Sustainability News

WROC-TV talks to Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor to the president at RIT, about a proposed ban on plastic bags in New York state.

Some people see massive environmental issues as unsalvageable, but Kristen Denninger Snyder ’10 sees them as motivation to keep working toward environmental conservation. Later this year, she will open the Research and Innovation for the Serengeti Ecosystem (RISE​) in Tanzania and serve as the center’s head scientist.

Associate Professor Marcos Esterman and several RIT senior engineering students are on a mission to empower citizens of Cali, Colombia, through cutting-edge technology including solar-powered 3D printers and aquaponics.

Entrepreneur David Rodriguez ’92 (MBA) is doing his part to provide new clean energy solutions to the nearly 3.4 million residents of Puerto Rico who live in the constant presence of destructive tropical storms and hurricanes.

Discover quotes insect ecologist Kaitlin Stack Whitney, visiting assistant professor in the science, technology and society department and the environmental sciences program.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Harshita Sood, sustainability initiatives manager.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Kimie Romeo, adjunct professor of environmental health.

Students at RIT are learning about risk management and planning even before entering the workplace through a new series of systems-based educational tools integrating community and enterprise risk and sustainability management.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor to the president, and Kimie Romeo, adjunct professor of environmental management.

WXXI's "Connections" program features Enid Cardinal, senior sustainability advisor to the president.

RIT has received a $165,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support assessment initiatives that will inform and strengthen short- and long-term research goals and institutional planning at RIT’s Image Permanence Institute.

Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 7: What becomes of unharvested crops, apples that grocery stores don’t sell, leftovers from a banquet? Food waste is a global issue with social, economic and environmental implications. Associate professors of sustainability Callie Babbitt and Tom Trabold discuss the problem and offer some practical and personal solutions that are helping influence public policy.