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Sustainability and U Home

The University shall promote innovate, high visibility research projects focused on sustainability and energy efficiency to inform campus operations as a whole as well as the broader community and promote collaborative projects that include faculty research undertaken in partnerships with operations staff, students, public entities, community organizations and industry.

• Affordable Housing
• Assessing Economic Value to the Environment
• Biotechnology Institute
• Center for Changing Landscapes
• Center for Environment and Health Policy
• Center for Environment and Natural Resource Policy
• Center for Hardwood Ecology
• Center for Integrated Natural Resource and Agricultural Management
• Center for Science, Techology and Public Policy
• Center for Sustainable Building Research
• Center for Urban Ecosystems and Sustainability
• Comparative Environmental and Economic Systems Analysis of Corn Stover Logistics Options for Cellulosic Ethanol Production
• Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences
• Department of Geography Environmental Change Research Cluster
• Developing and Evaluating an On-Farm Hydrogen Fueling Station
• The Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative
• Environmental Resources Spatial Analysis Center
• Enzymatic Synthesis of Biomethanol
• Great Lakes Northern Forests Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
• Global Warming and Carbon Sequestration
• Green Lands, Blue Waters
• Hydrology, Watershed Management, and Water Quality
• Interagency Information Cooperative
• Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
• Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability
• Liquid Fuels from Biomass: In Integrated Biorefinery Approach
• Metropolitan Design Center
• Minnesota 2050: Pathways to a Sustainable Future (Interdisciplinary Research Program)
• Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station
• Minnesota Sustainable Building Guidelines
• Minnesota Technical Assistance Program
• Non-Point Source Pollution
• University of Minnesota Regional Partnerships
• Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory
• St. Paul Campus Bioenergy Inventory
• Sustainability and Corridor Planning
• Sustainable Campus Initiative
• Sustainable and Organic Horticulture
• Sustainable Technologies Applied Research (STAR) TEA-21 Project
• TechPlan: Transportation Planning and Policy Applications of ITS-Related Technologies
• Water Resources Center
• Windows and Glazings