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My name is Xavier Gomez, and I’m a rising sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I am double majoring in systems engineering and Spanish, along with a […]

Wishful recycling (placing items in recycling that is actually garbage) costs Mecklenburg County over $1.6M per year. Those costs arise from the special processing cost that the County pays to […]

Before Lisa encountered Sustain Charlotte, she struggled to know how to connect her passion for the environment with her day-to-day life. At the time, she worked in single-family homebuilding, an […]

While 2020 has required many adaptations from all of us, Sustain Charlotte has continued to work hard for the long-term health of our community. Here are a few of the […]

2020 has been a hard year for all of us. A public health crisis, social distancing, civil unrest, and widespread unemployment–our realities have changed greatly over the past several months. […]

You’re invited to attend a 4-part workshop series to learn about how smart growth can help to improve health, economic mobility, and overall quality of life for people living in […]

Will Pellisero has long been a sustainability advocate. He and his family are big fans of composting, gardening, and solar energy. But before connecting with Sustain Charlotte, he hadn’t made […]

For all of us, 2020 has been an incredibly challenging year. We’re facing a global health crisis, an economic recession, and civil unrest. Things may feel bleak–but there are some […]

Last night, Shannon Binns, Sustain Charlotte’s founder and executive director, attended the public hearing for the City’s FY21 proposed budget. While we’re grateful for the allocations made for transportation investments, […]

Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.  And on this day each year, one billion people all over the world pause and reflect on a simple fact that we […]