Awards & Achievements
| 2012 | CU Student Government facilities achieve carbon neutrality |
| 2011-12 | EPA Green Power Partnership College & University Green Power Challenge award |
| 2011 | Environmental Center begins offering Sustainable Practices Program professional training courses |
| 2011 | CU Boulder grounds are Next Generation Certified by International Society for Land Care Emissions |
| 2011 |
Colorado Carbon Fund Offset Now award |
| 2011 | CU Boulder's Green Labs program wins national freezer competition for science lab sustainability |
| 2010 | CU Boulder first campus to achieve Gold certification in AASHE Sustainability Tracking and Rating System (STARS) |
| 2010 | Boulder Chamber annual award recognizes CU Boulder's sustainability programs |
| 2009 | CU Boulder Sustainability Award for Ralphie's Green Stampede |
| 2009 | CU GOLD Leadership Program recognition as one of the Student Organizations of the Year |
| 2008 | Honorary Proclamation by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to make September 18, 2008 Ralphie's Green Stampede Day |
| 2006 | Boulder County Commissioners issue Resolution 2006-126 in support of Blueprint for a Green Campus |
| 2006 | Colorado Daily Readers' Choice runner up for Best Student Organization |
| 2006 | CU Recycling receives American Forest and Paper Association School Recycling Award |
| 2004 | Colorado Environmental Leadership Award |
| 2002 | Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education Award |
| 2001 | Wirth Chair Community Leadership Award |
| 2001 | Green Power Leadership Award |
| 2000 | EPA Climate Protection Award for Blueprint for a Green Campus |
| 1999 | Model Campus Recycling Program Award, White House Task Force on Recycling |
| 1997 | EPA Way to Go Award for student bus pass |
| 1995 | Outstanding School Recycling Program award by the National Recycling Coalition |
| 1993 | CU recycling earns PLAN Boulder County award |
| 1992 | UCSU receives EPA Administrator's Award for its CUPPS mug Program |
| 1992 | CU Recycling receives the Governor's Pollution Prevention award |
| 1990 | CU wins national campus recycling contest sponsored by MTV |
| 1986 | CU Recycling wins the “State Recycler of the Year” award from Colorado Recycles |