Sustainability

University Engagement

Welcome to the Office of Sustainability!

Our office boasts programs and projects that link science with sustainability. We are a student driven office, promoting students through experiential learning, leadership, and networking opportunities to build programs around their unique interests and experiences. The Office of Sustainability is a place for anyone interested in promoting a more sustainable world through learning, education, or research. Through our many collaborations with local and national organizations we can help community members find resources and collaborating partners to integrate sustainability into their work and lives. Together we can inspire the next generation of industry leaders, business owners, and policy makers to lead us into a more sustainable and resilient future.

Programs and Initiatives

Office of Sustainability programs are centered around raising awareness, increasing engagement, and creating synergistic relationships to address sustainable issues important to our community.

Sustainable Cities

Stewardship of Public Lands

Sustainable Agriculture Programs

Composting Program

Earth Day Celebration

Sustainability Curriculum

Student Organizations

Initiatives

reTHink

reTHink educates, supports, and encourages the citizens and business of the Wabash Valley to reduce waste and live a healthier, more sustainable life. reTHink has gardens in Ryves neighborhood that provide fresh produce to the community. They also have a composting program that you can opt-into.

TREES Inc.

Trees Inc

TREES Inc. is a local non-profit environmental volunteer group founded in 1990 to encourage the planting of trees in Terre Haute and Vigo County.

Earth Charter Indiana

Earth Charter focuses on intergenerational action and education in the face of the climate crisis. They have many resources on their website and through their programs. Earth Charter also has many volunteer opportunities and programs for people in Indiana.

Wabash Valley Art Spaces

Art Spaces

Arts Spaces provides public art and the design of public places to enhance economic growth, enrich cultural exp

Terre Foods

Terre Foods is a member-owned, natural foods grocery store that is forming in Terre Haute, Indiana that will focus on local and organic products.

Vigo Investives Management

Area volunteer group who provides education about and help to eradicate invasive plant species in Vigo County, Indiana.

State of Indiana Cooperative Invasives Management

The vision of SICIM is a natural landscape defined by healthy, diverse and economically productive communities of native species integrated within a mosaic of other land uses.

Wabash Valley Bee Club

The Wabash Valley Bee Club provides a great opportunity for anyone with an interest in bees to come and gather great resources and knowledge about bees.

White Violet Center for Eco-Justice

The focus of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN, is teaching, caring, inspiring for all creation.

Ouabache Land Conservancy

Ouabache Land Conservancy protects 800+ acres of land in west-central Indiana.

Indiana Native Plant Society

Acting as champions for biodiversity, we seek to nourish the web of life through native plants and to form bonds of stewardship for the future by bringing Indiana youth to nature.

Vermillion County SWCD

Our mission is to provide leadership and assistance in the proper use and management of soil, water, and related natural resources for all citizens in Vermillion County.

Advancing Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)

AASHE empowers higher education faculty, administrators, staff and students to be effective change agents and drivers of sustainability innovation. They work with and for higher education to ensure that our future leaders are motivated and equipped to solve sustainability challenges.

Post Landfill Action Network (PLAN)

PLAN helps students launch self-sustaining programs that fight the cycle of campus waste. ISU has been a member institution of PLAN since 2018. PLAN has multiple resources for students to begin their own initiatives and have campus representatives to talk to.

Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is a grassroots environmental organization in the US. They have a national community of volunteers, advocates, and grassroots activists who show up when and where it counts.

American Association of State Colleges and Universities

We are the collective voice of 350 state colleges, universities, and systems united by our shared commitment to make affordable, high-quality education available to students of all backgrounds, races, and ethnicities.

Our members share a learning- and teaching-centered culture, a historic commitment to underserved student populations, and a dedication to research and creativity that advances their regions’ economic progress and cultural development.

International Society of Sustainability Professionals

The International Society of Sustainability Professionals is the world’s leading network of sustainability professionals. We work together to provide the community with training, and tools needed to meet goals and create sustainable change.

We exist to empower sustainability professionals across the workforce and around the world.

Epic-Network

The EPIC Model unites the human capital of universities with local governments, and communities, to improve the quality of life and social wealth for all involved. EPIC-N is the nonprofit association of institutions that adopt the award-winning EPIC Model for university-community partnership.