Center for sustainability Solutions

CSS, GPC, SDSN

Center for Sustainability Solutions

University of Kelaniya is the First National University in Sri Lanka to Adopt an Environment Policy

500+ PEOPLE WORKING WITH US

University of Kelaniya, one of the leading universities in Sri Lanka, is capable of demonstrating the principle of sustainability both in theory and in practice through understanding unsustainable practices and thereby taking actions to reduce impacts of their own activities to the economy, society and the environment.

Habitat Management

Tree planting and habitat enhancement programs are being carried out to increase the greenery in the university premises and to attract animals, The removal of the noxious weed

LATEST NEWS

Streamlining paper waste management of University of Kelaniya

There is a necessity to introduce waste bins to collect waste papers from all departments in the university in order to impro…

Certificate awarding ceremony of “Sustainability Leadership training program for the Youth – 2018”

The certificate awarding ceremony of “Sustainability Leadership Training Program for the Youth 2018”organized by the Cent…

Mihikathata Dayawen – Sustainability Leadership Development Programme

Student volunteers of Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS) participated a sustainability leadership development programm…

RECENT PROJECT

Introduction of water saving strategies to University Hostels

Per capita water consumption and water usage pattern of of students who received accommodation facilities in the Yakkaduwe Pannarama Boys Hostel (YPBH) was studied…

Installation of an additional tap system with stainless steel wash basins

Disposal of lunch sheets affects almost every kind of environment including terrestrial as well as aquatic biome, it makes the surrounding appear untidy and unpleasant an…

Water management at the University

University as a responsible higher educational institute, promotes waste water collection, treatment and reuse. Waste water released from the university hostels, are bein…

SOME FACTS

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Greening the University

The awareness of limited resources availability, environmental problems and pollution as well as the increasing demand for products, energy and materials are calling for a new paradigm in knowledge sharing and generation in higher education institutions, Since the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 there has been growing international interest in the role of education in fostering a sustainable future and universities are now under increasing pressure to engage with and respond to climate change and other sustainable development issues.

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Sep

“Youth Sustainability Initiative – 2017”

The third programme of “Youth Sustainability – 2017” organized by the Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS) of the University of Kelaniya was held on the 19th of September 2017

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Nov

Promoting Dengue Prevention activities & Establishing a Green Task Force

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Mar

“Manusath Derana” One Million Tree Planting in University of Kelaniya

With the aim of sustainability, the third stage of one million tree planting project, conducted by Manusath Derana team, in collaboration with the Alumni of Marketing Management of the University of Kelaniya at the University Gardening Premises.