University of Georgia
ER-T2-6: Sustainability Events

UGA is host to a several major events related to sustainability each year: Gameday Recycling: Students cheer on the Dawgs and encourage fans to tailgate sustainably. Green Cup Challenge: The UGA Green Cup Challenge is a competition among the residents of the Hill community to reduce their energy, water, and waste over a one month period. Campus Sustainability Day: CSD is a day of focus – on what has been accomplished and what is needed to maintain momentum. Emphasis is on connecting to new groups and allies on campus, highlighting student stories, planning for the future, and reaching out to external partners. CSD is devoted to the achievements of, and challenges for, the students, faculty, and staff who are instilling sustainability principles and practices into their institutions and surrounding communities. America Recycles Day: More than a celebration, America Recycles Day is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling in the United States. One day to educate and motivate. One day to get our neighbors, friends and community leaders excited about what can be accomplished when we all work together. One day to make recycling bigger and better 365 days a year. Semester in Review: Creating a Culture of Sustainability at UGA At the end of fall smester, Office of Sustianability interns and students from sustainability-focused courses present tehir efforts to members of the UGA and Athens community. Red Clay Conference: The Red Clay Conference is an annual Environmental Law Conference that is entirely student organized by members of the Environmental Law Association at the University of Georgia School of Law. ELA's continuing mission is to advance sound environmental policy, encourage discussion and raise awareness among attorneys and law-makers here in Georgia and throughout the Southeast. The goal of the conference is to increase public awareness of environmental issues of regional, national, and international significance through a series of educational presentations and open forum discussions. Recyclemania: RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. UGA mixes up the theme each year and incorporates internal events and competitions. EcoFocus Film Festival: The mission of EcoFocus is to inform and inspire audiences about environmental issues through film. Our primary activity is the annual film festival, which features engaging and often award-winning films from around the world presented with dynamic speakers, panel discussions and events. Films selected for EcoFocus reveal the planet’s beauty and the environmental challenges facing this and future generations, and highlight inspirational stories about people working to protect the environment and its inhabitants. UGA Earth Week: UGA Earth Week is a week-long celebration of sustainability with multiple events each day focused on various topics or themes from food and waste to transportation and careers in sustainability. Events are designed to engage and inspire action. Recycling Happy Hour: The University of Georgia Office of Sustainability and WUGA radio, along with the Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division, host a Recycling Happy Hour as an annual event on campus. The spring-cleaning event is for students, faculty and staff and the general public to bring hard-to-recycle objects including electronics such as computers, televisions, phones, cords and cables; batteries; fluorescent bulbs; Styrofoam; and used cooking grease. Dawgs Ditch the Dumpster: Dawgs Ditch the Dumpster” is an initiative co-sponsored by University Housing, Hillel at UGA, Go Green Alliance, and the UGA Office of Sustainability. During move-out in early May of each year, students are asked to donate their unwanted items to the local community at a convenient drop site located within each campus residential community.