Events — UofL Sustainability

Events

Sustainability events are happening year-round at UofL! Don't miss out!

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Date	Event
Aug. 19 - Nov. 25, 2024	Fall Garden Gatherings Mondays, 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.
Nov. 22, 2024	EcoReps Lunch & Learn: Sustainability 101 Student Presentations 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: 400 100 53#) 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 Calendar The 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 .
Every Sunday	UofL Community Composting Volunteer Days Every 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.
Nov. 25, 2024	Campus Cleanup Litter Pickup Monday, Nov. 25th, 4pm, Red Barn Clean4Cards invites everyone to join us! We will meet outside of the Red Barn and then walk around campus to collect litter using trash grabbers. Gloves and trash bags are provided as well. Please dress for the weather and join our GroupMe in case of any updates or cancellations. RSVP on Engage.
Jan. 20, 2025	MLK Day of Service Monday, Jan. 20th, 10am-1:30pm, SAC MPR, Add to your Calendar ELSB's MLK Day of Service is one of UofL's largest campus-wide service events of the year. The purpose of the event is to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and serve the community that UofL calls home. We hope to allow students to connect with each other, the UofL community, and the larger Louisville community. We hope you will come out and join us to better the community we call home. Sign-in at the SAC MPR, pick a service site, and you'll be off to volunteer. It's that easy! Volunteers are encouraged to wear clothing appropriate for service and winter, so closed toed-shoes, long sleeves, and something that you're not afraid to potentially get dirty. UofL's Sustainability Council will be hosting multiple service sites, including the UofL Free Store, Urban & Public Affairs Garden, and Community Composting Project. RSVP on Engage.
Mid-Jan. 20205	Global Humanities Lecture with C. Riley Snorton (UChicago): Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism RESCHEDULED FOR MID-JANUARY: DETAILS TBA 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. 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, 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. 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.
Feb. 20, 2025	Gender, Equity & Climate Justice Conference 2025 Thursday, Feb. 20th, 10am-2:30pm, Microsoft Teams, Add to your Calendar Join us for UofL's second annual Gender, Equity, & Climate Justice Conference, taking place virtually on Microsoft Teams. Speakers and topics TBA, but may include: gender equity leadership in Louisville, climate justice, menstrual equity, human trafficking in the Latinx community, disability justice, and reproductive justice. The conference is organized by UofL's Women's Center, in partnership with Louisville Metro Office for Women, UofL Sustainability, Sister Song of Kentucky and United Nations Association – Women at UofL. Details and registration TBA. Contact: Jamieca Jones.