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If you will be a junior or senior in the fall, you are eligible to apply for the executive committee. Freshman and sophomores are encouraged to apply to serve on the various committees.

We were both a lot younger when I started teaching at CU 46 years ago. Now we are both older—and greener. The Environmental Center celebrates its 50th anniversary today as the nation’s first student-led environmental center, founded on the first Earth Day in 1970.

Historic and current student leadership in sustainability at CU Boulder was a prominent theme in the CU Boulder Earth Day 2020 town hall. Among the key takeaways was the effect of student leadership and activism as a driver of change.

CU Athletics have helped lead zero-waste and sustainability efforts among collegiate athletic programs, including construction of four new LEED Platinum-certified buildings and a first-of-its-kind recyclable aluminum cup for gameday use.

In honor of Earth Day, we're highlighting some of our highest impact stories of late. In the research and academic spheres, CU Boulder community members are delving into everything from drought emergency strategies to building materials that come alive (in a good way) with the help of bacteria.

A new space mission will serve as the next phase in a long-running effort to take the temperature of the sun.

The E-Center has helped CU Boulder lead in sustainability among universities nationally throughout the decades. Student ingenuity and passion, supported by staff members, has proven to be a successful model.

The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business is being recognized by the AACSB in this year's Innovations That Inspire Change challenge.

Being a sustainable Buff is something we can do wherever we are, at any time of the year. This Earth Day, consider joining together with your fellow Buffs to take the Sustainable Buffs Pledge.

A CU Boulder team is one of several funded teams in the Subterranean Challenge, a competition launched by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to stimulate and test ideas around autonomous robot use in difficult underground environments.