As UC Riverside marks Earth Month with a number of activities, the campus is taking more steps to meet its zero-waste goal. Facilities Services now diverts over half of the material previously sent to landfills to recycling and composting streams. A recent change in waste haulers has allowed the campus to recycle and compost even more material...

Everything you have been told about home composting is wrong. At least, oversimplified. That’s what you’ll conclude after you spend some time with UCR postdoctoral researcher and Master Gardener Clifford Morrison. He’s already got a Ph.D., in chemical and biological engineering, but if they’re ever handing out doctoral degrees for composting...

A project installing solar panels on two UC Riverside buildings has won a top prize from a solar energy industry publication. Solar Builder Magazine awarded the Rooftop Project of the Year to the campus for a project installing over 1,000 solar panels on the Student Recreation Center and Student Services Building roofs last year. The two...

UC Riverside has earned three top 10 rankings along with an overall gold award for its sustainability efforts from an organization that tracks the nation’s most sustainable colleges and universities. The campus received a gold rating in the 2022 Sustainable Index, released Sept. 8 by the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s...