The CU Community Faces Climate Change

What Your Peers Say:

In January some 1,013 CU students took part in a survey about energy use in climate change. The results were quite intriguing.

-58% of CU students say they are already seeing the effects of climate change in Colorado.

-CU students listed climate change in their top three concerns, behind the economy and education costs.

-56% of CU students have changed their daily habits in order to reduce their impact on the environment- great job you guys!

-About 65% of

students think that CU should be spending some money to reduce our impact on climate change

-64.59% of students think that the climate is changing; 3.85% of students disagree.

What CU is Doing:

-CU strives to be zero-waste, meaning that not even 1% of the material we use ends up in the dump! We're at 30% right now, which, when compared with other universities of our size is not too bad.

-CU is unique in that it offers a free Eco Pass in order to use the public transportation in town to each of its students.

-Our buses are powered by biodiesel to keep our Colorado air as clean as possible.

-CU offsets its energy use by purchasing 5% of it's electricity use from wind power sources.

-Our students are highly invovled in environmental causes and are together working to find solutions- both personally and globally- to the causes of climate change.