Tufts Office of Sustainability serves as a resource, a catalyst, and an advocate for environmental sustainability at Tufts. Often we serve as a bridge between ideas and their practical implementation. The OOS is supported by the university and works to:
- Enhance Tufts’ reputation as a leader.
- Ensure that Tufts’ efforts are comprehensive and focused on meaningful projects
- Identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities for leadership
- Promote the strength of Tufts sustainability efforts, including those of faculty and students.
- Measure Tufts’ progress toward commitments and regional goals
- Identify sustainability opportunities that may provide Tufts with significant benefit such as reduced risk, financial savings, and avoided problems/fines.
- Opportunities in new buildings and master plan implementation
- Energy efficiency and climate change
- Water
- Solid waste
- Coordinate among other existing programs and sustainability efforts (e.g., food, transportation, landscaping, planning and policy, personal action, and related citizenship activities)
- Integrate sustainability issues into research, scholarship and student life.
- Work with interested faculty to develop meaningful class projects and support students in those efforts.
- Work with interested students on academic and extra-curricular projects
- Provide student internships when possible.
- Identify appropriate ways for faculty and student research to be pilot tested on campus
President Bacow’s Reflections on Tufts’ Environmental Commitment
