Engage with sustainability

By
The Office of Communications
on Sept. 1, 2017, 12:04 p.m.
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The Office of Sustainability offers ideas on how Princeton students can pursue global human and environmental well-being.

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Jared Flesher/Hundred Year Films

The world has many pressing problems, and the solutions to these challenges are being pursued and exemplified by members of Princeton’s community.

In this video, Shana Weber, director of the University’s Office of Sustainability, defines sustainability, and professors and students offer ways to learn about and tackle issues related to human and environmental well-being, on individual, local and global scales. In the classroom and out of class, on campus and off campus, students can engage with sustainability from the moment they arrive on campus.

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