Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Cornell is a global leader in sustainability and climate change research, teaching and engagement. Our campuses are living laboratories for developing, testing and implementing solutions that address these most challenging issues.


New website is 'one-stop shop' for climate change info

The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages.

Student energy group saves Cornell $35,000

The student group Energy Corps has already saved Cornell money and hopes to increase its impact through more energy-saving projects.

Better elephant stimulation needed to get good sperm

A Cornell and Smithsonian Institution study published in PLOS-ONE has found that how sperm is collected in Asian elephants matters in preserving this endangered species.

Book links food security to political stability

Even more violent food riots and overthrown governments are predicted in a new book edited by Cornell's Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability.”

Hotels' green efforts don’t affect revenues

Studying 9,000 hotels, two Cornell researchers conclude that the hotel industry's effort to implement sustainability don't affect their revenues.

Cornell Tech designed 'for next century'

At a New York City symposium Nov. 15, the sustainable elements of the Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island were described in detail.

Service learning course embraces design and health

Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.

Volunteers plant trees, remove debris in Breezy Point

Forty Cornellians helped plant trees and remove debris Nov. 9 in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., where residents are still recovering from the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy.

Skorton: Hard work ahead for campus sustainability

While Cornellians reported that the university’s carbon footprint strategies were working, the campus still had a long road to meet its sustainability goals by 2050.