This is the first of a series of lunches on Sustainability on the UGA Campus that will run this academic year.

Monthly Sustainability Lunch: First Friday EATS. Thursday September 2nd. Noon - 1:00 p.m. First Floor Rotunda, Joe Frank Harris Commons. Sponsored by the Academy of the Environment and the Office of Sustainability. Speaker: Kevin Kirsche, director of the Office of Sustainability. Also meet other Office of Sustainability staff, discuss current and future campus sustainability initiatives,...

Athens, GA. – The University of Georgia is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review, and was recently featured in the publication’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.

The guide specifically noted UGA’s Academy of the Environment, which is a venue for cross-disciplinary collaboration in research, graduate and undergraduate training, and public education and outreach that includes 300 faculty members. The “Every Drop Counts” campaign, which resulted in a 22 percent drop...