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Programs & Outreach

Programs & Outreach

Get involved with the Office of Sustainability!

We are happy to customize a presentation for your class, club, or group. Our presentations range from a traditional classroom PowerPoint to campus and facility walking tours. These talks cover a wide variety of topics and aim to engage and challenge the audience to consider sustainable principles in their everyday lives. 

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Our Values

Resilient

With the support of campus community partners, we are working to conserve the natural beauty of our campus through nature-based infrastructure projects.

Female presenting person is leaning a small tree back while untangling the roots in preparation for planting.

Engaged

Our Sustainability Peer Educators engage the campus community to educate and inform about sustainability initiatives across campus. 

A female presenting person rides a bike with a blender on the back in front of an outreach table.

Responsible

We offer applied learning opportunities to provide students the opportunity to see how they interact with the world through the lens of sustainability. 

Students with shovels are spreading mulch on a trail path.

Resourceful

We sponsor events that allow students to give back and support the community through volunteerism, donations, and food drives. 

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Projects

Since 2019, UNCW Sustainability has partnered with the City of Wilmington's Heal Our Waterways and NC Coastal Federation to implement nine stormwater control retrofit projects across campus, which include rain gardens, pervious parking stalls, and a permeable paver access road. Using the NC Division of Water Resources' EPA Section 319 Water Quality grant monies, these projects target nonpoint source pollution in the Bradley Creek Watershed in support of the Bradley & Hewlett's Creek Watershed Protection Plan. To date, these projects successfully treat approximately 630,000 gallons of stormwater every time it rains and keeps that pollution out of Bradley Creek. 

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The Student Village Recreation Facilities and Fields project is a continuation of the Outdoor Recreational Master Plan and consists of improvements to the existing recreation fields site adjacent to the new student village, The Shore Dining Facility and Campus Recreation Facility.

The Office of Sustainability is proud to partner with Campus Recreation and the UNCW Office of Energy to support the installation of a 17kW solar array that will assist in generating power to help reduce the traditional energy consumption of the pavilion building. 

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