Sustainability

With April celebrated as Earth Month, the Office of Sustainability and its partners offer many different opportunities to engage around campus. Events will include a special breakfast with maple syrup from sap collected on campus, open hours of the Shineman Greenhouse, Arbor Day activities, workshops and more.

SUNY Oswego’s Office of Sustainability and its manager, Kate Spector, have earned the 2022 College Recycling Leadership Award from the New York State Association of Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3) for its composting project.

SUNY Oswego’s Sustainability Office and Auxiliary Services partnered with a Native American studies class taught by Michael Chaness in this year’s maple tapping event that will result in maple syrup for the campus and community.

SUNY Oswego’s menu of sustainability activities once again earned recognition in Princeton Review’s "Guide to Green Colleges."

The community is invited to SUNY Oswego's Rice Creek Field Station for a fall bare-root tree seedling giveaway from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct 28, and noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 29.

Sustainability Week at SUNY Oswego, Oct. 3 to 7, highlights campus programming and activities that inspire people to advocate for sustainability and stewardship in their daily lives.

Members of the campus community are invited to a series of events on Friday, Sept. 2, when "Relax, Refuel, Return to Nature" unfolds from 1 to 4 p.m at Rice Creek Field Station.

The OzThrift Sale that supports sustainability while offering outstanding bargains to shoppers, continues today and opens up to the greater Oswego community on Saturday and Sunday.

When members of the SUNY Oswego family came together for the Campus Appreciation BBQ on July 13, the event featured food, fun, fellowship – and environmentally friendly figures thanks to sustainable planning.

A rededication ceremony at 3 p.m. on Arbor Day -- Friday, April 29 -- will celebrate and chart a path forward for the college's Centennial Arboretum on Washington Boulevard.