Since fall 2024, ISF has led the work of the cross-campus Sustainability Working Group (SWG) to study recent and current sustainability practices and initiatives on campus and identify ways to enhance and improve efforts across campus, further positioning Purdue as a leader in sustainability. Sustainability, in this vision, is not the responsibility of one unit, nor is it marked by the achievement of one target. Rather, anyone can commit to improving campus sustainability. Greater success can be reached by collaborating with others. Communicating efforts and opportunities can move us forward. And to demonstrate our progress, we must calculate using agreed upon standards.

By supporting efforts large and small, every single member of the Purdue community can move us forward. In spring 2025, the group conducted the first ever campus-wide survey of student’s sustainability knowledge. A key output in summer 2025 has been the publication of Purdue’s first-ever Campus Guide to Sustainable Living. We invite you to check out this new valuable resource, read more about the guide, and be on the look out for more activities and outputs!