This community orchard aims to educate and create access to local food through a partnership with Philadelphia Orchard Project.

During the summer and fall, the Philadelphia Orchard Project hosts volunteer days at the orchard once per month. Check back in summer 2026 for upcoming opportunities. 

To connect current and past Penn students, staff and faculty with an interest in sustainability.

The climate emergency is everyone's business. Join Climate Week at Penn to find your place in the climate movement.

The Kleinman Center and Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology host events across campus focused on energy and related issues. Energy Week 2026 is February 23 – 27.

Drawing together research in anthropology, history, science and technology studies, urban geography and the physical sciences, EnviroLab asks: How might situated human-animal-environment relations be key sites from which to reimagine and rearticulate more just and nourishing modes of inhabiting of our climate changed planet?

EnviroLab supports graduate students research at all stages of their PhD, focusing on hosting workshops where students share works in progress (conferences papers, proposals, dissertation chapters and article drafts).  Envirolab also hosts events open to the public, including a monthly reading group, faculty workshops, and an annual conference. 

In workshops for climate storytellers from the sixth grade on up, participants are sharing how we’re making sense of global climate change. These stories connect big data to real and personal experiences. They show how local climate impacts are shaping life stories, and how they’re making us feel.

The Penn Farm, which originated through the Penn Food and Wellness Collaborative (PFWC), is a unique, multidisciplinary initiative that engages stakeholders from across the Penn community around four central pillars of wellness, food access, sustainability, and education.

Experiential education for Wharton students in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) integration through real-world consulting projects with partner asset owners, asset managers, consultancies, and corporations.

The Faculty Senate Select Committee on the Institutional Response to the Climate Emergency (CIRCE) was established in December 2019 for the purpose of facilitating discussion of all aspects of global warming and climate change as they pertain to faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

Faculty can read, sign, and act on the Penn Faculty Climate Pledge. 

Designed to improve environmental awareness and behavior change, the program builds knowledge and leadership across Penn’s schools and centers by empowering staff and faculty to champion sustainability across Penn. 

Any staff or faculty interested in advancing Penn's sustainability goals and decreasing the environmental impact of their workspace can sign-up for the PEACE newsletter and/or attend events. 

 Sign-up for the monthly PEACE newsletter for advice and opportunities to champion sustainability at Penn. The newsletter also promotes upcoming events on relevant sustainability topics and informal roundtable discussion times for staff and faculty to share challenges and successes around making their workplaces more sustainable.