Sustainability is one of the university's top initiatives, with goals set to produce zero waste by 2015 and become carbon neutral by 2025.

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1. There are more than 100 courses and 10 academic programs that address sustainability, and 23 centers, institutes and outreach programs that relate to sustainability.

2. Glenn Acomb, a landscape architecture professor, helped design the site and landscape of Madera, a subdivision in Gainesville that demonstrates sustainable materials in home and development designs.

3. Faculty in the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences worked on the CLAMMRS project, which uses remote sensing technology to enhance the sustainability of open-water clam farming.

4. The UF Swine Teaching and Research Unit is evaluating naturally raised swine's potential, which might lead to the ability of small landowners to raise swine and earn a premium.

5. Margaret Carr (BLAE '75), Paul Zwick (MAURP '81, PHD '85) and Tom Hoctor (MFRC '92, PHD '03), of UF's GeoPlan center, work on conservation planning for Florida. Their initiatives are implemented in a number of agencies, including the Department of Environmental Portection, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision and the Department of Transportation.

6. Interior design and landscape architecture students, along with their professors, researched and designed ways for UF's Diamond Village to become a sustainability-oriented residential living community.

7. The annual Sustainable Products Trade Show hosts UF departments, contract vendors and student organizations every April to show the variety of sustainable products available.

8. Faculty members of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences identified disease preventing phytochemicals in culled tomatoes and citrus leaves.

9. Students in the College of Nursing's Nursing Resource Center donate the toiletries that go unused to a men's shelter and distribute unused water pitchers throughout senior centers.

10. UF is No. 7 on the Sierra Club's Top 10 Cool Schools. The schools are rated on areas such as waste, student activism, green buildings and energy. UF received a score of 86 out of 100 and was highlighted for the water facility that processes three million gallons of reclaimed water per day and serves more than 90 percent of the campus.