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Sustainability

Solar panels on JHU's Homewood campus
Sustainability
Input sought on draft vision statement, guiding principles for sustainability
Published March 11, 2022
A survey is open to affiliates and community partners through April 1
Power plant emissions
Sustainable Energy Institute
Engineers aim to convert destructive CO2 to more useful form of carbon
Published Feb 17, 2022
Using the university's own emissions, they'll attempt to convert harmful carbon dioxide into pure carbon, which is useful in manufacturing, textiles, and biochar
Blue-bordered digital screen on the front of a freezer reads -80C
Sustainability
Freezer challenge asks labs to put costly energy consumption on ice
Published Feb 3, 2022
For the second year in a row, JHU will participate in the International Freezer Laboratory Challenge, which recognizes actions that promote energy efficiency, sample accessibility, and sample integrity
Solar panels
Sustainability
Researchers will use power of AI to optimize materials for solar energy
Published Nov 5, 2021
SPIRAL Center is one of 10 projects to receive support from Department of Energy initiative focused on the development of low-cost energy technologies
Rebekka Klausen
Hopkins chemist aims to develop longer-lasting, sustainable materials
Published Sept 22, 2021
Rebekka Klausen joins Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks with focus on increasing the lifetime of synthetic rubbers and designing plastics that can decompose upon a chemical trigger
Bridge construction
Economics
Inside $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill
Published Aug 11, 2021
Economist Luis Quintero evaluates the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and discusses the plan's potential for economic impact
Power plant
Q+A
The future of sustainable energy: A conversation with Ben Schafer
Published Aug 10, 2021
Founding director of the Ralph S. O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute talks renewable vs. sustainable energy and what he and his ROSEI colleagues are doing to ensure a cleaner future for us all
Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn
Bringing sustainability to fashion
Published July 8, 2021
Recent graduates Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn have launched Mo.Na. Gems, a jewelry store selling biodegradable earrings and necklaces of their own design
Campus beauty
University news
Annual report marks Hopkins' sustainability achievements
Published June 8, 2021
Over the past fiscal year, the university has significantly reduced carbon emissions and is on track to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goal three years early
Campus Beauty
Sustainability
Johns Hopkins announces development process for a new Sustainability Plan
Published April 22, 2021
Through its solar agreement announced in 2019, the university will meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51% several years ahead of schedule