Operating rooms are central to what hospitals do but they’re also at the root of a problem Woods and others at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are trying to solve: how to reduce carbon pollution.
Students, faculty, staff and outside organizations are encouraged to develop “an integrated, impactful, durable and feasible solution to advance carbon neutrality with lasting benefits” to the Pitt community.
Plastic traded between countries has the carbon footprint of a mid-sized European country. By 2050, it will account for 15% of the world's greenhouse gases.
A University of Pittsburgh panel that weighed fossil fuel divestment has delivered to school trustees for their review on Friday a report with options that stop short of completely eliminating those holdings in the near future, as activists have sought.
Pitt's board of trustees will form an ad-hoc committee to study whether the University should divest its $4.3 billion endowment of fossil fuel investments.
As several alumni met privately Tuesday with University of Pittsburgh administrators to urge a school vote next month to shed its fossil fuel financial holdings, protesters nearby kept up the pressure to divest with a noon rally.
