Environment | Sustainability at Georgia Tech

Hope Among the Pines: A Field Tour in Southeast Georgia Presents Carbon Exchange as Solution

Field tour attendees in Soperton, Georgia.

Jul 28, 2026

The Georgia Carbon Exchange can provide economic incentives to help landowners keep and manage their forests for carbon sequestration, with benefits to impact the entire state.

Rapid Testing Offers Path to More Sustainable Material Choices

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Mercury ID

680664

Jul 24, 2026

At Georgia Tech’s Daedalus Lab, Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun are working to provide greater certainty to designers and engineers by rethinking how materials are tested for their fracture characteristics.

Bruce Weinelt Joins BBISS as Managing Director

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Mercury ID

680510

Jun 24, 2026

Bruce will develop and lead BBISS’s external partnership and fundraising strategy, grounded in the Institute's academic research priorities.

Mining New Possibilities for Critical Minerals: Mapping a Stronger U.S. Supply Chain

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United States map showing the eight regions of the CORE-CM Initiative. Courtesy: <a href="https://netl-exchange.energy.gov/FileContent.aspx?FileID=fe48ff94-6a59-… of Energy Core-CM Initiative</a>

Mercury ID

680536

Jun 24, 2026

A new Department of Energy award will help Georgia Tech lead a regional effort to identify, recover, and reuse materials essential to energy, manufacturing, and national security.

Scientist Maps Biodiversity on a Warming Southern Landscape

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Mercury ID

660288

Jun 11, 2026

Jenny McGuire is refining tools and partnerships that help protect biodiversity, from Atlanta’s urban canopy to the southern Appalachians.

Data Centers, Microbes, and the Future of Water Reuse

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Mercury ID

680362

May 27, 2026

Metro Atlanta has become a magnet for hyperscale data centers and securing enough cooling water with wastewater reuse has unknown public health risks.

2026 Sustainability Next Seed Grants Awarded

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2026 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Principal Investigators: (R to L, Top to Bottom) Rounaq Basu, Sheng Dai, Anna Doll, Lilian Dove, Scott Duncan, Paula Gomez, Suhas S. Jain, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Sofía Pérez Guzmán, Caitlin Petro, Gregory Randolph, Rosemarie Santa Gonzalez, Ali Sarhadi, Richmond Wong, and Ruth C. Yow.

Mercury ID

680154

May 04, 2026

This year’s seed grant awards align with the four main thematic areas in which BBISS aims to enhance Georgia Tech’s research to address some of our most pressing sustainability challenges

Communicating During a Crisis

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Mercury ID

680036

Apr 22, 2026

The Center for Inclusive Climate Communication (CICC) at Georgia Tech is a new and growing consortium of researchers, organizations, agencies, and companies whose goal is to ensure that climate and disaster information of all types is widely accessible.

Understanding the Data Center Building Boom

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Mercury ID

679428

Feb 24, 2026

Explosive data center growth requires research to inform policies which manage the building of this critical infrastructure.

2026 BBISS Sustainability Showcase Recap: Resilience Is About Systems

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Mercury ID

679363

Feb 18, 2026

Across disciplines and scales, a unifying theme emerged: resilience is not a single solution. It is a systems-level challenge requiring integration across science and technology, policy, communities, and human experience.

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