Sustainability

Northeastern marketing and entrepreneurship student Michelle Beaudette strives for sustainability within the beauty industry by reducing plastic waste through her beauty company Kaolin Beauty while promoting self-care.

Students and researchers at Northeastern’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL) published a paper about a new way to effectively preserve DNA, which has implications for many scientific research disciplines.

The goal of the Market was to help support Northeastern owned businesses; sustainability was simply a bonus. Evidently, many Northeastern alumna and students are passionate about sustainability and have incorporated it into their businesses.

The Hult Prize Challenge, hosted by Hult business school, is an annual competition dedicated to social enterprise. This year, it will be judging business pitches centered around sustainable fashion.

New electric utility trucks are being introduced to campus to help facility related operations continue to align with Northeastern’s climate goals.

On December 2nd, climate activists, politicians, and celebrities from around the world gathered at the MGM Music Hall in Boston to celebrate the 2022 Earthshot Prize Awards. Among the attendees were Climate Justice and Sustainability Hub co-ops, Elana Lane and Brittany Segill.

Students in Associate Teaching Professor Mary Hale’s advanced architectural design course are finding inspiration for installation projects in an unexpected place: recycled materials. The installations were displayed across campus, with the goal of showcasing student creativity and highlighting how discarded material can be repurposed in innovative ways.

A new series of waste bans that took place this November reinforced Northeastern’s commitment to giving products a second life.

The WELL certification is the culmination of a two-year process of renovating the first and second floors of 216 Mass Ave into the new home for Northeastern Planning, Real Estate, and Facilities.