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Green Toolkit
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Making Progress
Explore our progress on Assignment: Earth, events and activities during Earth Month 2025, and resources on and off campus in our Green Directory.
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Sustainability News Highlights
- Could Africa’s largest water dispute be avoided with open science?
Researchers suggest a framework for sharing the Nile’s water and hydropower resources under prolonged drought. - Want to raise concern about climate change? Tell someone’s story
A new study co-written by a USC professor finds that indirect experience with severe weather drives public concern about climate change around the world. - Code Green
By upcycling plastics, reducing environmentally harmful anesthesia gases and transforming medical supply chains, the USC health system and health sciences schools are working to shrink health care’s carbon footprint.