Sustainability Tools
Highlights
- How Can You Combat Climate Change Today? IYA Alums Make Action EasierIovine and Young Academy alumni discuss how they help combat climate change with a website that calculates your carbon footprint so you can easily fund climate solutions that offset your lifestyle’s output.
- Saved from Extinction, Southern California’s Channel Island Foxes Now Face New Threat to SurvivalFoxes inhabiting six of Southern California’s Channel Islands were saved from extinction by the Endangered Species Act. Now, a new study shows they face a different threat: their own lack of genetic diversity.
- Holistic cattle farming, environmental boons: Students research regenerative agricultureStudents are conducting a research project to prove that holistically-raised food yields more nutritional benefits than traditionally-produced food while also benefiting the environment.
- Air pollution particles trigger cellular defense mechanismsNew research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC shows that air pollution particles activate a cellular defense mechanism known as autophagy, which may reduce the ability of cells to fight off other harms.
Making Progress
Sustainable Dining

Reducing Plastic Pollution

USC News
- Researchers at USC Dornsife are using genomic testing to uncover two game-changing variants for crop breeders in the face of climate change.
- Ocean-inspired methods for carbon capture hold promise for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and advancing sustainability efforts. Experts from USC and Caltech join us for a Q&A from the docks at…
- The Sustainability Course Finder helps spread awareness of courses across the university and provides students with an easy way to see how classes relate to various sustainability issues.
- This is USC's seventh overall or category victory across football and men's basketball.
Events and Activities

Sustainability-Themed WalkSC Walk
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Tommy Trojan Los Angeles, CA 90089

USC Fieser Research Group Alamitos Beach Cleanup
Alamitos Beach Beach Access Rd, Long Beach, CA 90802

USC Peace Garden Summer Open Gardening Hours
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USC Peace Garden 3017 Shrine Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90007

USC Peace Garden Summer Open Gardening Hours
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USC Peace Garden 3017 Shrine Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90007
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Sustainable Purchasing
USC recognizes the opportunity to exercise environmental responsibility through purchasing decisions
and is committed to balancing environmentally and fiscally responsible purchasing.