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Scarlet Goes Green

Solar Panels

We Are Green

From our own Green Purchasing program to our Climate and Environmental Change Initiative, Rutgers’ scarlet ways are increasingly green.

 
A Green State Leader

Rutgers recently earned the 2009 Energy Educator of the Year award from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for work to improve the energy efficiency and the use of renewable technologies at campus facilities as well as for efforts to build student awareness of the importance of energy conservation and sustainable solutions. Learn more.

Rutgers Leads in Adopting Solar

Rutgers’ 1.4 megawatt solar farm at the Livingston Campus is the largest both in New Jersey and at a single campus in the nation. The farm is now in operation and ultimately will generate approximately 10 percent of the campus’s electrical demand and reduce the university’s carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,200 tons per year.

2,131,378

That’s the number of pounds of recyclables Rutgers collected this year to retain the Gorilla Prize in the national ReycleMania contest. Rutgers bested nearly 300 other colleges and universities in gross tonnage of recyclables collected for the third straight year.

What Is Green Purchasing?

As good stewards of the environment, Rutgers buys products that conserve energy and other precious resources. Green Purchasing minimizes negative environmental effects through the use of environmentally friendly products. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing or Green Purchasing refers to the procurement of products and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose. This comparison may consider raw materials acquisition, production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation, and maintenance or disposal of the product or service.

Recycling Program University Facilities makes sure that the Rutgers Recycling Program is one of the best in the nation.

Green Cleaning The Rutgers Green Cleaning program has introduced the use of bio-based ingredients instead of petroleum-based ingredients whenever possible to reduce the health hazards associated with the toxins in standard cleaning products.

Green Centers

Rutgers research and outreach centers focus on green issues, from local pesticide use to global climate change. Here is a sampling of those centers.