ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The University of New Mexico recently released its first comprehensive sustainability plan to reduce its environmental footprint, highlighting key areas it plans to change to meet better energy and operations standards. The five-year plan is a culmination of an extensive year-long process that gathered feedback from the campus community through interviews, focus groups, a campus-wide survey, and town halls.

"The plan outlines goals in the areas of energy and greenhouse gas reduction, water use and land, waste, transportation, and food and dining on the transform campus operations side," UNM Sustainability Director Anne Jakle said. "Each goal area has a number of actions to achieve the goal."

Each action item has to do with lessening human impact on resources li

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