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2.29.12 - FE&P Employees Visit Waste Management Facility   See photos of Rice staff members touring the single stream recycling facility.

2.29.12 - Veg Out   Members of the new student group Real Food Revolution held a sustainable food tasting on Feb. 17.

2.20.12 - BRC earns LEED Gold rating   Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative earns LEED Gold certification. This is Rice's seventh recent construction project to receive this honor.

2.20.12 - RecycleMania takes hold of campus    More than 600 schools in the U.S. and Canada will compete this year through March 30. Rice has participated yearly since 2006.

1.30.12 - New filling station available in the RMC   A new campus water fountain is designed to reduce plastic bottle waste thanks to innovative students

12.2.11 - Rice Fights Drought with Reclaimed Water   Rice University is tapping into condensate water reclamation to save millions of gallons of water during a historic drought

9.21.11 - Rice taps AC condensate   Twelve million gallons of water recycled per year

9.2.11 - Innovation in the midst of a record drought   Rice recycles water to save resources

9.1.11 - Rice completes water conservation projects   Big savings from AC condensate harvesting

8.17.11 - Free-cycling back by popular demand   Annual office-supply swap set for Aug. 24

8.17.11 - Take the bus... and your bike   Bike racks have been mounted on Rice's shuttle buses

8.17.11 - To market, to market   Rice University's Farmer's Market offers a bounty to behold

8.17.11 - Let's go to Market   Every Tuesday from 3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the Rice University Farmer's Market is open

8.17.11 - Freshman team keeps green roof green   Students designed an advanced irrigation system based on measurements of soil moisture

8.17.11 - Three new campus buildings earn recognition for design excellence   Rice's Brockman Hall for Physics and Duncan and McMurtry colleges have earned awards 

8.17.11 - The paperless professor   Jones School's Price says goodbye to hard copies

8.17.11 - Rice dedicates state-of-the-art physics research facility   NIST director, NASA astronaut unveil Brockman Hall for Physics

8.17.11 - Rice University unveils state-of-the-art physics research facility   Federal, Rice officials dedicate Brockman Hall, which drew $11 million in stimulus funding

8.17.11 - Easy rider   New initiatives make biking a more convenient transportation option

8.17.11 - Wilson House dedicated   The new LEED Silver Wiess College master's house was dedicated on March 11

8.17.11 - Single-stream recycling available at Rice   Mixed recyclables can now all be placed in the same blue bins

8.17.11 - Baker College servery closes the loop on the 'farm-to-fork-to-farm' program   Baker servery makes special efforts to use local produce and return compost back to local farmers

8.17.11 - RESET appropriates funds to six student projects   Members of RESET gave a total of $15,000 to six project grant winners

8.17.11 - RESET projects innovative   RESET blanket tax funds environmental sustainability improvement projects

11.18.10 - Rice Energy Finance Summit   Rice Energy Finance Summit discusses how to navigate industry uncertainties

11.9.10 - Sustainability Pay$   Rice's Shell Center hosts conference to examine Denmark's sustainability success

11.8.10 - Sustainability Grade is rising!   Rice has improved it's grade on the College Sustainability Report card to a B+, a grade that's continued rise

11.8.10 - McMurtry College earns LEED Gold   One of Rice's newest newest residential colleges, McMurtry College,  has earned USGBC LEED Gold certification 

10.25.10 - Green Carbon Center   Rice University has created a Green Carbon Center to bring energy sources together to help ensure the world's energy future

10.25.10 - Where do we go from here?   Rice leads discussion at 2010 conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainabilty in Higher Education

10.6.10 - ZEROW House on tour!   The ZEROW House designed and built by Rice students for the 2009 Solar Decathlon is now on the Solar Tour

9.23.10 - Ready, Set, Recycle!   The Greenopolis Recycling Kiosk is installed in the RMC and waiting for your cans and bottles!

4.14.10 - RecycleMania!   Rice has joined the nation-wide intercollegiate recycling contest, RecycleMania.  Join the Facebook group!

4.14.10 - Gold!   Rice earns a LEED-Gold rating for the renovation of an engineering design facility.  Read all about it here

4.14.10 - Rice Solar Decathlon on NBC's Today!   Watch a feature on the solar decathlon, including Rice's ZEROW House.

4.14.10 - Rice Featured in Generation E!   A new publication from the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program tracks success stories of students leading for a sustainable, clean energy future, including efforts here at Rice.  Read about it here .

4.14.10 - Silver!   The Rice Children's Campus has officially received certification as a LEED-Silver building.  Read all about it here.

4.14.10 - We Have a Winner!   View the winner of the Environmental/Sustainability Award for the 2009 Student Video Contest.

4.14.10 - Rice Wins Electric Car!   A student video nets Rice a free electric car.  Read all about it here.