Events
Sustainability events are happening year-round at UofL! Don't miss out!
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| Jan. 8 - Apr. 19, 2019 |  UofL Free StoreTuesday-Thursday 11am-1pm, and Fridays 2-5pm, Unitas Tower basement UofL’s Free Store is open Tuesday-Thursday 11am-1pm, and Fridays 2-5pm throughout the spring in the Unitas Tower basement (enter from driveway off Cardinal Blvd). All students & employees are welcome to "shop" for free clothing, shoes, household items, books, school & art supplies, non-perishable food, etc. Donations are accepted any time in the red bins outside the Store. Help us keep useful stuff out of the landfill while helping those in need – Volunteers are needed each week to open the store and sort donations. UofL promotes an inclusive environment for all, regardless of gender identity and/or gender expression. The Free Store is a Transgender-Friendly space. The Free Store is closed whenever the university is not in session. Follow on Instagram or  To volunteer, contact UofL's Zero Waste Intern: Razija Mehinović (502-974-1843, razija.mehinovic@louisville.edu). |
| March 20, 2019 |  Opportunity Zones Will Do More Damage than Urban RenewalUPA Spring 2019 Lecture Series: Cassia Herron, Community advocate/activist/planner Wednesday, March 20th at 7pm at Launch Louisville (816 & 822 East Broadway) Free registration encouraged UofL's department of Urban & Public Affairs invites you to join us for the spring lecture series, Urban Oppositions. March 20th will feature a wonderful discussion with Cassia Herron, advocate, activist, and planner. Cassia will take the controversial position that Opportunity Zones will be more damaging to the city than Urban Renewal. All are welcome for the conversation, no matter your field or specialty! Urbanism is and has always been a transdisciplinary endeavor, and there is no better space that this in which to begin to engage in these discussions/debates. This series is designed to engage students, faculty, staff, and the public around issues of urbanization, sustainability, the just city, and what it all means for our home city of Louisville. These events are free and open to the public! Upcoming speakers include: • Representative Attica Scott: State Representative Attica Scott serves Kentucky House District 41 – Apr 3rd at 7pm |
| March 21, 2019 |  Recycling at UofLThursday, March 21st, 3pm, Ekstrom W104 UofL's Sustainability Coordinator, Justin Mog, and Kim Martinez from WestRock Recycling will answer all of your questions about what is and is not recyclable at UofL, and where it all goes when it leaves campus. The focus will be on UofL's single-stream system for recycling paper, cardboard, glass, cans, and plastic, but we'll touch on options for composting, recycling less common items, and donating for reuse. |
| March 22, 2019 |  Garden Commons Workshop: CompostingFriday, March 22nd, Noon, Garden Commons at the Cultural Center Join us in UofL's organic Garden Commons for a special workshop on composting and vermiculture with Dr. Brian Barnes! Brian directs UofL's Community Composting Project (just a couple blocks north of the Garden Commons) with volunteer-power every Sunday noon-2pm. He'll be sharing the basics of why, how, and what to compost and we will be creating DIY composting bins that you can take home with you to start your own compost! |
| March 22, 2019 | World Water Day: Taste the Tap Friday, March 22nd, 11:30am – 1:30pm, SAC Marketplace and HSC Kornhauser plaza simultaneously  UofL will participate in World Water Day with simultaneous events on both Belknap campus and the Health Sciences Center. In partnership with the Louisville Water Company, we will host a Taste the Tap event in which we challenge you to a blind taste test to compare Louisville's award-winning tap water with commercially available bottled waters. We want you to #TasteTheDifference and #DrinkLocal. Gain a new appreciation for the privileges of living in a place like Louisville with great, dependable tap water, and pick up a reusable bottle so you never have to waste money and generate trash with bottled water again!The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal #6 is crystal clear: water for all by 2030. By definition, this means leaving no one behind. But today, billions of people are still living without safe water – their households, schools, workplaces, farms and factories struggling to survive and thrive. Marginalized groups – women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, disabled people and many others – are often overlooked, and sometimes face discrimination, as they try to access and manage the safe water they need. This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind. |
| March 22, 2019 |  The Ecohydrology of Large Rivers and Implications for Harmful Algal BloomsFriday, March 22nd, 3pm, Lutz Hall 225 Join us on World Water Day for this special Geography Department seminar featuring Dr. Tamara Sluss, Director of UofL's Interdisciplinary Masters in Sustainability. Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) threaten our drinking water and recreation in the Ohio River and understanding the ecohydrology of these systems may allow us to prevent their establishment in our water supply. |
| Every Sunday |  UofL Community Composting Volunteer DayEvery Sunday, Noon-2pm 250 E. Bloom St. (one block north of Cardinal Blvd. between Brook & Floyd Streets - map here) Come help us turn “trash” into treasure as we manage UofL’s volunteer-powered community composting operation. Dress to get dirty. Tools provided. Learn about worm composting and becoming a UofL EcoRep! All participants will be welcome to haul back home some rich UofL compost for their own gardening projects in whatever containers/vehicles they bring. This is a weekly service opportunity throughout the year. Contact: Brian Barnes, 502-338-1338. |
| March 27, 2019 |  Who Gets to Drink? The Past and Future of Drinking WaterWednesday, March 27th, 6pm, Law School Room 275 The Spring 2019 Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy will be given by James Salzman, who is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the UCLA School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles. James is one of the world's preeminent authorities on drinking water policies and he will present "Who Gets to Drink? The Past and Future of Drinking Water." The Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy is supported by the Herbert Boehl Chair Funds, the Brandeis School of Law and the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility. |
| March 28, 2019 | Spring 2019 Campus Tree Advisory Committee Meeting Thursday, March 28th, 11am-12:30pm, Ekstrom Library room W210
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| March 29, 2019 | Sustainability Roundtable: Jonathan Freedman (Associate Director of UofL's Envirome Institute) Friday, March 29th, 11am-noon, Urban Studies Room 200 (426 W Bloom St)  Please join us for UofL's Sustainability Roundtable series on alternating Fridays at 11am! Our guest on March 29th will be Jonathan Freedman, Director of UofL's Envirome Institute, and a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. The format is a 30-40 minute presentation from a variety of speakers throughout the year, followed by 20-30 minute open discussion. Please feel free to bring your lunch! Anyone with an interest in sustainability can give talks at the speaker series and participate in the audience, including faculty, staff, students, practitioners, teachers, government officials, and members of the public. If you would like to give a presentation, or would like to hear a particular speaker, please contact Daniel DeCaro. |
| March 29, 2019 | EcoReps Lunch & Learn: Hart Hagan on the Green New Deal Friday, March 29nd at Noon, Ekstrom Library room W210 Join us for our monthly EcoReps Lunch & Learn workshop featuring a free vegetarian lunch and locals making a difference in sustainability! Our topic on March 29th will be the Green New Deal, a proposed economic stimulus program in the United States that aims to address both economic inequality and climate change. Supporters of a Green New Deal, like Hart and the youth-led Sunrise Movement, advocate for a combination of Roosevelt's economic approach with modern ideas such as renewable energy and resource efficiency. Hart Hagan is a long-time activist, organizer, and advocate for sustainable change. He is host of The Climate Report on Louisville's Forward Radio 106.5fm, and director of Wild Ones Louisville. The Sustainability Council’s EcoReps  program is designed to move students, faculty & staff beyond talk to action for a more sustainable UofL! We provide basic training & resources, service opportunities, and leadership positions as a point-person & peer-to-peer advocate for sustainability. This spring, we continue our series of in-person workshops each month on last Fridays at noon in Ekstrom Library room W210. Join us for lunch and bring your reusable plate, utensils, and cup to minimize waste! All are welcome. More info on EcoReps website. |
| Fridays, Jan. 11 - Apr. 19, 2019 |  Garden Commons Spring WorkdaysFridays, 2:30-3:30pm, Garden Commons at the Cultural Center Join us in UofL's organic garden and greenhouse for our group workdays! Learn (by doing) how to grow hyper-local, super-delicious vegetables, herbs, and fruits! Anyone can work in the garden any time, but we'll gather together every Friday throughout the spring semester (Jan. 11 - Apr. 19) from 2:30pm to 3:30pm to start and tend seeds in the greenhouse, plant, weed, water, and harvest. No prior experience necessary. Tools & gloves provided. The Garden Commons is open to participation any time from students, staff, faculty, and community members. Everyone who comes is welcome to share in the harvest! Connect with us and get all the details on our Facebook Page. |
| Feb. 1 - Mar. 30, 2019 |
Campus Conservation Nationals - February 1-21, 2019
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| April 3, 2019 | UofL Recycling Bin Hackathon Wednesday, April 3rd, 4pm-6pm, FirstBuild (333 East Brandeis) Do you care about recycling? Do you think the current campus containers are confusing? Want to work collaboratively to come up with new ideas? Join us for a two-hour fun co-creation experience, led by FirstBuild. Students, faculty, and staff from all corners of the university are welcome to join us for this free event! Pizza will be provided. Please RSVP so we can plan accordingly. |
| April 3, 2019 | UPA Spring 2019 Lecture Series: KY State Representative Attica Scott Wednesday, April 3rd at 7pm at Launch Louisville (816 & 822 East Broadway) UofL's department of Urban & Public Affairs invites you to join us for the spring lecture series, no matter your field or specialty! Urbanism is and has always been a transdisciplinary endeavor, and there is no better space that this in which to begin to engage in these discussions/debates. This series is designed to engage students, faculty, staff, and the public around issues of urbanization, sustainability, the just city, and what it all means for our home city of Louisville. Our guest on April 3rd will be State Representative Attica Scott, who serves Kentucky House District 41. These events are free and open to the public! |
| Apr. 5 & 8, 2019 |  UofL Arbor Day CelebrationFriday, April 5th, 11am-2pm, Belknap Campus Greek Row Monday, April 8th, 9am at HSC School of Dentistry April 5th is Arbor Day 2019 in Kentucky! Come help us restore Louisville's shrinking tree canopy. Join us for a celebration of UofL’s on-going commitment to trees and our status as a Tree Campus USA (for 9 years running!).
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| April 5, 2019 | Paint and Plant Monday, April 5th, 2-5pm, Red Barn This event will give students the opportunity to relax and connect with nature. Enjoy free snacks as you paint and decorate a pot, plant a starter herb/vegetable/flower, and take it home free of charge. This event is organized by the Graduate Network in A&S, which encourages all students from all disciplines to gather and network at social events like these. Our goal is to give students the chance to mingle with others outside of their own discipline and have a good time on campus. |
| April 9, 2019 | Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights Tuesday, April 9th, 1pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium Join us for a free public lecture by the 2019 UofL Grawemeyer Award winners for Ideas Improving World Order, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph. The team were named co-winners for the ideas set forth in their book, Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights. The work, published in 2015 by Oxford University Press, offers a method for gauging how well nations are providing basic human rights of food, health, education, housing, work and social well-being to their citizens and suggests how they can advance such rights even further. Fukuda-Parr is a professor in The New School’s Graduate Programs in International Affairs. Lawson-Remer was recently a fellow in Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Randolph is an associate professor emerita of economics at the University of Connecticut. The trio used the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights as a basis for their work, creating a new tool, the Social and Economic Rights Fulfillment Index, to measure nations’ progress toward human rights goals. Their book also sheds light on policies that advance human rights and explains how use of these policies and public pressure can lead to results. Although the authors noted there has been steady progress in social and economic rights fulfillment over the past 30 years, they found that disparities still exist in every region of the world. Their measurement tool is aimed at helping governments and other organizations address those disparities. In 2016, the book won the American Political Science Association’s Human Rights Section Best Book Award.  |
| April 12, 2019 | Sustainability Roundtable: Mary Ellen Wiederwohl (Chief of Louisville Forward, Metro Government) Friday, April 12th, 11am-noon, Urban Studies Room 200 (426 W Bloom St)  Please join us for UofL's Sustainability Roundtable series on alternating Fridays at 11am! Our guest on April 12th will be Chief of Louisville Forward for Metro Government,Mary Ellen Wiederwohl. The format is a 30-40 minute presentation from a variety of speakers throughout the year, followed by 20-30 minute open discussion. Please feel free to bring your lunch! Anyone with an interest in sustainability can give talks at the speaker series and participate in the audience, including faculty, staff, students, practitioners, teachers, government officials, and members of the public. If you would like to give a presentation, or would like to hear a particular speaker, please contact Daniel DeCaro. |
| Apr. 12, 2019 |  Climate Anxiety and Meditation WorkshopFriday, April 12th, Noon Garden Commons at the Cultural Center Join us in UofL's organic Garden Commonsfor a wellness workshop on climate anxiety. Do you feel extreme anxiety in the face of news about climate change and environmental disasters? Come learn tools for resiliency and be guided through a meditation created specifically for this purpose. Co-sponsored by the UofL Sustainability Council, Office of Health Promotion, and Get Healthy Now! |
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| Apr. 19, 2019 |  EcoReps Lunch & Learn: UofL Maple Tapping & Pancake Party!Friday, April 19th at Noon, Ekstrom Library room W210 Join us for our monthly EcoReps Lunch & Learn workshop featuring a free vegetarian lunch and locals making a difference in sustainability! We'll rap up the year on April 19th, with our annual celebration of making maple syrup by tapping UofL trees! Come enjoy some pancakes with our very own, hyper-local maple syrup while we talk trees. The Sustainability Council’s EcoRep s program is designed to move students, faculty & staff beyond talk to action for a more sustainable UofL! We provide basic training & resources, service opportunities, and leadership positions as a point-person & peer-to-peer advocate for sustainability. This spring, we continue our series of in-person workshops each month on last Fridays at noon in Ekstrom Library room W210. Join us for lunch and bring your reusable plate, utensils, and cup to minimize waste! All are welcome. More info on EcoReps website. |
| April 22, 2019 | Late Night Shred Fest! Monday, April 22nd, 8pm, SAC Ballroom Campus Housing will be honoring Earth Day with a fun incentive to recycle after all your spring classes are over! Satisfy your late-night cravings and power up for finals with a free breakfast bar. Bring old papers from the semester to shred and recycle them properly and you'll be entered into a raffle for fabulous prizes! You can earn a second raffle ticket just by coming in your pajamas. |
| May 16 - Oct. 31, 2019 |  Gray Street Farmers’ MarketThursdays, 10:30am‒1:30pm (May 16 to Oct. 31, 2019) Health Sciences Center, 400 E. Gray St. With 11 unique local vendors, you'll find the finest in farm-fresh local products, including fruits, vegetables, pasture-raised meat & eggs, popcorn, honey & syrup, jams, granola, bread & baked goods, flowers, plants, prepared lunches, food trucks, and more. Cash, debit cards, SNAP benefits, and Senior Vouchers accepted! Open weekly rain or shine. Watch Vendor Spotlights and our 20/20 Talks on food and sustainability at the GSFM YouTube Channel! Access our collection of delicious recipes for local products. Join our listserv and receive our weekly newsletter by sending an email to listserv@listserv.louisville.edu with the message “SUBSCRIBE GSFM (First_Name Last_Name)”. More info: GSFM website, contact Market Manager, Sara Frazier at farmersmarket@louisville.edu or 502-852-6655, or follow on . |
The Campus Tree Advisory Committee is open to all employees, students & community members interested in helping UofL protect & expand our tree population. We meet just once a semester. The agenda includes:
REDUCE & RECYCLE! Help the Cards to victory by avoiding disposables (bring your own mug, bottle, plate, etc.) and fully utilizing UofL’s amazingly easy, single-stream 
Bettie Johnson Hall
- 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:
J. Blaine Hudson African World Academy Presents
March 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., University Club and Alumni Center, Presidents Room; free, open to the public
Cheri Bryant Hamilton presents "A life of privilege, a sense of duty: Ruth Booker Bryant, Unsung heroine and the black 6" and "The environmental dream team: Basic facts and real impacts" with Eboni Cochran (REACT), Tom FitzGerald (KRC), and Lauren Heberle (UofL Sociology/CEPM).
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