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When Denver’s largest compost provider announced last year that it would no longer accept paper products and takeout containers, many compost operations throughout the Front Range came to a grinding halt, including the one ran by the Auraria Sustainability Campus Program. The tri-institutional program, which works in collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Community College of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver, developed an innovative solution: Bring all composting in-house.

Auraria Sustainable Campus Program holds ninth annual hunger and homeless awareness week Chronic homelessness has increased 130% in the past 10 years in Colorado. The cost of living has increased substantially throughout this period as well. The Auraria Sustainable Campus Program recently held the ninth annual hunger and homelessness awareness week. The event helped connect students and community members to food, shelter, resources and information. The ASCP is a tri-institutional effort with MSU Denver,...

On Sept. 25, the ASCP and its Auraria Campus partners celebrated a ribbon cutting for the campus’ first-ever facility dedicated to composting organic materials, which will be reused as soil for landscaping. The site will help the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program (ASCP) reach its goal of keeping 35% of campus waste out of landfills by the end of 2024.

Waste diversion efforts ramping up with new in-house composter coming soon Auraria’s sustainability team is bringing compost operations to campus. Campus food waste has been collected and composted in recent years, but has only been processed by private composters near Denver. Now, the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program, a student fee funded organization representing all three higher education institutions on Auraria Campus, ordered its own composting machine to operate right here on campus. The new...

You can't manage what you don't measure.

In an effort to get a handle on water leaks and water management, a campus-wide initiative was organized by the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC), the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program (ASCP) and the One World One Water Center (OWOW) to map irrigation and locate the source of the leaks.