While President Donald Trump has enacted mass rollbacks on climate policy at the federal level, Boston University’s climate research programs and sustainability groups have continued to educate and advocate.
Mayor Michelle Wu signed an executive order Oct. 8 to create the Boston Climate Council, an effort to implement a governmental approach to combating climate change.
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Boston University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing is currently conducting a five-year consideration of fossil fuel divestment to make a recommendation to the board of trustees, which endorsed a review of policies in 2016.
Trash, food waste and mixed recycling bins are now available on every floor that has a trash room in Claflin Hall, Rich Hall and Sleeper Hall. Previously, West Campus residences had recycling on only one floor of each building.
The City of Boston has taken the final steps toward implementing its Community Choice Electricity program, a plan aimed at offering businesses and residents more stable and affordable electricity from renewable sources.
With this new plan, the city will take steps to drastically lower the carbon footprint of all the city's large buildings, while also working to make all new municipally owned buildings meet zero net carbon standards.
A new program was announced by sustainability@BU on Monday that will offer grants to Boston University students who present a project to tackle sustainability challenges at BU.
