RIT is a leader in groundbreaking sustainability research, teaching, and engagement. The RIT campus works as a living laboratory for sustainable technologies, practices, and philosophies within the built and natural environment.
Statistics
13k
Solar panels installed on campus
74%
Academic departments that offer sustainability-related courses
21
Charging stations on campus
8
Years RIT has been listed in Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges
35
Tons of material saved from the landfill through Goodbye, Goodbuy!
9k
Pounds of food donated to area meal centers and shelters by Recover Rochester in 2018
The Albany Times Union reports on a study by the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute on expanding New York's bottle bill to include wine and liquor bottles.
RIT will use a substantial gift of real estate in Penfield to expand the university’s research and educational offerings in ecology, agriculture, sustainability and other fields. Amy Leenhouts Tait and Robert C. Tait have gifted to the university their 177-acre property, which will be dedicated as the Tait Preserve of RIT.
A new book by Nabil Nasr, associate provost and director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS), brings together many of the world’s thought leaders on the fundamentals of remanufacturing and its vital link to resource efficiency and the circular economy—including two additional authors from RIT.
For the ninth consecutive year, RIT has been named one of the greenest universities by The Princeton Review—achieving a “Green Rating” score of 97 out of a possible 99—the university’s highest rating ever.