Welcome to Sustainability at DePaul! We are here to teach you about environmental action and how you can get involved.

How We See Sustainability

We affirm the interdependence of natural and social systems. Being sustainable means acting in ways that respect the Earth’s ecological limits and promoting environmental and humanitarian justice. It is critical that we acknowledge past injustices and unsustainable practices in order to shape a way forward from within the current escalating crises.

Sustainability at DePaul is a collective effort of future, current, and past students, as well as faculty, staff, and community partners, to create a more just and sustainable future for all. Led by Just DePaul, an initiative of DePaul University’s Division of Mission and Ministry, we are actively learning, collaborating, and making practical changes to support social and environmental justice on campus and beyond. Join us today!

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Two DePaul students wearing sunglasses work with shovels in a community garden in early spring. Photo by Quentin Blais, DePaul Journalism.

Photo by Quentin Blais / DePaul Journalism

Care of Our Common Home

Watch DePaul faculty and staff reflect on Pope Francis’ Laudato Sí, in which the Pope makes a passionate plea for climate action. The Pope’s belief that we “must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” (Laudato Sí, 14) gives a powerful animating vision to sustainability action at DePaul.

Visit our other pages to explore courses and degrees, history, and learn more about environmental justice at DePaul

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Eight members of the President's Sustainability Committee pose behind a classroom table.

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