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Unit
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Project Name
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UofL Contact
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Project Description
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College of Arts and Sciences
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Floyd's Fork Environmental Clean Up Project
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Dr. Tommy Parker
tommy.parker (at) louisville.edu
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The project along Floyd's Fork is seen as a significant community
development for Jefferson and surrounding counties. Dr. Parker's efforts in this partnership
serves to empower project supporters, and the community generally, as to the
ecological benefits of the Floyd's Fork project.
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College of Arts and Sciences
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Park Hill Industrial Corridor
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Peter B. Meyer
pbmeyer (at) louisville.edu
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Project seeks to combine business, government and private sector
interests in developing and implementing a strategy for Brownfields/Smart
Growth conversion and investment. The
Park Hill Industrial Corridor is identified as a demonstration center for
"green" practices, near and long-term aesthetic improvements,
transportation changes, land-use enhancements and for programs and policies
needed to make it a magnet for businesses and new jobs.
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College of Arts and Sciences
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Sustainable City Series
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Patrick Piuma
patrick.piuma (at) louisville.edu
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Partnerships with various organizations provide the opportunity for
education, raised awareness and varying practices relating to sustainable
living and modeling for that behavioral activity. Taken as a whole, the series provides an
illumination of what is possible in our local community and in our nation if
we make these aspects of life a priority in our lives.
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College of Arts and Sciences
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Urban Forest Data Collection Project
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Dr. Margaret Carreiro
margaret.carreiro (at) louisville.edu
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Project collects data and information on the urban forest; including
the size of trees, information on their condition and the identity and
variety of trees in the urban area.
This data aids in urban planning and in areas related to ecological
planning.
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College of Education and Human Development
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Environmental Education Committee of the Partnership for a Green City
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Ingrid Weiland
isweil01 (at) louisville.edu
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The Environmental Education Committee falls under the larger umbrella
of the Partnership for a Green City and serves as a unique central component of
the organization. The purpose of the
EEC is to increase environmental literacy through a strengthened
collaboration of JCPS/UofL/and Metro Government. A position was created in the College of
Education and Human Development in 2006 to provide leadership for both the
EEC and the Center for Environmental Education.
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College of Education and Human Development
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Meade Activity Center (MAC) Project
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Dr. Kristi King
kristi.king (at) louisville.edu
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Sedentary lifestyles are the norm for Kentuckians with over 30% participating
in no physical activity at all with over two-thirds of Kentuckians classified
as overweight or obese. Rural areas, like Meade County, are especially
susceptible to poor health outcomes due to the lack of physical activity
opportunities and places, sidewalks, limited access to walkable play spaces
and inability to actively commute (bicycle or walk) thus fostering a
sedentary lifestyle.6-9 The Meade Activity Center (MAC) Projects vision is to
create physical activity opportunities and places that will address the gaps
in availability of services due to income disparity at the individual and
county levels. The primary goal is to offer a variety of quality physical
activity programs to Meade County residents who have not had access to
programs previously.
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School of Public Health and Information Sciences
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Gray Street Farmers Market
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Melissa Schreck
melissa.schreck (at) louisville.edu
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As part of its outreach program, the School of Public Health and
Information Sciences (SPHIS) worked with community partners to launch the
Gray Street Farmers’ Market. The goal of the market is to increase access to
fresh, locally grown food in the downtown area. The Gray Street Farmers'
Market will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Thursday from mid-May
through the end of October. The market is located on the 400 block of E. Gray
Street, between S. Preston and S. Jackson streets.
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School of Public Health and Information Sciences
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Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness
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Muriel Harris
mjharr08 (at) louisville.edu
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Collaborative activities with LMPHW span a wide spectrum including
training, education, public events, research, student activities and staff
support. Regular interactions among SPHIS personnel and LMPHW continue to
yield innovative approaches to public health and garners local and national
attention.
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School of Public Health and Information Sciences
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Louisville Putting Prevention to Work
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Dr. Muriel Harris
mjharr08 (at) louisville.edu
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SPHIS provides evaluation services to the Louisville Putting
Prevention to Work federally funded grant to change environmental and systems
factors and implement policies to address the high rates of obesity in the
Louisville Metro area.
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School of Public Health and Information Sciences
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Partnership for a Green City - Environmental Health Committee
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Brent Fryrear, Director / EOHS: Robert Jacobs, PhD
robert.jacobs (at) louisville.edu
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The Partnership for a Green City consists of the University of
Louisville, Louisville Metro Government, Jefferson County Public Schools. Committee members from UofL include the KY
Institute Environment & Sustainable Development (KIESD), School of Public
Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS), Center for Environmental
Education/College of Ed & Human Development, Geography/Geosciences Dept.,
Pediatrics/UCHS, School of Medicine (SOM), School of Nursing (SON). Other committee members include
representatives from JCPS; Louisville Metro Department of Public Health &
Wellness, Passport; KY Lung Assoc.; Kosair Children’s Hospital-Child Advocate/Ed.
Dept; Air Pollution Control District.
Dr. Robert Jacobs is the SPHIS Department of Environmental &
Occupational Health Sciences representative on the Climate Change Committee. Following are the committee’s goals.
1. Collaborate on respiratory diseases
(i.e., asthma or COPD) to enhance adaptive strategies to intervene and reduce
the impact of air pollution on respiratory issues.
2. Collaborate on preparedness
planning for disease outbreak and heat stress.
3. Create adaptive strategies that
ensure persons at risk are identified and that effective intervention
programs are available to populations vulnerable to poor air quality.
4. Support the distribution, training
and use of AEDs across the Partnership organizations.
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School of Public Health and Information Sciences
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Project Waterway Now (WIN)
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David Tollerud, MD, MPH
david.tollerud (at) louisville.edu
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To address the challenges of improving our water quality, MSD
embarked on a comprehensive sewer improvement program that will eliminate
major sources of water pollution throughout Louisville Metro. The new
initiative is called “Project WIN” (Waterway Improvements Now). Planned upgrades under Project WIN will
allow MSD to comply with Clean Water Act regulations.
Project WIN will address problems with combined and sanitary sewer
overflows. During rain storms, the
sewers become overloaded with rainwater and discharge the combined water and
sewage into local streams and the Ohio River. MSD has committed to take necessary
measures to control sewer overflows under a federal Consent Decree with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the Kentucky Division of
Water (DOW).
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Provost
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Bike Louisville
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Justin Mog
jmmog001 (at) louisville.edu
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The Sustainability Council is partnering with Metro government's Bike
Louisville program and the non-profit Bicycling for Louisville to promote
increased use of the bicycle for transportation to campus and around town
through bicycle safety & confidence classes, printing and distribution of
the new city bike map, and Bike to Work Month (May) events and competition.
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Provost
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Garden Commons
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Michael Anthony
cultural (at) louisville.edu
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The Cultural Center at the University of Louisville is literally
embarking on a ground-breaking initiative to proactively “go green.” In
partnership with Louisville Grows, a non-profit working to ensure our city’s
sustainable future through education, leadership, and the coordination of
resources, the Cultural Center will be supporting student leaders to develop
a community garden on campus. This garden will be a physical addition to the
Center’s evolving energy-conscious policies and actions.
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Vice President of Athletics
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EDGE Outreach
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Ken Lolla
ken.lolla (at) louisville.edu
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Purpose is to serve other through the mission of EDGE Outreach. The players and staff were trained to
install and use water purification systems.
The program and it's members raised funds to pay for a trip to Brazil
to install the water purification systems and train the locals on how to use
them.
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Vice President Business Affairs
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Memorandum of Agreement for Transit Services
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Doreen Wood
doreen.wood (at) louisville.edu
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Provide transit services to the University of Louisville community
for a specific campus route and to provide members of the University
community fare-free service all TARC routes.
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Vice President Business Affairs
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Memorandum of Agreement for Transit Services
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Doreen Wood
doreen.wood (at) louisville.edu
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To establish agreement for TARC to provide transit Services and
programs between TARC and the University of Louisville.
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Vice President Community Engagement; College of Arts and Sciences;
Kent School of Social Work
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The California Collaborative
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Dr. Ralph Fitzpatrick
r0fitz01 (at) louisville.edu
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To implement a neighborhood management system inspired by the
NeighborWorks America model for neighborhood revitalization.
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Vice President Information Technology
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UK/UL IT Collaboration
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Dr. Priscilla Hancock
Priscilla.hancock (at) louisville.edu
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Partner in areas of disaster recovery, sustainability, and other
areas that may result in cost savings and or knowledge sharing.
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Vice President Student Affairs
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Food Literacy Project Oxmoor Farm:
Bonner Leader site
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Kim Johnson Shaver
kkjohn01 (at) louisville.edu
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The Food Literacy Project provides farm-based experiential education
and entrepreneurial youth development programs that bring the Field-to-Fork
experience to life for local youth.
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Vice President Student Affairs
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MLK Jr. Day of Service
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Pam Nessle Curtis
pncurt01 (at) louisville.edu
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During the holiday for MLK Jr.'s birthday, the campus community is
given the opportunity to spend part of the day doing service in
Louisville. There is an opening
speaker celebrating the legacy of MLK Jr. and a wrap up reflection session at
the end of the day.
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Vice President Student Affairs
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SOUL Service Saturdays
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Pam Nessle Curtis
pncurt01 (at) louisville.edu
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An extension of the large service project done in August. Students are given an opportunity to
connect with service throughout the year on various Saturdays.
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Vice President Student Affairs
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Welcome Week SOUL (Student Outreach Uniting Louisville)
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Pam Nessle Curtis
pncurt01 (at) louisville.edu
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An annual service project held the Saturday before fall classes
start. Part of the Welcome Week series
of events, the purpose of this program is to introduce our incoming students
to a culture of service while at UofL as well as to provide an opportunity to
explore some of the city they will be calling home.
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Executive Vice President for Research
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Partnership for a Green City
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Brent Fryrear
BFryrear (at) louisville.edu
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The Partnership works on sustainability initiatives across four
public organizations, working to increase organizational sustainability while
also being good stewards of the taxpayers money.
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Total UofL Involvement in these 2011-12 Partnerships:
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Faculty & Staff: 74
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Students: 616
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