Sustainability Programs Recognized for President's Awards

The ASU President’s Office recognized three sustainability programs for the 2024 President’s Awards for Sustainability: The Eco Reps program, the ASU Shared Fleet program and the Sustainability Consortium.  

The Eco Reps program is a peer-to-peer sustainability education and engagement program with grant funding from Coca-Cola. Twenty Eco Reps receive a weekly stipend for the 12-week program to host events and activities at ASU residential halls that showcase ASU sustainability practices, encouraging a culture of sustainability on campus. Since the fall of 2022, the Eco Reps have engaged with 3,950 students, totaling 796 hours. 

University Housing, University Sustainability Practices and other ASU units collaborate to promote environmental goals and increase awareness across campus, creating a culture of sustainability within the ASU community. The ASU Eco Reps program strives to empower students to become sustainability leaders and positively impact their campus and beyond.

The ASU Shared Fleet program is an innovative, collaborative program formed in the fall of 2021 to provide university employees with sustainable and cost-effective electric transportation solutions. The program supports ASU’s broader initiative to electrify its vehicle fleet. It facilitates 24-hour self-service access to around two dozen electric vehicles, carts, automobiles and trucks at the University Services Building on the ASU Tempe campus. 

Since the program began, employees have used the 25 shared fleet vehicles for over 2,900 trips. The electric shared fleet has reduced ASU’s gasoline consumption by several thousand gallons, improved local air quality, avoided purchasing several new vehicles and introduced 200 users to electric cars.

The Sustainability Consortium transforms harmful consumer goods using sustainability science and collaboration to create sustainable products that protect the population and planet. ASU is a member of the Sustainability Consortium as a leading research university with ambitious climate goals, along with other corporations, non-profits and academic institutions worldwide.

TSC is different from university centers in that it works with companies in precompetitive settings where competitors, suppliers and retailers join to advance common sustainability issues. TSC developed The Sustainability Insight System that benchmarks and tracks consumer goods performance at the product category level. This tool helps address and follow supply chain sustainability issues and allows data collection to address positive change.

The President’s Sustainability Award recognizes sustainability principles, solutions, programs or services that may serve as a catalyst or an example for adoption by other ASU units.