Sustainability Spotlight November 2013
Campus Sustainability Week Wrap-Up Campus Sustainability Week was a Success! During the week of October 21st, KU celebrated Campus Sustainability Week. We celebrated with everyone from faculty and staff to students and community members, at table events, a biker’s breakfast, a sustainability symposium and a food drive, among other events. The week was an opportunity to reach out to the KU community and start a conversation about what we’re doing to achieve sustainability, and where we’re going from here. Below are a few pictures from throughout the week.
Center for Sustainability staff talked with students on Wescoe Beach about our Rock Chalk Recycle Initiative
On Tuesday anyone biking to campus was invited
Attendees of the Sustainability Symposium listen to a
to bike by and grab breakfast and coffee, and sign a
presentation by Uma Outka, Associate Professor, KU
pledge for bicycle commuting
School of Law
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Sustainability Spotlight November 2013
Thank you for helping KU Fight Hunger Thank you so much for helping to make the KU Fights Hunger events in October a success! The goals of our organization are to raise awareness about hunger issues and to take action to help those in need. To meet those goals, we planned three awareness events and held a campus wide food drive. Your help made these events a great success, especially the food drive. KU staff, faculty, students and even some visitors donated: 3,000 lbs. of food $3,430 on the Just Food website $186 by rounding up $1 on purchases at the KU Bookstore $894 at the showing of the "A Place at the Table" documentary
The $4,510 donated will enable Just Food, the Douglas County food bank, to purchase 22,550 lbs. of food (each $1 buys five lbs.). The food and money you and your fellow Jayhawks donated can provide one meal for over 22,000 people! That will be a great help to our hungry friends and neighbors in Douglas County.
Are you interested in becoming a Sustainability Ambassador, or know someone in your department who may be? Visit the Center for Sustainability website or email sustainability@ku.edu for more information. Soon, KU Fights Hunger will begin planning several spring events. If you would like to be involved in the planning, or if you have suggestions or ideas to share, please email kufightshunger@ku.edu. Please also email us if you are aware of other hunger related activities on campus. We would like to help promote those activities through Facebook and Twitter.
To stay informed on campus hunger events: Reply to this email and ask to be added to a KU Fights Hunger Supporters email list to receive occasional (about once a month) updates Like KU Fights Hunger on Facebook
Please feel free to print and post the attached flyer to inform others about the success of the campus food drive. Thank you again for helping those
Follow @kufightshunger on Twitter
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in need in Douglas County!
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Sustainability Spotlight November 2013
Calling all planners, leaders, ambassadors... Do you want to be part of a sustainability event at KU? We are looking for faculty, staff and students to plan KU Earth Day 2014. This will be a weeklong series of campus wide events organized to celebrate the 44th Earth Day.
If you are interested in being a part of the planning committee, contact us at sustainability@ku.edu.
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Sustainability Spotlight November 2013
Variety of Events Surround red, black & GREEN: a blues red, black & GREEN: a blues A hybrid-theatre production about race, class, culture and the environment Saturday, November 9, 7:30 p.m. Lied Center
red, black & GREEN: a blues is a visceral, interactive and moving work that employs spoken-word poetry, storytelling, music, dance and movement to bring the stories and voices of black America into the center of a conversation about race, class, culture and the environment. In performances ranging from deeply sad to hilariously funny, new and inspiring definitions of sustainability emerge from tales of survival and the complex beauty and struggle of human interdependence. This poignant line from the script sums up the issues explored in the production: "I ask a mother about environment, and she tells me of guns, of emotionally disabled boys whose green movement consists of recycling the sorry narrative of black-on-black crime." Visit the Lied Center site to attend the performance.
Free Additional Activities Sustainability Expo Saturday, Nov. 9, 6-7 p.m. Lied Center
Salvaged Art Project
In conjunction with the performance of red, black & GREEN: a blues the Lied Center and KU Center for Sustainability will be hosting a Sustainability Expo featuring business, clubs and organizations that have programs relating to sustainability issues.
University of Kansas students are building and creating a sculptural piece of art work from salvaged materials. Perks for participating in this project include:
Meeting with Mark Bamuthi Joseph, the artistic director and creator of red, black & GREEN: a blues. A sneak peek of the set for red, black & GREEN: a blues, created by Theaster Gates. Tickets to red, black & GREEN: a blues Visit the Lied Center website for more information on all events.
The University of Kansas prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, ancestry, disability, status as a veteran, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, gender identity, gender expression and genetic information in the University’s programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, IOA@ku.edu, 1246 West Campus Road, Room 153A, Lawrence, KS 66045, (785) 864-6414, 711 TTY.
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KU RECYCLING SORTING GUIDELINES November 2013 KU Recycling collects the following materials at most locations.
OFFICE PAK
ALUMINUM CANS
Includes: White Paper Pastel Colored Paper Brochures Stapled Books Envelopes Manila File Folders Junk Mail Greeting Cards Heavy Weight Paper
Does Not Include: Newsprint Cardboard or Chipboard Paper or Styrofoam Cups Napkins of Tissues Food Contaminated Paper Magazines or Glossy Paper Books with Glued Binding Paper Bags
Includes: Aluminum cans ONLY
Steel or Tin Cans
STEEL CANS Includes: Steel (tin) cans ONLY
NEWSPAPER Includes: All Newsprint
Does Not Include: Magazines or Glossy Paper Phone Books or Catalogs
CORRUGATED CARDBOARD Includes: Corrugated Cardboard Boxes Corrugated Packaging
Does Not Include: Soiled Pizza Boxes Waxy Cardboard Any boxes that have food contamination
CHIPBOARD Includes: Other Paperboard Packaging
Does Not Include: Corrugated Cardboard
MAGAZINES Includes: Magazines Glossy Paper
Does Not Include: Aluminum Cans Bottles of any kind Sheet or Scrap Metal
TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES & CATALOGS Includes campus and municipal phone books and catalogs with similar construction (heavy-weight cover with newspaper-like pages)
Mixed Paper Grades of paper not listed above, including journals, hard-back books and glue-bound books should be recycled separately from other materials.
Shredded Paper Does Not Include: Junk Mail Phone Directories
#1— #7 PLASTICS Any #1-#7 plastic (salad bar take-out, plastic packaging etc)
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Does Not Include: Foil Food Wrappers
Bags of shredded paper should be tied shut to close bag completely. Do not put shredded overheads or any other type of plastics in with the shredded office pak. DO NOT put shredded paper in, or stack on top of or next to the regular recycling bins. Instead, contact KU Recycling for a special collection.
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