Events — UofL Sustainability

Events

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

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Date	Event
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.
Jan. 13, 2025	Maple Tapping Workshop! Monday, Jan. 13th, 1pm, Meetup at the Garden Commons, Add to your Calendar Join us in UofL's sustainable Garden Commons next to the Baptist Center to learn about the process of tapping maple trees and making maple syrup! Our workshop leader, Dave Barker, has been tapping trees and making his own syrup in Louisville for years. He will give a brief, hands-on workshop on the process and then attendees will get to work with him as we install taps on our own maple trees around campus. Participants will have the opportunity to sign-up to volunteer to empty buckets as they fill throughout the coming weeks. Please dress warmly so we can work outside. This is part of the spring series of Garden Workshops hosted by the Garden Commons, a shared, collectively-managed space, open to participation any time from students, staff, faculty, and community members. Everyone who comes is welcome to share in the harvest! Facebook Event.
Jan. 14, 2025	Global Humanities Lecture with C. Riley Snorton (UChicago): Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism RESCHEDULED FOR: Tuesday, Jan. 14th, 4pm, Ekstrom Library Chao Auditorium, Add to your Calendar 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.
Jan. 16 - April 24, 2025	Spring Garden Gatherings Mondays, 1pm at the Garden Commons (northeast of the Baptist Center) Thursdays, 5pm at the Urban & Public Affairs Garden & Greenhouse (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 spring semester to harvest, weed, water & plant. Monthly hands-on Garden Workshops will also be offered at these times. Tools and gloves provided. Everyone who comes is welcome to share in the harvest! Connect with us and get all the details on Facebook or Instagram. Facebook Event.
Jan. 16, 2025	Sustainability-themed UofL Women's Basketball Game Thursday, Jan. 16th, 7pm, Yum! Center - Get tickets here. (Add to Calendar) Join us for a special night of greener sports, brought to you by Canon, as the Cards host ACC rivals Syracuse University. Fans will learn about UofL's extensive sustainability initiatives and have a chance to donate used sports equipment to kids in need at the West End School. Look for the UofL Sustainability table and donation bins in the lobby. UofL is a proud member of the ACC Sports Sustainability Team!
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.
Jan. 31, 2025	EcoReps Lunch & Learn Workshop: Topic TBA Friday, Jan. 31st, Noon-1pm, BAB 206 OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 424 899 605 #) Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! 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.
Feb. 1, 2025	Louisville Beekeeping and Research Conference Saturday, Feb. 1st, 8am-8pm, Founders Union, Shelby Campus (450 N Whittington Pkwy) This year's theme is Hive Tech: Utilizing Technology to Enhance Beekeeping Outcomes. As technology advances in all aspects of our lives, the tools we use in managing bees has also been progressing. From what we now consider classic beekeeeping technologies, like the Langstroth hive, to new innovations, including vaporizers, grafting, and hive maintenance apps, beekeepers alike rely on technology to ensure the survival of their apiaries. Your conference host, Apis Rescue, aims to equip beekeepers with the necessary tools for successful beekeeping bringing these technologies to you in our 2025 Louisville Beekeeping and Research Conference. While the conference is geared towards intermediate and advanced beekeepers, as well as honeybee researchers, even beginner beekeepers can benefit from the extensive talks by top names in the industry. Attending the conference gives you the opportunity to witness some of the best beekeeping content in the United States, presented in Intermediate, Advanced, and Research tracks. The Research track focuses on the latest discoveries and how they can be applied in beekeeping. Learn more and register here.
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.
Feb. 28, 2025	EcoReps Lunch & Learn Workshop: Topic TBA Friday, Feb. 28th, Noon-1pm, BAB 206 OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 424 899 605 #) Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! 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.
March 28, 2025	EcoReps Lunch & Learn Workshop: Topic TBA Friday, March 28th, Noon-1pm, BAB 206 OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 424 899 605 #) Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! 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.
April 18, 2025	EcoReps Lunch & Learn Workshop: UofL Maple Syrup & Honey Pancake Party! Friday, April 18th, Noon-1pm, BAB 206 (Add to your Calendar) OR Join Microsoft Teams Meeting, or join by phone at 502-792-9582 (Conference ID: 424 899 605 #) Join us for our monthly EcoReps workshop featuring locals making a difference in sustainability and a free vegetarian lunch! We'll wrap up the year with our annual celebration of our sweet sustainability harvests on campus, as we sample some of this year's maple syrup and honey harvests! Come enjoy some pancakes with our very own local sweetness. All are welcome. You'll also learn about tapping UofL maple trees to make syrup and raising honeybees on campus! 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.