June 2025

With extreme heat events becoming more frequent, much of the United States is experiencing record-breaking heat this June. Explore resources below for staying safe in the hot weather while minimizing your impact on and off campus:  

As brilliant as Georgia Tech students are, they still forget their water bottles around campus. The Office of Sustainability is advancing a campus circular economy by giving new life to forgotten water bottles and travel mugs from campus lost-and-founds. Once a beverage container is deemed abandoned (one year or more in lost-and-found), it is collected, sanitized, and branded with a sticker letting its new owner know about its circular economy journey. Visit us at events this fall to grab one! 

Are you a building manager or campus staff member with abandoned water bottles you'd like to donate to the program? Email Sustainability Coordinator Vanessa Suarez at vsuarez7@gatech.edu. 

The Office of Sustainability is proud of our students! They are transferring their newly learned skills to paid sustainability-related positions throughout the Southeast. 

Luke Riley, (BA 2025) recently accepted a full-time position as a Sustainability Data Analyst with CCL Industries (packaging & labeling company) supporting public reporting on GHG emissions and conducting audits across the company’s manufacturing plants.

“I wanted to say thank you for the opportunity to work at the Office of Sustainability because I truly would not have been able to land this role without the experience and education garnered during my time at the Office,” Luke said. “The support and hands on participation in sustainability initiatives was invaluable to my career and personal development.”

Abraham Werner (CE 2028), is interning with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Transportation Management Center this summer.

“Working with the Office of Sustainability as a Living Campus Fellow for the past year has been a career-defining experience! After switching my major to Civil Engineering, I joined the office eager to learn more about transportation engineering and sustainable mobility options. When I explained my interests, I was assigned a challenging project: revamping our campus micromobility. With guidance from the staff at Institute Infrastructure and Sustainability, I drafted a safety oriented shared-micromobility initiative and presented it to transportation consultants and executive administration at Georgia Tech. This experience helped me demonstrate my capabilities to recruiters, leading to an internship offer from GDOT’s Transportation Management Center for the summer,” Abe said.

Meet all of our 2025-2026 academic year student employees and see the projects they worked on here. 

Georgia Tech’s highest electricity consumption and electricity bills occur during the summer, when high temperatures demand more air conditioning on campus. Our Utilities Management team works to minimize these impacts through smart energy management approaches.