Sustainability: Home

The Office of Sustainability provides leadership and direction for sustainability programs at WPI. The Office coordinates efforts across WPI’s administrative, academic, and facilities areas in order to reach WPI’s sustainability goals.

Learn how WPI is creating an ecosystem of sustainability through new technologies and approaches to sustainability as well as a living and learning laboratory that engages students, faculty, researchers, and staff to generate new and innovative solutions to the challenges of our changing planet.

WPI's International Development, Environment, and Sustainability (IDEaS) program encourages students to challenge convention while giving them the tools and support they need to examine, tackle, and ultimately solve the world’s most urgent environmental, social, and technological crises.

This guide presents selected resources related to climate change and global warming.

This guide provides selected resources related to LCA, which is a technique to assess the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product, process, or service.

This guide presents resources related to the themes of the 17 SDGs.

This guide provides selected resources on the topics of the environment and sustainability as they relate to these regions. Each resource category provides sources on a regional and country basis.

This guide presents selected resources such as books, journals, films & videos on Earth Day topics.

A research guide to the wide range of journals, ebooks, and more than 5,400 Open Access research reports in the field of sustainability. The subjects of resilience and sustainability are explored broadly, covering research on environmental stresses and their impact on society.