Keeping a garment in action for just 9 extra months reduces its carbon, water and waste footprints by around 20-30% each. The Wall Street Journal highlights benefits of the recommerce market and the age-old concept of mend vs. make. #circulareconomy #sustainablefashion wsj.com/articles/why-y…

Undergrad and grad students who have inventions should apply to our #StudentPrize! You could win up to $15K in 💰💲💵 lemelson.mit.edu/studentprize.

Upcycler to open new gig work, maker space for local sewists bit.ly/32MI1oV

Join VertueLab for Fuel 2020! Fuel is a digital summit focused on building community, catalyzing cleantech solutions & creating actionable steps to economic prosperity through climate innovation, entrepreneurship & investing eventbrite.com/e/fuel-2020-ca… Lundquist College Entrepreneurship @ UO

Testing buildings may be the key to getting the economy going, says Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, whose innovative work in our Institute for Health in the Built Environment was featured today on Good Morning America fal.cn/39lsB Institute for Health in the Built Environment

Honored to be keynote at International Congress on #Sustainability #Science & #Engineering (ICOSSE '20) August 3-5, 2020 aiche.org/chenected/2020… American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) OregonDEQ Still time to register: icosse.org/2020

Alexi Overland, a major in chem. & environ. sci. University of Oregon, is interning w/ #Defunkify, a small company that produces #sustainable products. She is formulating an affordable & effective cleaning product w/ bio-based, #SaferChoice-approved ingredients to reduce toxic chemicals use.

A Greener Concrete? A Centuries-Old Material, Gets a New Recipe nytimes.com/2020/08/11/bus…?

University of Oregon Student Team #BaskingFilter designed a new filter with, anti-clogging skeleton that could make wastewater treatment less wasteful and easier to maintain. They are #InventOR finalists, learn more about their invention and join the live stream inventoregon.org/post/basking-f…

#ACLCA2020 is right around the corner next week. OregonDEQ will lead a #challenge session to re-imagine #LCA through the whole system #wellbeing framing. Join us! #cooperation #science #sustainability #systemschange Agenda: conftool.org/aclca2020/sess…

👏Meet our Student Entrepreneur of the Week Lukas Ambrose 💡 Lukas created Surge a paper straw company whose product is biodegradable & offers a sustainable alternative to plastic 💰Both University of Oregon & Oregon State University dining halls now use Surge straws 👀 surgesupplyco.com

Read about University of Oregon alum company Wheyward Spirit in the New York Times nytimes.com/2020/10/19/din…

👏kudos to our #SustainableInvention alums

Congratulations to the Portland-based Product Design students of Studio Skosh, who recently launched their own design studio. Read the full scoop here: fal.cn/3bAiW

We’re thrilled to announce The Techstars Sustainability Challenge. The Challenge brings together founders, nonprofits and universities with industry leaders in sustainability. The focus: Sustainable Supply Chains. Have an idea? Apply to the Challenge: tsta.rs/pp1O50CllSK

Don’t miss today’s 5pm session on Entrepreneurship and the Sciences Associate VP of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Andrew Nelson will be discussing how science majors can optimize entrepreneurship in their research & careers startupweek.uoregon.edu

Our Sustainable MBA has ranked third on The Princeton Review’s “Best Green MBA” list. Check out the rankings at uobiz.co/2KlN7kU or learn more about our MBA specialization in sustainable business practices at uobiz.co/3nbOIIs

Coming Summer 2021 - CH 113 Chemistry of Sustainability UO College of Design Lundquist College UO Journalism & Comm University of Oregon College of Education UO College of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to product design senior Mila Penrith, who was recently named a finalist in the IDSA Student Merit Awards! Read about Penrith’s work and design philosophy: fal.cn/3eWZY

So proud to see not one but TWO The Oregon MBA alumni among the 2021 Green Biz 30 Under 30 honorees. Briana Buckles, MBA ’19, and Stacia Betley, MBA ’18, were both named to this exclusive list of global changemakers. Read more: uobiz.co/3v5RDWZ