Top 15 Green Things About Clemson

1. President Barker committed the university to become net zero by the year 2030.
2. Clemson President James Barker created the President’s Commission on Sustainability to and refine Clemson’s environmental policies.
3. Clemson University is home to an award winning, active student environmental action group, Students for Environmental Action.
4. Food waste is given to a new soldier fly composter to create biofuel and fresh compost for the student organic farm.
5. Clemson University provides campus made biodiesel to fuel the diesel trucks within the Facilities’ fleet of vehicles on campus with waste oil from campus dinning services.
6. Clemson Recycling Services decided to tackle the issue of campus food waste  and purchased a BW Organics in-vessel composter with assistance from a SCDHEC research grant.
7. Clemson University is the first University in South Carolina to use Zimride, an online social network for ride-sharing and car pooling. http://www.clemson.edu/campus-life/campus-services/parking/zimride.html
8. Students can rent hybrid and full electric vehicles with its partnership with WeCar by Enterprise-Rent-A-Car. Clemson one of the first major institutions of higher education in the south east to provide a car-sharing program. http://www.clemson.edu/campus-life/campus-services/parking/wecar.html
9. Clemson’s Student Organic Farm is an award winning USDA Certified Organic Farm that operates a produce market and organizes carpools for its customers. The Farm also runs a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
10. South Carolina’s State Botanical Gardens encompass 295 acres on campus and are used for education, outreach, and recreation. Additionally, CU manages 17,500 acres of Experimental Forest near campus. This once-exhausted farmland is now an ecologically healthy, financially self-sustaining natural Piedmont forest. Today, the forest is used daily by Clemson students for research, instruction and leisure.
11. Clemson has completed thirteen LEED certified projects since 2004. The Advanced Materials Research Laboratory was the first public LEED-certified building in South Carolina. Clemson’s International Center for Automotive Research is LEED-Gold certified. Clemson policy mandates all future building projects must meet or exceed LEED-Silver requirements.
12. Supported by Clemson University and surrounding communities, the Clemson Area Transit (CAT) public bus system provides a free mass-transit system available to the community over 19 hours a day.
13. Clemson strives to make recycling on campus convenient by providing student, academic and administrative buildings with recycling bins and pick-ups. Kite Hill, an on-campus recycling center, is open to the community. Clemson places 250 recycling stations in tailgate areas on game days.
14. Bicycle use is encouraged by offering a bike rental program, and installing transport racks on the front of CATBuses.
15. Clemson encourages carpooling by setting aside certain desirable parking regions as carpool-only, stating that there must be two or more passengers to qualify.