A Commitment to Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences

Sustainability is often defined as meeting current human needs without endangering our descendants. The California Academy of Sciences' mission to explore, explain, and protect the natural world compels the Academy to engage in scientific research relevant to sustainability, to raise public awareness about these urgent problems, and to minimize its own environmental impact. The Academy's green building signifies its commitment to sustainability. The culture and internal practices mirror that commitment in the areas of energy, water, waste management, transportation, purchasing, and food. Academy programs highlight the living world and its connection to the changing global environment. As an organization, California Academy of Sciences is unique as the building that it sits in. It is a building that houses an Aquarium, Planetarium, an indoor Rainforest, Natural History Museum, Caf