RIT Sustainability Policy
The Institute recognizes that the sustainable choices made by faculty, staff, and students will resonate for generations throughout the Upstate New York area and beyond. Those that work and study at RIT also live and raise families in the area. By making the campus more environmentally friendly and by engaging in and learning more about sustainable practices, the RIT community is improving the cleanliness of the greater environment in real and measurable ways.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is committed to conducting its operations in a sustainable way that prevents pollution, complies with applicable environmental laws and regulations, and improves its environmental performance. RIT believes that proactive environmental management and fostering sustainability are fundamental components in educating our students and future leaders. RIT is committed to integrating this environmental stewardship into its academic programs. RIT will strive to conduct its activities in an ecologically and economically sound manner and will promote responsible consumption and environmentally sound practices among all members of the university community.
RIT values its relationships with the local, regional and global communities and is committed to developing opportunities that share and expand the environmental expertise of its faculty, staff and students.
To assure our being a good steward of the land and its ecological permanence, we will maintain the following sustainable focus points:
- Excellence of sustainable curriculum
- Advancement of sustainable research and development of technology
- Maintenance of Institute’s environmental commitments
- Improvements of Institute’s operational energy efficiencies
- Lowering of campus emissions
- Harvesting of renewable energy
- Continuous advancement of Green Building technology
- Improvements in transportation, infrastructure and institutional commuting
- Pollution prevention
- Excellence in recycling
- Sustainable business methods and purchasing
- Well-being of stakeholders
- Stewardship of land air and water
- Full transparency and representation of stakeholders
- Community involvement
