows from its gardens to a virtual garden, working with SCU students, to build a platform of community-based learning that remains committed to learning together.
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SCU x UN Sustainable Development Goals
This year, we’ve launched a social media series highlighting how SCU Broncos are contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Check out some highlights of the groups we’ve featured so far.
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Energy Savings Work in Benson
Benson Memorial Center’s got new lights after a major LED upgrade and energy meter installation. What’s so bright about these changes? Read on to discover how much energy savings we’ve captured since March.