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| Aug. 26 - Sept. 30, 2024 |
 Cards Commuter Challenge 2024August 26 - September 30, 2024. University-wide UofL wants you to save money, burn calories, put an end to pollution, and win prizes…all by simply choosing to get to campus in a new way! Record your trips on Cardinal Directions throughout the Cards Commuter Challenge (August 26 - September 30) and each week you'll have the chance to win one of the $50 weekly prizes or the $250 Grand Prize! Any trip by means other than driving alone increases your chances of winning! Step 1: Join the Challenge online!
Step 2: Challenge yourself (and your friends!) to get to campus differently!
* NOTE: Though certainly better than driving, getting around via lazy, coal-powered electric scooters does not qualify for this Challenge. Skip the dirty electricity and use your muscles to qualify! Explore all of UofL's Sustainable Transportation Options Connect with us, trash-talk, and post about your commute on social media @UofLSustainable.
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| Sept. 1-30, 2024 |
 Cycle September 2024 September 1-30, 2024 UofL’s Sustainability Council and Get Healthy Now encourage you to saddle up and ride for Team UofL during Cycle September - The Global Bike Challenge! Reap the rewards of a healthy lifestyle and show your support for sustainable transportation. Register for Cycle September as an individual to be entered to win fabulous national prizes like: 
Join Team UofL on Strava to log your rides and encourage/compete against your peers for the UofL Grand Prize. Simply log your trips by bicycle for fun, fitness, or transportation from September 1-30, 2024. Your miles, days cycled, and bike commutes will all qualify you for the grand prize of a $200 voucher to a local bike shop! Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to compete. Get Healthy Now monthly premium incentive program participants can earn 200 points toward their 2025 $40 GHN monthly incentive for participating in the Bike Month Challenge! Check out our online resources for UofL Bicyclists - with handy maps, videos, and tips for getting around town care-free and car-free! And be sure to join us for our Cycle September events to get you engaged in the Challenge:
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| Sept. 27, 2024 |
EcoReps Lunch & Learn: Waterfront Botanical Gardens Friday, Sept. 27th, noon, BAB 206 (  Add to your Calendar)OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 135 251 995#)  Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! We continue the fall series with a focus on sustainability efforts taking place at the Waterfront Botanical Gardens! Located at 1435 Frankfort Avenue, on the site of a former city landfill, Waterfront Botanical Gardens was started by Botanica, an umbrella organization for the local gardening community started in 1993 to help enlighten, entertain, and educate the community about the botanical world. In 2001, Botanica learned that it was the beneficiary of a trust established by member Helen Harrigan, a local gardener with a desire to see a botanical garden and conservatory built in Louisville. Helen’s gift reshaped the focus of this organization, and they set about to create what has become Louisville’s Waterfront Botanical Gardens. The organization's vision is "Planting seeds and growing minds for more sustainable cities." The mission is "To cultivate urban botanical gardens that educate, inspire, and enhance appreciation of the relationship between plant life and a healthy environment."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. More info on EcoReps website. Facebook Event. |
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 UofL Community Composting Volunteer DaysEvery Sunday, Noon-2pm (  Add to your Calendar)250 E. Bloom St. (block north of Cardinal Blvd. between Brook & Floyd Streets, map) 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 are welcome to haul home some rich UofL compost for gardening projects in your own containers/vehicle. This is a weekly service opportunity throughout the year. Contact: Brian Barnes, 502-338-1338. |
| Aug. 19 - Nov. 25, 2024 |
 Fall Garden GatheringsMondays, 11am at the Garden Commons (northeast of the Baptist Center) Thursdays, 4pm at the Urban & Public Affairs Garden (426 W. Bloom St., behind Bettie Johnson Hall) UofL’s organic campus gardens are great places to relax, reconnect, learn, and savor the sweet taste of sustainability! Students, faculty, staff, and the public are all welcome to come experience the thrill of turning tiny seeds into an abundance of hyper-local veggies, herbs, fruit & flowers. Stop by anytime to sample the goodness and help us keep things watered and weeded. We will gather weekly at both of our campus food gardens throughout the fall to harvest, weed, water & plant. Tools and gloves provided, but bring bags to harvest into! Everyone who comes is welcome to share in the harvest! Connect with us and get all the details on Facebook or Instagram. Facebook Event. |
| Oct. 8, 2024 |
 Chips, Dips, and Ballot TipsTuesday, Oct. 8th, 2-3pm, Cultural & Equity Center MPR The Engage. Lead. Serve. Board invites you to learn who's on the ballot in November while you enjoy some chips and dip! See sample ballots, find your polling location, and hear about candidates! RSVP on Engage. |
| Oct. 10, 2024 |
Climate change, human health, and building an equitable sustainable future a free public talk by Gwen Robbins Schug (UNC Greensboro) Thursday, Oct. 10th, 6pm, UofL Center for Archaeology & Cultural Heritage (CACHe), 1606 Rowan St.  Earth’s mean annual surface temperature has increased by 1.3 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial average. We know that over the next 75 years, without an immediate and dramatic change in behavior, we will see an increase of 3-8 degrees C, levels not seen in the time since humans first evolved. The risks for human societies from this magnitude of warming are complex, with interacting hazards that are potentially amplified by our response. Historical sciences can speak to these uncertainties about how it will affect our societies and our health. In this talk, Dr. Gwen Robbins Schug will describe archaeological perspectives on human health and well-being during periods of rapid climate change over the past 10,000 years. She will focus on the historical and socio-cultural factors that promoted resilience and those that were associated with high levels of violence, infectious disease spillover, and starvation. Ultimately, Dr. Robbins Schug proposes that discussions of human health may be one of the greatest opportunities for motivating the urgent, transformative, and sustained actions we now require to achieve a fair, equitable, sustainable future on Earth. Dr. Gwen Robbins Schug is a bioarchaeologist and Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. This event is presented by the Kentucky Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with support from the University of Louisville Department of Anthropology. |
| Oct. 14, 2024 |
Global Humanities Lecture with C. Riley Snorton (UChicago): Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism Monday, Oct. 14th, 4pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium, Add to your Calendar
In this talk, Professor Snorton will juxtapose three swamp narratives—the Wild Man of the Green Swamp, the Honey Island Swamp monster, and the Amazonian plant-spirits to discuss how swamps confound common sense notions of difference, especially in terms of racial and gender categorization. Ending with a meditation on the Brazilian film, C. Riley Snorton is the Mary R. Morton Professor in the departments of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity and English at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender and in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017) and Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (2014). This Global Humanities Lecture is presented in partnership with: Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, Department of Comparative Humanities, Department of English, Hite Institute of Art & Design, LGBT Center, Department of Pan-African Studies, and the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. |
| Oct. 16, 2024 |
New Directions Housing Corporation Family Scholar House Parkland Campus Parkland Plaza American Red Cross Supply Prep Community Kitchen | Dare to Care |
| Oct. 17-23 |
UofL Sustainability Week - Oct. 17-23, 2024 A full week of events to celebrate, raise awareness, and engage your passions for environmental, social & economic justice! Full schedule TBA, but events will include:
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| Oct. 17-18, 2024 |
Kentucky Composting Conference: Sustainability and the Art of Composting Thursday-Friday, Oct. 17-18th, 8am-4pm, Humanities 300, Add to your CalendarRegistration Required - $35 or $10 Students (scholarships available - contact Keith McKenzie) Join us to learn best practices for composting and composting certifications. Come learn about compost quality, soil health, and more! Farmers, ranchers, and others interested will learn about marketing, compost quality, and more! Our keynote speaker will be Jean Bonhotal, Director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute. For scholarships contact Keith McKenzie at Keith.mckenzie1@aol.com. Facebook Event. This is a UofL Sustainability Week event! 
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| Oct. 17, 2024 |
 Climate Change is Spooky Trivia NightThursday, Oct. 17th, 7-9pm, Red Barn The Student Sustainability Coalition invites you to a fun-filled evening of trivia, costumes, prizes, food, and more! Teams can compete for hauntingly good prizes! There will be a costume contest and six rounds of trivia on: Louisville, Halloween, and Climate Change. Doors open at 6pm, trivia starts at 7pm. Grab your costume and come out to our annual Halloween Trivia Night. Purchase your tickets in advance to save; they're $8 per person when purchased individually and $5 a person when you register as a team! To purchase your ticket(s), Venmo @TheUofLSSC with your full name(s) as the message. Please reach out to Mo Early (mrearl03@louisville.edu) with questions and concerns. RSVP on Engage. This is a zero-waste event.This is a UofL Sustainability Week event! |
| Oct. 18, 2024 |
 Sustainability Coffee HourFriday, Oct. 18th, 2-3pm, Old Louisville Coffee Co-op (316 W Ormsby Ave), Add to your CalendarThe Student Sustainability Coalition provides networking and mentorship in sustainability while promoting sustainable practices & holding the administration accountable! Join us at the Old Louisville Coffee Co-op to chat, work, study, and discuss sustainability on third Fridays this fall from 9/20/2024 until 11/22/2024. Follow on Engage or  . This is a UofL Sustainability Week event!
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| Oct. 19, 2024 |
Pop-Up Drop-Off Community Recycling Event Saturday, Oct. 19th, 10am-2pm, UofL Shelby Campus (440 N Whittington Pkwy), Add to your CalendarPop-Up Drop-Offs are free recycling and large item disposal events for residents of Jefferson County.
Items must already be separated into categories for easy off-loading so as much can be recycled as possible.Not Accepted:
This is a UofL Sustainability Week event! |
| Oct. 23, 2024 |
17th Annual Campus Sustainability Day Fair Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, 10am-2pm, Humanities Quad, Add to your Calendar Stop by the Humanities Quad for the 17th annual celebration of all things sustainable at UofL and in our community! Learn what campus and community groups are doing to create a sustainable revolution. Sign-up to get involved and leave with some green freebies, great information, and a smile on your face!
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| Oct. 25, 2024 |
EcoReps Lunch & Learn: Sustainability 101 Student Presentations Friday, Oct. 25th, noon, BAB 206 ( Add to your Calendar)OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 135 251 995#)  Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! We continue the fall series with a focus on student action for sustainability! This semester, instructor Robin Frederick is having her Introduction to Sustainability students get trained to become EcoReps and they will be presenting on their work.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. More info on EcoReps website. Facebook Event. |
| Nov. 6, 2024 |
 Post-Election PUMPKIN SMASH!!Wednesday, Nov. 6th, noon, SAC Ramp, Add to your CalendarDon’t know what to do with your old pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns from Halloween? Don’t trash them! Turn them into stress-relief, worm food, and organic fertilizer! UofL is here to help you compost! Drop off your old pumpkins (and other plant-based fall decorations) in front of the Red Barn by the pumpkin composting sign any time from November 1st through noon on November 6th. At that time, all are invited to our annual Pumpkin Smash from the SAC Ramp! See video of a past Smash! Join us for composting fun and stress relief on the day after the Presidential Election! Facebook Event. |
| Nov. 22, 2024 |
EcoReps Lunch & Learn: Sustainability 101 Student Presentations, Part 2 Friday, Nov. 22nd, noon, BAB 206 ( Add to your Calendar)OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 135 251 995#) Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! We conclude the fall series with a focus on student action for sustainability! This semester, instructor Robin Frederick is having her Introduction to Sustainability students get trained to become EcoReps and they will be presenting on their work.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. More info on EcoReps website. Facebook Event. |
| Nov. 22, 2024 |
Sustainability Coffee Hour Friday, Nov. 22nd, 2-3pm, Old Louisville Coffee Co-op (316 W Ormsby Ave), Add to your CalendarThe Student Sustainability Coalition provides networking and mentorship in sustainability while promoting sustainable practices & holding the administration accountable! Join us at the Old Louisville Coffee Co-op to chat, work, study, and discuss sustainability on third Fridays this fall from 9/20/2024 until 11/22/2024. Follow on Engage or . |
| Feb. 20, 2025 |
Gender, Equity & Climate Justice Conference 2025 Thursday, Feb. 20th, 10am-2:30pm, Microsoft Teams, Add to your Calendar
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Narratives about swamp people and swamp things punctuate the story of the New World, from the maroon communities constituted by Native peoples and formerly enslaved Africans dating back at least to the early sixteenth century to the first Asian settlement in the US, located in swamps surrounding present day New Orleans in the eighteenth century. As a nonbinary space that is neither land nor water but both, the swamp serves as the material grounds—as the “terra infirma”—for a series of considerations about transformation and difference. Drawn from Professor C. Riley Snorton's new work, Mud: Ecologies of Racial Meaning, this lecture weaves together the insights of Black ecologies and trans studies through a nonbinary analytic to raise questions about the coloniality of climate (change) and being.
Uyra: The Rising Forest, this talk also highlights how Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists are redefining the terms of their difference. 
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