Square 80
Square 80 is a sustainable park complete with trellised seating, a solar panel and an activity lawn.
Sustainability
Divest Movement
Single Use Plastics Ban
♻️ Sustainability
The Science and Engineering Hall is one of our most sustainable buildings on campus and is LEED Gold Certified. The building recycles and filters rainwater collected from the roof, houses multiple green walls filled with foliage, and is home to a rooftop greenhouse accessible to students.
⭐ Divest Movement
In 2020, GW committed to eliminating new investments in businesses that derive the majority of their revenues from the extraction of fossil fuel and fully divesting the university endowment from fossil fuel-related companies by 2025.
♻️ Single Use Plastics Ban
GW is committed to eliminating single-use plastics from campus, and has made the following changes:
- Installation of at least one bottle-filling station (aka “hydration station”) in each building and in convenient pedestrian outdoor locations. All will be easily identified with branding for the initiative.
- All vending machines have been converted from plastic bottled beverages to canned or glass beverages, which can be recycled indefinitely.
- Installation of at least one bottle-filling station (aka “hydration station”) in each building and in convenient pedestrian outdoor locations. All will be easily identified with branding for the initiative.
- All vending machines have been converted from plastic bottled beverages to canned or glass beverages, which can be recycled indefinitely.