The Refillery is making a low-waste and sustainable lifestyle more accessible to Pittsburgh. The owner, Larissa Russo, opened the zero-waste store in Squirrel Hill a little less than a year ago, after seeing a need in the Pittsburgh community for an alternative to single-use plastic.

Food Recovery Heroes’ goal is to recover surplus food across campus and to donate it to local organizations. They take leftovers from food vendors around campus and bring them to different hunger-fighting agencies in Pittsburgh.

Combating climate change in the healthcare sector is especially important for Melissa Belic, professor in civil and environmental engineering and co-director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.

With sustainability in mind, Pitt Engineering designed a system to curb energy industry water waste through membrane distillation.

Students in R. Ward Allebach’s Sustainability course are tasked with creating a semester-long project focusing on either sustainability or environmental issues on campus. According to Martina Frederick, her group, “The Ecojustice Allies,” dedicated the semester to addressing environmental racism and injustice on campus and in the city of Pittsburgh.

Pitt released its climate plan on Thursday, detailing the University’s strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2037.

KFC’s sustainable product is profit-driven and not an accurate reflection of their sustainability efforts.

Pitt Stages is kicking off its in-person productions at Charity Randall Theatre for the first time since spring 2020, and the much-anticipated return to live performance at Pitt comes with an important message about mindfulness and sustainability.

Plant2Plate is a student-run organization at Pitt, which has cultivated and harvested produce from a plot of land located on Oakland Avenue. The organization will soon relocate because the University intends to build student housing on their current lot.

There are meaningful ways to help combat your climate anxiety and climate change that go beyond getting rid of plastic straws.