Sustainability

SUNY Oswego welcomed its second year of Tree Campus Higher Education recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation by continuing efforts that include tree planting and restoration, working with classes on initiatives and hosting community events.

SUNY Oswego’s range of sustainability activities once again earned recognition in Princeton Review’s "Guide to Green Colleges" for 2025, released in October.

SUNY Oswego has become an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators. Oswego joins many other cities and campuses across the country united in improving their landscapes...

Earlier this year, SUNY Oswego earned Tree Campus Higher Education recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation for the university’s commitment to effective urban forest management.

While SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. officially announced the phasing out of single-use plastics across the system on March 5, it’s a policy SUNY Oswego has been working toward for a while.

Penfield Library, the Office of Sustainability and the Oswego Public Library came together to celebrate National Seed Swap Day on Saturday, Jan. 27. They hosted a lively seed swap at the public library, with 24 local gardeners coming together to...

SUNY Oswego’s menu of sustainability activities once again earned recognition in Princeton Review’s "Guide to Green Colleges" for 2024, released in October.

A freshly planted garden outside of the Shineman Center aims to pay homage to incredible rare and native ecosystems found in the Finger Lakes region.

Every year during the fall semester, the Office of Sustainability hosts various events throughout the week to promote sustainable actions on campus and in the community.

Campuswide efforts and continuous improvement recently earned SUNY Oswego the coveted Gold STARS (Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System) status from AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

With April celebrated as Earth Month, the Office of Sustainability and its partners offer many different opportunities to engage around campus. Events will include a special breakfast with maple syrup from sap collected on campus, open hours of the Shineman...

SUNY Oswego’s Office of Sustainability and its manager, Kate Spector, have earned the 2022 College Recycling Leadership Award from the New York State Association of Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3) for its composting project.

SUNY Oswego’s Sustainability Office and Auxiliary Services partnered with a Native American studies class taught by Michael Chaness in this year’s maple tapping event that will result in maple syrup for the campus and community.

SUNY Oswego’s menu of sustainability activities once again earned recognition in Princeton Review’s "Guide to Green Colleges."

The community is invited to SUNY Oswego's Rice Creek Field Station for a fall bare-root tree seedling giveaway from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct 28, and noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 29.

Sustainability Week at SUNY Oswego, Oct. 3 to 7, highlights campus programming and activities that inspire people to advocate for sustainability and stewardship in their daily lives.

Members of the campus community are invited to a series of events on Friday, Sept. 2, when "Relax, Refuel, Return to Nature" unfolds from 1 to 4 p.m at Rice Creek Field Station.

The OzThrift Sale that supports sustainability while offering outstanding bargains to shoppers, continues today and opens up to the greater Oswego community on Saturday and Sunday.

When members of the SUNY Oswego family came together for the Campus Appreciation BBQ on July 13, the event featured food, fun, fellowship – and environmentally friendly figures thanks to sustainable planning.

A rededication ceremony at 3 p.m. on Arbor Day -- Friday, April 29 -- will celebrate and chart a path forward for the college's Centennial Arboretum on Washington Boulevard.

Performers, speakers, educational opportunities, games, interactive activities and more will mark Earth Day festivities from noon to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 22.

SUNY Oswego's Sustainability Office, working with Auxiliary Services, has collected around 20,000 pounds of materials to turn into compost. It's one of green efforts their office initiates and coordinates.

SUNY Oswego’s array of sustainability activities have once again earned recognition in Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges.

A local effort to restore the Centennial Arboretum on the SUNY Oswego campus seeks help from the public in advance of a planned tree-planting effort at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 23.

A new location for the college's Office of Sustainability provides additional space for its projects but a continued focus on environmentally sustainable operations and iniatives.

SUNY Oswego has earned a STARS Silver rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System measures and encourages sustainability in all...

Members of the campus community can find a variety of bargains through the Fall Thrift Sale running Thursday through Saturday in Room 133 of Marano Campus Center.

The college will celebrate Earth Month with a week of daily campus cleanups, a seed sharing event, two-day thrift sale, an Arbor Day webinar and more.

Free coats, hats, mittens and scarves are available to anybody in need throughout this week through Winter Warm-Up, a special partnership between the Sustainability Office and the Students Helping Oz Peers (SHOP) on-campus pantry.

SUNY Oswego was again recognized among the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges by the Princeton Review. In “The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges 2021 Edition,” SUNY Oswego was noted as "absolutely overflowing with sustainability.”

The college's Sustainability Office will sponsor a variety of activities for Sustainability Week, Oct. 19 to 23.

April 22 is Earth Day, in the middle of Earth Week, and while the Oswego family is not all together for it this year, the team in the Sustainability Office has been working hard on ways to celebrate #TogetherOz.

SUNY Oswego was again recognized among the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges by the Princeton Review education services company.

Two events on Wednesday, Sept. 25, will showcase the Shineman Center’s geothermal installations -- one of the largest in the state for this form of alternative energy.

SUNY Oswego students -- about 60 of them -- from art, creative writing and music have created works for an Oswego State Downtown exhibition this summer that speaks to everyone's responsibility to steward the vast but threatened asset that is...

SUNY Oswego's three-day Leave Green garage sale, May 23 to 25, again will offer a gymnasium full of bargains for the community, reduce the amount of items students have to leave and support a local cause.

A panel of SUNY Oswego faculty from various academic disciplines will present their perspectives and generate an interdisciplinary discussion on "Climate Change: A Wider Lens" as a highlight during Earth Week observances at the college.

SUNY Oswego students and faculty have started collecting exhausted writing utensils -- markers, pens and even mechanical pencils -- and sending them to a recycling company in the latest of many efforts the campus community has taken to go green.

The use of plastics in SUNY Oswego dining centers is down, and sustainability education is up, thanks to a student question during one of President Deborah F. Stanley’s town hall meetings.

The Princeton Review education services company again has ranked SUNY Oswego among the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges.

Two significant developments in the SUNY Oswego Office of Sustainability show promise to produce substantial reduction in the college's carbon footprint.

The Office of Sustainability recently launched its latest award-winning transportation initiative, BusShare, the web-based brainchild of a student who wanted to make it simple to ride Centro's system in and around campus and the city of Oswego.

SUNY Oswego recently learned it will receive the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) 2017 Excellence and Innovation Award in International Education, a national honor that cites the college for its efforts to embed study abroad in the...

On Friday (June 16), SUNY Oswego will again participate in Daylight Hour. The campus community is asked to turn off the lights from noon to 1 p.m. to demonstrate the availability of daylight and the impact on the electrical grid...

SUNY Oswego recently achieved the silver level in Purposeful Networks’ Student Actions Awards for spring 2015, earning the honor for demonstrated student leadership and engagement in activities that positively impact the community and the planet.My Student Actions, formerly called myActions,...

A SUNY Oswego student-led recycling effort and social media campaign recently won one of eight honors nationally in a first-ever competition sponsored by the sustainability organization RecycleMania.The college earned one of four honorable mentions in the 3R (Reuse-Reduce-Recycle) Actions Challenge...