Editing Seattle University (section)

==Environmental sustainability==
[[File:Seattle U Fountain 03 A.jpg|thumb|[[Centennial Fountain (Seattle University)|Centennial Fountain]] with [[Garrand Hall]] (School of Nursing), Administration Building, Piggot Hall (Albers School of Business)]]

Among Seattle University's many environmental undertakings are projects ranging from composting initiatives to water conservation. There are also solar panels on buildings and a central recycling yard with an extensive recycling program.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seattleu.edu/sustainability|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 11, 2011|title=Mmm, Mmm Good...and Good for You!|website=Seattle University|access-date=August 31, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911095049/http://www.seattleu.edu/sustainability/}}</ref> The university has been composting since 1995, and in 2003 it built the first composting facility in the state on an urban campus.

Seattle University received the Sustainability Innovator Award in 2007 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute for its pre-consumer food waste composting program and the Green Washington Award in 2008 from ''Washington CEO Magazine'' for its sustainable landscape practices and pre-consumer food waste composting program.<ref name="seattleu.edu"/> ''[[The Princeton Review]]''{{'}}s 2018 Green Rating rated the school as the #12 Green College in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guide to 399 Green Colleges: 2018 Edition Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/green-guide/press-release |website=[[The Princeton Review]] |access-date=29 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824033537/https://www.princetonreview.com/press/green-guide/press-release |archive-date=August 24, 2019}}</ref>

Seattle U's move to a pesticide-free campus began in the early 1980s when [[Ciscoe Morris]], now a local gardening personage, was head of the grounds department. He put a halt to chemical spraying and in its place released more than 20,000 beneficial insects called [[lacewing]]s to eat the aphids that had infested trees on campus. The success of this led to other pesticide-free gardening practices.<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview with Cisco--Part II |date=March 8, 2014 |url= https://www.kruckeberg.org/interview-with-ciscoe-part-ii/ |access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref>

In 2023, Seattle University became the first [[List of colleges and universities in Washington (state)|university in Washington state]] and the first Jesuit university to fully [[Fossil fuel divestment|divest its endowment portfolio from fossil fuels]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=Seattle |title=Seattle University First in the State to Divest from Fossil Fuels |url=https://www.seattleu.edu/newsroom/stories/2023/seattle-university-first-in-the-state-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Seattle University |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-17 |title=Seattle University becomes first WA college to divest from fossil fuels |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/seattle-university-becomes-first-wa-college-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}</ref>