Divestment movement arrives in Virginia | Energy News Network
University of Richmond students are trying to persuade administrators to become the first college in the state to divest its endowment from fossil fuels.
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University of Richmond students are trying to persuade administrators to become the first college in the state to divest its endowment from fossil fuels.
“I hope to see more of a culture about caring about sustainability at UR that is beyond the people in this room but more so campus wide,” Salters said.
The university is collecting travel data of prospective students who attend campus tours and paying a nonprofit to offset the environmental impact.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 The University of Richmond is now one of only two higher education institutions in the U.S., and the first in the southeast, to match 100% of its electricity needs with a single solar power source. UR’s latest solar project, Spider Solar, is a new 20-megawatt solar energy facility that replenishes the electric grid with the same amount of renewable solar energy that the campus uses to run day-to-day operations. Courtesy of University of Richmond The 47,000-panel solar array began operating on Dec. 31, 2020, and will produce 41,000 megawatt-hours of solar ener...