Events
Sustainability events are happening year-round at UofL! Don't miss out!
All UofL Sustainability events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. What did I miss?! Check out our Past Events log.
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| May 1-31, 2025 |
Bike Month Challenge: Ride 5 May 1st – 31st, 2025 May is perfect for pedaling! Saddle up and ride for Team UofL in the Bike Month Challenge! Your challenge is simple: ride 5 miles this May! Once you've ridden your 5 miles, you can then choose your next challenge - ride further, more often, or for transportation - you're free to create your own adventure! Reap the rewards of a healthy lifestyle, show your support for sustainable transportation, and help improve cycling in your community. Register for the Bike Month Challenge as an individual to be entered to win fabulous national prizes like:
Get Healthy Now monthly premium incentive program participants can earn 200 points toward their 2026 $40 GHN monthly incentive for participating in the Bike Month Challenge! |
| 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. |
| May 5 - Aug. 14, 2025 |
Summer Garden Gatherings 2025 Mondays, 7pm at the Urban & Public Affairs Garden (426 W. Bloom St., behind Bettie Johnson Hall)Thursdays, noon at the Garden Commons (northeast of the Baptist Center) 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 summer 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. |
| May 13, 2025 |
 Trager Microforest Opening CelebrationTuesday, May 13th, 11am-1pm, Founder’s Square (501 W Muhammad Ali Blvd) UofL’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute invites you to join the Trager Microforest Opening Celebration! Mayor Craig Greenberg will offer remarks at 11:30 am. The celebration will feature: Ramiro's Cantina Food Truck, music, tree giveaways to the first 50 guests, "Ask a Scientist" tables, and fun activities for kids. As part of the Envirome Institute’s New Vision of Health Campus the Trager MicroForest Project is intensely planting Founders Square located in the heart of downtown Louisville. This location offers a unique opportunity to reimagine urban greening and measure its impact on human health and the environment, moving us towards a model for cities that focus on fostering health and happiness. Current research on the site includes study of the micro-climate as it relates to urban heat islands, urban greening and stress reduction, biodiversity and the microbiome of the square, soil health and more. This project will create an engaging green space that serves residents, attracts visitors and adds to the vitality of downtown. This event will take place rain or shine. |
| May 16, 2025 |
Bike to Work Day 2025 Friday, May 16th, Register here The UofL Sustainability Council urges everyone to celebrate Bike to Work Day with Bike Louisville! Grab your bike and join in the fun at any of our meet & ride locations where seasoned ride captains will lead group rides downtown, finishing at The Plaza on 4th (222 South 4th St) for coffee, donuts, and raffle prizes. Rides headed to downtown will depart at 7:30am from: Meet back at The Plaza on 4th (222 South 4th St) at 5:30pm for return rides. More information here. Register here. |
| May 16, 2025 |
2025 Pathways Leadership Conference Friday, May 16th, 10am-3pm, online - register here. This transformative event is focused on empowering you in leadership with the tools and resources to support both your employee and personal wellbeing. Open to all employees, this conference will feature a variety of sessions, each designed to delve into and enhance different dimensions of wellness, ensuring that participants walk away with practical insights and strategies to thrive personally & professionally. True leadership starts from within. In this engaging and reflective conference, we’ll take a deep dive into the 9 Dimensions of Wellness—a holistic framework that empowers you to live and lead with intention, balance, and resilience. You’ll explore how each dimension—Emotional, Physical, Social, Intellectual, Spiritual, Financial, Occupational, Environmental, and Cultural—contributes to your overall wellbeing and success. Through guided exercises and discussion, you’ll gain insights into your current wellness state and identify small, impactful shifts that can create big results in both your personal and professional life. UofL's Sustainability Council will be hosting the session focused on Environmental Wellness, with Patty Payette and Savannah Dowell, entitled "Your Plate, Your Planet: Eating for Wellness and Sustainability." Join us to explore the power of eating locally and embracing foods that are "close to the earth." Learn how our food sources, choices in the kitchen, and consumption habits impact us, our community and the environment — and how choosing seasonal, local, and minimally processed foods can support sustainability, health, and community. Through practical tips, personal stories, and actionable strategies, this session will inspire you to make mindful choices, connect with local food systems--even those right here on campus! Discover how small shifts in what and how we eat can lead to big changes for us and for the planet. Register here. |
| May 19, 2025 |
Serviceberry Foraging Workshop Monday, May 19th, 1pm, Garden Commons (NE corner of Baptist Center),  Add to your CalendarBring a pail or Tupperware and get ready to load up on the sweetest "secret" right under our noses! Serviceberries (aka Juneberries) are native to Kentucky (and 48 states!). They are planted all over the city as a common, low-maintenance street tree. The fruits are ripe for only two weeks around June 1st. They are similar to blueberries but a little bit nutty (the trees are in the almond family!). UofL's campus boasts many loaded serviceberries and during this special workshop, we will walk around to visit many of them! Pick and take home as many as you can. Enjoy them fresh or freeze them for pies and smoothies year-round! Meetup at the Garden Commons and we'll go from there. For inspiration, read Robin Wall Kimmerer's deeply insightful essay, The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance. Facebook Event. |
| May 31, 2025 |
Pop-Up Drop-Off Community Recycling Event Saturday, May 31st, 10am-2pm, UofL Shelby Campus Pop-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.This event sponsored by: Department of Public Works and Assets and the Louisville/Jefferson County Waste Management District. More info. |
| June 5 - Sept. 25, 2025 |
Gray Street Farmers Market Thursdays, June 5th – Sept 25th, 10:30am‒1:30pm, 400 E. Gray St. With many unique local vendors and food trucks, you'll find the finest in farm-fresh products, including locally grown produce, honey, jams, pickles, granola, baked goods, desserts, crafts, grab-and-go lunch items, and more. Cash, debit cards, SNAP benefits, and Senior Vouchers accepted! Open rain or shine, lunch-time on Thursdays, June 5 - Sept. 25, 2025. The market is operated by UofL's School of Public Health and Information Sciences in partnership with Catholic Charities’ Common Earth Gardens. Access our collection of delicious recipes for local products. The market is designed to increase access to fresh healthy food and offers several programs:
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| July 23 - 27, 2025 |
The 45th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking Wednesday, July 23rd - Sunday, July 27th, Davidson Hall, Registration required.  The world is swiftly changing, and with each day the pace quickens. The pressure to respond intensifies. The problems we now face, and will increasingly face, require a radically different form of thinking that is more complex, more adaptable, and more sensitive to divergent points of view than traditional thought outfitted for routine and automation. The world now requires that we continually relearn, rethink our decisions, and reevaluate how we work and live. In short, the power of the mind to command itself – to regularly engage in self-analysis and self-evaluation – increasingly determines the quality of our work, learning, and lives. Join us for the world's longest-running critical thinking conference, led by world-renowned experts on the Paul-Elder Approach to Critical Thinking – to date the most comprehensive and robust framework for the analysis, assessment, and improvement of human reasoning ever created. We learn critical thinking by practicing it. Therefore, look forward to dynamic interactions at the conference as you work the ideas of critical thinking into your reasoning framework through discussion and activities. Expect rich interactive sessions filled with stimulating dialogue and exercises, as well as concepts and tools you can immediately apply to your work, life, learning, and teaching. See testimonials for more on what to expect. Brought to you by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. Register here. |
| Aug. 25, 2025 |
HRTalks Wellness: Move Sustainably Monday, Aug. 25th, 1-2pm, Microsoft Teams Get Healthy Now and UofL's Sustainability Council will be teaming up to offer this session to support your efforts to shift gears and think outside the car this fall! We'll be sharing tips for moving about our city more sustainably, including walking, biking, transit, and carpooling; and we'll be encouraging you to get involved in the Cards Commuter Challenge and Cycle September to stay motivated, encourage your friends and colleagues, and compete for fantastic prizes! Finals details and registration TBA here. |
| Oct. 16-18, 2025 |
Ohio River Basin Confluence October 16-18, 2025 at the Kentucky International Convention Center Make plans to join us at the annual meeting of the Ohio River Basin Alliance. This year we are partnering with the Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville, the Kentucky Waterways Alliance, and the Ohio River Way to present: “The Ohio River Basin Confluence,” a special joint summit on clean water, healthy ecosystems, river recreation, and thriving communities. The summit will be held in Louisville, Kentucky at the Kentucky International Convention Center this October 16-18. This unique and collaborative effort is an opportunity to learn more about our partners and is representative of the momentum in the basin. The summit will bring together academics, government officials, non-profits, NGOs, and the general public to promote celebration, protection, and restoration of the Ohio River Basin. |
| Nov. 15, 2025 |
Pop-Up Drop-Off Community Recycling Event Saturday, Nov. 15th, 10am-2pm, UofL Shelby Campus Pop-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.This event sponsored by: Department of Public Works and Assets and the Louisville/Jefferson County Waste Management District.More info. |
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