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    UMass has updated waste guidelines to help reduce our impact on the environment.

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Sustainability Events

Ways of Knowing Through the Senses: A Nature Experience

Using our senses, we will enjoy a short, guided walk on campus.

BCT Lecture: Climate Smart Forests and Green Construction

Peter Pinchot of Whole Forests will present "Climate Smart Forests and Green Construction: Designing with Biogenic Carbon to Achieve Climate

Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present, and Future - Day 1

Today's event takes place in the Reading Room of Claire T. Carney University Library on the UMass Dartmouth campus.

Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present, and Future - Day 2

UMassBrut, a collaboration between faculty, staff and students at the University of

BCT Lecture: The Continuing Rise of Women in Construction

The three presenters of this talk are: 

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Sustainability News

UMass Transitions to Centralized Pick Up for Trash and Recycling
UMass Amherst Will Increase Inclusion in the Offshore Wind Energy Workforce Thanks to New Award
New Research Examines the Resilience of Local Massachusetts Food Provisioning
Secret to Weathering Climate Change Lies at Our Feet
To Understand Ecology, Follow the Connections
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