Jan 31, 2025 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Nitrous oxide (N2O) has long been agriculture’s sustainability Achilles heel. While only making up 6% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, N2O has 300 times the heat-trapping ability ofcarbon dioxide (CO2) and stays in the atmosphere for about 100 years. This...
Oct 21, 2024 | Campus Sustainability, News, News Releases, Zero Waste
In August, the University of Illinois welcomed the Class of 2028 — more than 9,000 students strong. Thanks to Zero Waste efforts championed by iSEE and its campus partners, this record freshman class started the semester off sustainably during events like the New...
Oct 3, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Conventional food and agricultural production systems employ a linear “take, make, waste” approach: taking natural resources from the Earth to make food and fuel, generating waste that contaminates the soil and water, and emitting harmful pollutants. More recently, a...
Sep 24, 2024 | News, News Releases
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the creation of the Levenick Center for a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy, the first such named center in the United States, pending approval by the Board of Trustees in November. Funded by a...
Sep 16, 2024 | Levenick Fellows, News, News Releases
The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) has selected four external scholars to be part of the Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership program for the 2024-25 academic year at the University of Illinois...
Sep 13, 2024 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, Seed Funded Projects, Uncategorized
Existing global energy projections underestimate the impact of climate change on urban heating and cooling systems by roughly 50% by 2099 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, researchers report. This disparity could profoundly affect critical sustainable energy...