sustainability
It’s Sustainability – Gamified
Learning through play isn’t just for babies and toddlers. Games are a good way for older children and adults to learn, too.
Carter-Finley Expands Compost Effort
When the Wolfpack returns to Carter-Finley Stadium for its first home football game, so will composting and recycling in order to reduce gameday waste.
This Lab Went Paperless and Saved $30,000
The $105 lab manual once required for a popular NC State biotechnology course is now history. Learn why.
A Walk Around Campus
Not every step on NC State's campus has to be on a brick sidewalk or plaza. In fact, you can spend an entire day walking the Wake County edges of the university, from Yates Mill County Park to a pasture adjacent to William B. Umstead State Park, and seldom leave NC State property.
No Bike? No Problem: Campus Bike Share Is Here
This fall, NC State welcomes LimeBike, a campus bike sharing service.
Architecture Students Design, Build
A student-built facility will help advance productivity of the campus Agroecology Education Farm, which grows sustainable farm-to-fork produce for university dining halls.
Sharing Sustainability In Senegal
A study abroad experience in Scotland and an Alternative Service Break trip to Belize are how NC State graduate Jack Alcorn ended up in Senegal on a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps.
Monarch Revival
Milkweed planted on Lonnie Poole Golf Course should help struggling monarch butterfly populations.
Students’ Innovation to Renew a Coastal Wetland
An industrious team of seniors from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering designed, built and installed a pump that will help restore a wetland on Harkers Island.
Western Manor Apartments Lead Pack In Recycling Competition
Residents of NC State’s Western Manor Apartments led the Wolfpack to its strongest finish yet in a nationwide collegiate recycling competition this winter. RecycleMania is a national competition of more than 300 universities competing to reduce campus landfill waste while also boosting recycling and composting rates.