Environmental and Social Sustainability Grants Program
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The Environmental and Social Sustainability Grants Program provides essential funding for students to explore and address challenges that have an environmental and societal impact here in Connecticut. Students co-design projects with support from faculty and staff mentors to improve environmental and living conditions. This program has resulted in lasting effects and improvements both on and off campus, such as a composting privy at Spring Valley Student Farm, a Swap Shop aimed at reducing plastic waste and extending the life of clothes, and a Gleaning Corps, which collects excess produce from local farms and delivers it to various food pantries in the Willimantic area for people suffering from food insecurity. Eight projects include Feeding UConn Stamford Students Sustainably, Bringing the Buzz Back to UConn Community Garden, Soil Screening to Inform Environmental Justice and Promote Sustainable Urban Farming in Hartford, Spring Valley Student Farm Solar Tie In, Proof of Concept: Micro-Hydropower Generation at UConn Water Resource Recovery Facility-Chlorination Contact Weir, Community Seed Library, Fighting Food Insecurity with Individual Hydroponic Farming, Swap Shop.
Contact: Patrick McKee
Email: patrick.mckee@uconn.edu
Keywords: sustainability, grants, student team
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