Events set to celebrate Campus Sustainability Month
Held every October, Campus Sustainability Month is a celebration of sustainability in higher education in which campuses across the world engage and inspire campus community members to become sustainability change agents.
To celebrate, the med center is hosting a series of events and educational opportunities.
In addition, details are forthcoming about this year’s Sustainability Engagement Survey, so watch for the survey launch and take time to fill it out. Results from the survey will help the med center monitor and improve its campus sustainability efforts.
Practice Greenhealth annual membership drive
To create a Practice Greenhealth account:
- Go to the Practice Greenhealth website and in the upper-right corner click “sign up” or login after creating an account.
- Use hospital/member code: 166757.
- Members can access the many resources on the website and register for and attend any of the events.
Tree planting ceremony: TBD, green space north of Lozier Center for Pharmacy Science
HEAL is partnering with UNMC grounds to host a tree planting ceremony. Help improve green spaces on campus while learning more about campus sustainability efforts. Attendees can submit ideas for naming the tree, or submit an idea here. The event is being rescheduled from its original date of Oct. 3, and details will be announced soon.
Campus cleanup: Oct. 10, noon-1 p.m., Sorrell Center for Health Science Education
Join in picking up trash around campus over lunchtime with the Blue Bucket Project. Volunteers will meet near the Healing stethoscope statue outside of the Sorrell Center. Register here and invite friends, coworkers and classmates.
LiveGreen Ambassador ERG retreat: Oct. 18, noon-5 p.m., Hitchcock Nature Center
The LiveGreen Ambassador ERG is holding its first retreat. Attendees must be members of the ERG, although anyone is welcome to become a member and attend. Join the LiveGreen Ambassador program here. Members will receive information on this event in their email.
Health care culinary contest: Oct. 1-Nov. 30, online
Eating a plant-based diet can not only be beneficial to human health, but also it can reduce the carbon footprint and mitigate climate change. Every year, Health Care Without Harm hosts a contest for health care culinary professionals to take their plant-based menus to a new level. As a new Practice Greenhealth member organization, the med center now is eligible to participate. Details about the med center’s first contribution will be forthcoming.
Take action in October by:
- Attending one of these events
- Signing up to be a LiveGreen Ambassador
- Sustainably commuting with the TravelSmart program
- Refamiliarizing yourself with the med center’s sustainability goals
- Inviting peers to do the same
