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Sustainability events are happening year-round at UofL!
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| June 19, 2013 | Renewable Energy and Environmental Stewardship - UofL in Atlanta
Wednesday, June 19th 6-8pm Atlantic Room, Georgia Aquarium (225 Baker Street NW, Atlanta, GA) Join UofL President James Ramsey as he gives a university update and discusses our Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research. Named in honor of major donors Hank & Rebecca Conn, who reside in Atlanta, the Center conducts and facilitates research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies that could potentially be commercialized. The Center provides access to research and development services and facilitates with the goal of seamlessly moving ideas from the lab to marketplace. Featured speakers include President Ramsey and Dr. Mahendra Sunkara, Interim Director of the Conn Center. For more info, contact: Jimmy Henderson, 502-852-0089, Jimmy.Henderson@louisville.edu. Register here. |
| June 20, 2013 | Gray Street Farmers’ Market 20/20 Mini-Workshop: "Meet Your Farmers" with Andrea Sinclair, Program Coordinator, Bioethics and Medical Humanities; GSFM governance committee memberThursday, June 20th 12:20-12:40pm Room 103, School of Public Health & Info Sciences The new 20/20 mini-workshop series of 20-minute educational sessions at the Gray St. Farmers' Market continues! Over 20 weeks, we'll cover several themes to help market attendees feel more confident purchasing, eating, growing, and preparing local food from the farmers market. These discussions start at 12:20 p.m. each week in Room 103 at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences. Gray Street Farmers’ Market Thursdays, 10:30am‒2pm (May 16th through Oct. 31st) Health Sciences Center, 485 E. Gray St. With 12 vendors at this year's market, you'll find the finest in farm-fresh local products, including prepared lunches, fruits, vegetables, honey, baked & canned goods, oils, soaps, granola and more. Debit cards and SNAP benefits accepted. UofL's School of Public Health and Information Sciences sponsors the market. Full details here. Contact: Melissa Schreck. Easily accessible from Belknap Campus on TARC Route 18 (free with UofL ID) or via a pleasant 15 minute bike ride. |
| June 21, 2013 | Sustainable City Series: Tactical UrbanismFriday, June 21st at 6:00pm Fresh Start Growers' Supply (1007 E Jefferson St, Louisville, KY 40202) Join us for the next Sustainable City Series forum, brought to you by UofL's Urban Design Studio. Tactical Urbanism is a fast-growing, international movement to catalyze change in cities by utilizing small-scale pilot projects and other actions to advance long-term change. Some examples include Park(ing) Day, CycLouvia, Food Trucks, Better Blocks Program, and Pop-up Retail to name a few. TU projects frequently involve organizing local community members to utilize inexpensive materials to temporarily transform small areas into higher quality places. The intent is to provide a proof of concept before more expensive infrastructure is committed. These interventions get the community involved in the process, and often excited, which helps build support and understanding by allowing the community to tangibly visualize the potential of underutilized space.
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| June 22, 2013 |
Tactical Urbanism Block Party & Salon Saturday, June 22nd 8:00am (block party) & 11:00am (salon) 800 Block of East Market St. Full Details, RSVP & Volunteer Registration here.
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| June 27, 2013 | Gray Street Farmers’ Market 20/20 Mini-Workshop: "Fun with Fruits (and Veggies)" with Amber Barnes, RD, LD, Wellness Dietitian at UofL HospitalThursday, June 27th 12:20-12:40pm Room 103, School of Public Health & Info Sciences The new 20/20 mini-workshop series of 20-minute educational sessions at the Gray St. Farmers' Market continues! Over 20 weeks, we'll cover several themes to help market attendees feel more confident purchasing, eating, growing, and preparing local food from the farmers market. These discussions start at 12:20 p.m. each week in Room 103 at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences. Gray Street Farmers’ Market Thursdays, 10:30am‒2pm (May 16th through Oct. 31st) Health Sciences Center, 485 E. Gray St. With 12 vendors at this year's market, you'll find the finest in farm-fresh local products, including prepared lunches, fruits, vegetables, honey, baked & canned goods, oils, soaps, granola and more. Debit cards and SNAP benefits accepted. UofL's School of Public Health and Information Sciences sponsors the market. Full details here. Contact: Melissa Schreck. Easily accessible from Belknap Campus on TARC Route 18 (free with UofL ID) or via a pleasant 15 minute bike ride. |
| Aug. 1, 2013 | Slow Money - Slow Fuel Panel Thursday, August 1st at 6:30pm in Ekstrom Library Chao Auditorium Join us for a community conversation with reknowned authors Carol Hewitt and Lyle Estill of Piedmont Biofuel. Carol is an author, business owner, rabble-rouser, and pioneer in the Slow Money movement. Since co-founding Slow Money NC in 2010, she has catalyzed nearly 80 low-interest loans totaling about $725,000 to 38 small farmers and local food businesses in North Carolina, building resilience in the local economy from the coast to the mountains. Carol’s latest book, Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money, tells the compelling, real life stories of twenty-two of those Slow Money entrepreneurs – folks who grow, process, distribute, and sell us local food – and the motivations behind the people in their communities who become their lenders. Fueled by their desire to do more than just eat local food, lenders of “nurture capital” are making low-interest, peer-to-peer loans to the people who produce, process, distribute and sell local food. This event is sponsored by UofL's Sustainability Council, which has been working to cement local partnerships to supply our campus community with more local food, to support area farmers, and local biodiesel manufactures. More details to come... |
| Aug. 21-28, 2013 |
Sustainability is being woven into Welcome Week events, including:
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| Sept. 12-13, 2013 | 4pm Thursday Sept. 12th & Noon Friday Sept. 13th Location and details TBA UofL's Dept. of Biology is bringing to campus the 2013 Tyler Prize for the Environment laureate, Dr. Diana Wall! This highly prestigious award recognizes her many global contributions to ecology in helping us to understand the role soil biodiversity plays in the environment and for human well-being. Dr. Wall is a Professor of Biology at Colorado State University whose research program integrates collaborative, multidisciplinary studies at the organismal through ecosystem levels, to ask and answer questions about their impacts at landscape and global scales. She studies how soil biodiversity controls carbon cycling through decomposition and the processing of organic matter, and affect soil fertility by mineralizing nutrients and making these available for plants. The regulation of above and below ground interactions, especially the control and suppression of plant and animal pests and pathogens, after soils are disturbed, is an ongoing interest. Dr. Wall finds that studying simple, low diversity polar ecosystems (the McMurdo Antarctica LTER) contributes to understanding how physical and biotic factors shape soil ecosystems and their biota. Read more about her work in Antarctica. |
| Sept. 17-24, 2013 | WEEK WITHOUT VIOLENCE September 17-24, 2013 This worldwide campaign encourages communities to think and act towards a world without violence. Activities at UofL will focus on raising awareness, promoting attitude change and enabling individuals and organizations to begin positive actions towards ending violence in their communities. Full details TBA, but events include:
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| Sept. 20, 2013 | Mindfulness Meditation "Take 20" Class Friday, Sept. 20th, 12:30-12:50pm, University Club All UofL employees and their spouses are encouraged to participate in Get Healthy Now's TAKE 20 TO RELAX and impact your health and happiness in a BIG way. Register here. |
| Sept. 27, 2013 | Mindfulness Meditation "Take 20" Class Friday, May 27th, 12:30-12:50pm, Nursing School Room 2023 All UofL employees and their spouses are encouraged to participate in Get Healthy Now's TAKE 20 TO RELAX and impact your health and happiness in a BIG way. Register here. |
| Oct. 5, 2013 | Louisville Solar Tour Saturday, October 5th Noon-4pm. Various sites. UofL will host tour sites along with UofL employees and students who live in solar-powered homes. We'll open our doors to give you a glimpse of our renewable energy future! Throughout the afternoon, you can tour dozens of different homes and institutions on your own or as part of group bus or bike tours. Full details to come... |
| Oct. 6-9, 2013 |
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) 2013 Conference: "Resiliency & Adaptation" Sunday, Oct. 6th through Wednesday, Oct. 9th Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, TN
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| Oct. 12, 2013 | Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference: “Food Sustainability and Justice” Saturday, October 12th, all day Kentucky Country Day School (4100 Springdale Rd, Louisville, KY 40241) The 14th annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference is for people and organizations who care about where their food comes from....and that their daily repast is ethically and sustainably raised / grown and harvested. The conference is supported by UofL's Sustainability Council which supplies experts and learning stations. Featured speakers will include:
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| Oct. 21-29, 2013 | UofL Sustainability Week! Oct. 21-29, 2013 Over a full week of events to celebrate and raise awareness! More events and full details TBA. Events will include:
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| Oct. 27-29, 2013 | “Transforming and Sustaining Communities through Partnerships” UofL Hosts 19th annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) 1pm Sunday, Oct. 27th through noon Tuesday, Oct. 29th Galt House Hotel (140 N 4th St, Louisville, KY 40202) Presentation Tracks include: Environmental Initiatives; Healthy Communities; Partnerships for Education; Economic Development and Revitalization. As the Coalition sets out to redefine itself, this year’s conference promises dynamic poster and concurrent sessions, thought-provoking panels, fantastic keynote speakers, and unlimited networking opportunities. Full Conference Details. |
| Through Oct. 31, 2013 | Gray Street Farmers’ Market![]() Thursdays, 10:30am‒2pm (May 16th through Oct. 31st) Health Sciences Center, 485 E. Gray St. With 12 vendors at this year's market, you'll find the finest in farm-fresh local products, including prepared lunches, fruits, vegetables, honey, baked & canned goods, oils, soaps, granola and more. Debit cards and SNAP benefits accepted. UofL's School of Public Health and Information Sciences sponsors the market. Full details here. Contact: Melissa Schreck. Easily accessible from Belknap Campus on TARC Route 18 (free with UofL ID) or via a pleasant 15 minute bike ride. |
| Oct. 31, 2013 | Professional Development & Campus Sustainability Tour: “Culture Shift – Making UofL Lean and Green in 2013” Wednesday, Oct. 31st 2:00-3:30pm, Cultural Center multipurpose room All UofL employees are encouraged to join us for a Belknap Campus Sustainability Walking Tour and professional development session! This dynamic and engaging session led by experts in the field will provide you with a helpful introduction to the basic principles of sustainability and how to apply them in your professional and personal decision-making at work and at home. This professional development session has been designed to offer staff and faculty at any level with a wide variety of practical tips that you can use to help UofL shift our culture towards become better stewards of the environment while saving money and helping build a brighter tomorrow for society. Attendees will better understand UofL's commitment to sustainability and learn how each step we take contributes to big results for us individually, for the university, and for the broader community. The session will also introduce you to UofL’s new Eco-Reps Program, which gives you the opportunity to go deeper with follow-up trainings online, a certification, group and individual service projects, and the empowerment of becoming a point-person for sustainability in your unit. Registration TBA here. |
- What did I miss?! Check out our Past Events log.
- Meeting times for the Sustainability Council and its Committees are available here:
- The Sustainability Council's anchor event each fall is Campus Sustainability Day in mid-October:


with Andrea Sinclair, Program Coordinator, Bioethics and Medical Humanities; GSFM governance committee member
Sustainable City Series: Tactical Urbanism
