VISION OF SUSTAINABILITY AT UNH 
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Read UNH President Mark Huddleston's "Embracing Sustainability" (April 2008)
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is nationally recognized as a Sustainable Learning Community* -- a land grant, sea grant, and space grant university that unites the spirit of discovery with the challenge of sustainability across its Curriculum, Operations, Research and Engagement (CORE) --
- Curriculum: Educating citizen-professionals to advance sustainability in their civic and professional lives
- Operations: Embodying first principles and best practices of sustainability
- Research: Serving society with scholarship that responds to the most pressing issues of sustainability
- Engagement: Collaborating locally to globally with extension and outreach
-- through four initiatives designed around four foundational systems of sustainability -- biodiversity, climate, food, and culture.
- Biodiversity Education Initiative (BEI): Commitment to being a Biodiversity Protection Campus that promotes ecological and public health through the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.
- Climate Education Initiative (CEI): Commitment to being a Climate Protection Campus that pursues carbon neutrality through sustainable energy and emissions reduction policies, practices, research, and education.
- Culture & Sustainability Initiative (CAS): Commitment to being a Cultural Development Campus that promotes a culture of sustainability through a dedication to community, diversity, citizen engagement, public arts, and the conservation and sustainable development of cultural and natural resources.
- Food & Society Initiative (FAS): Commitment to being a Sustainable Food Community that promotes healthy food systems from farm to fork to health and nutrition outcomes.
Sustainability provides a systematic framework focused on maintaining the integrity of these four foundational systems.
By integrating sustainability across its CORE, a university community can respond to the present and future challenges of sustainability.
* Kelly, T. (November 2003). "Building a Sustainable Learning Community at the University of New Hampshire." Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, 6(2).*
More Information
- Learn more about sustainability
- Learn more about the University Office of Sustainability (UOS), including our mission and history
- Learn more about UOS staff
- Learn more about UNH's many successes in sustainability
- Download the UOS brochure (PDF)
- See how the principles and practices of sustainability map across the entire UNH Durham campus
