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Food for thought: What we can do to make the world a more sustainable place

Trees

Trees

June Yeol Shin
Perhaps you take the stairs as much as you can, reuse and recycle or even convert yourself to a vegan. These are all important actions but many of our everyday efforts to play a part in achieving
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Wherefore sustainability: Nature’s torch

Wherefore sustainability: Nature’s torch

Suriya Prakash Ganesan
Ecologist Sawid Abbas from Hong Kong Polytechnic  University states that these limited tree species are more vulnerable to (drumroll)  CLIMATE CHANGE: perhaps the excessively used term of th
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Urban Farming

Urban Farming

VINCENT TANG
Following the invention of the internet humanity has never been so connected, this sharing of knowledge globally has led to levels of development unimaginable with no signs of slowing down anytime soo
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The Future of Clean Energy for Low-carbon MiC Public Housing using Smart Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPVs)

The Future of Clean Energy for Low-carbon MiC Public Housing using Smart Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPVs)

Elisha Rahardjo & Stefanie Wong
  Our two SSC summer interns visited Fanling for a progress demonstration and had an insightful interview with the project leader, Prof. Changying Xiang.   The integration of PV sy
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Mindful Consumption

Mindful Consumption

Vanshika Yadav
We as individuals make millions of economic choices related to buying goods over our lifetime. But have you ever wondered how many of these choices are actually necessary? Have you ever gone to the ma
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Urban Spring Smart Hub

Urban Spring Smart Hub

Hansika Murugu
If I was a sea turtle, I would probably not be wishing the absolute best for humans. Or if I was a whale. Or a seal. What is with this particular selection of animals, you ask? All their lives are
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By 2020, HKUST has successfully wrapped up its first 5-year Sustainability Master Plan with significant progress made in reducing waste and energy consumption.

View the report here.

- 7.9 %

Electricity (kWh)

- 50.2 %

Trash (ton)

- 28 %

Greenhouse gas (ton CO2-e)

+ 687 %

Recyclables (ton)

+ 9,176 %

Food waste recycling (ton)

HKUST launched the Sustainable Smart Campus as a Living Lab initiative in 2019, with the aim of empowering university members to devise and demonstrate innovations on campus as a testing ground for wider application in the future.

HK$ 50 M

Funding allocated for this initiative

35

Number of funded projects

11

Number of co-funded projects

500 +

Students involved

200 +

Faculty involved