Lab Expectations

As stewards of the planet, we’re always trying to find ways to reduce our corporate carbon footprint and offset the environmental damage done through research. Operating a lab requires a lot of electricity: powering the freezers, microscopes, autostainers, and so much more. It all adds up. If you’re like us, you also want to find a way to give back, beyond the good that your research provides.

It probably comes as no surprise to you, since you work in a lab, that labs use five times the amount of water as a standard office building.

Science is science, even if it's examining totally different aspects of nature like stem cell niches versus marine habitat niches. As a company grounded in science, CST values the efforts of non-profit organizations in our community that are working to protect our ecosystems.

Last year we organized a week’s worth of events for Earth Week, culminating with the international “March for Science” where over 50 US employees attended a march and rally in Boston, MA. Wanting to advance our employee engagement on environmental action, this year we opted for an Earth Month with weekly workplace events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities.

Cell Signaling Technology (CST) is proud to announce a plan to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to meet voluntary targets set by the 2015 COP21 Paris Climate Accords. As a company with a longstanding commitment to the environment through support of conservation, philanthropy, energy management, and sustainable packaging, we wanted to take independent action to meet COP21 climate targets. CST adopted these measures in November 2016 at a CST global leadership meeting that happened to coincide with the COP22 UN Climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco.