University of Louisville
EN-4: Outreach Materials and Publications

In the Fall of 2010, the UofL Sustainability Council launched a new website (louisville.edu/sustainability) to consolidate information and provide links to the wide variety of sustainability initiatives on our campuses. It includes the following sections: Sustainability Council: Annual Reports Climate Action Plan Contacts Council Documents Eco-Reps Get Involved Green Tips Links Memberships & Affiliations Ratings & Rankings Meeting Schedules Admin/Finance/Outreach: Community Engagement Diversity & Affordability Human Resources Investments Peace & Justice Education & Research: Academic Programs Continuing Ed. Events Green Threads Research Operations: Buildings & Energy Campus Gardens EcoReps Food Green Purchasing Grounds Info Tech Master Planning Model Green Rooms Recycling Stormwater Transportation Waste Reduction

In 2015, the UofL Sustainability Council launched a new blog to replace our previous newsletter: http://uoflsustainable.wordpress.com/ UofL Green Scene was a monthly column written by faculty, staff and students engaged in sustainability which is distributed via email to all employees through UofL Today and posted online. It ran 2010-2014 and all past columns are accessible through the UofL Sustainability News webpage. Past topics include: • The Ville Grill • Student athletes take action • New Vanpool Program • Bring Your Own Mug & Save • Mindfulness & Sustainability • Team Kentuckiana - The Phoenix House • Chemical Exchange Program • Students Compete to Reduce • 5th Annual CSA Fair • IT uses innovative strategies to go green • Eco-Representing • Think Outside The Car • DEHS takes campus recycling to the next level • A great food city and beyond • Students make it happen with low-cost solar • Wrapping your mind around reducing campus energy use • UofL loves mountains • Giving your green to ensure UofL stays green • Composters wanted • Team promotes sustainable practices on Shelby Campus • Strides in the journey, but mountains to climb • What is sustainability? • Help make our campus fair – trade, that is • Sustainable Changes • Environmental mindfulness • Sustainable Investing at UofL • Climate Change Teach-In - be a climate justice super hero • The Green Dude abides • Recyclemania returns • Trees bring both green and gold to Belknap Campus • Green Careers Speaker Series/internship fair • Green holidays save money, resources, environment • Committing to the climate • Lessons from a summer on the farm • This is your brain on driving • Say 'no' to bottled water • Environmental crime - Why don't those folks ever go to jail? • How I was 'butt-ed' into action to clean up campus • Gray Street Farmers' Market • Getting a food education • Climate Change Teach-In: Awareness, Education, and Activism • Living green and loving it

In addition to the many UofL sustainability-related student groups which manage social media sites, the Sustainability Council hosts a number of social media platforms, including: • UofL Sustainability Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/UofLSustainable • UofL Sustainability Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/uoflsustainability/ • EcoReps Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/UofLEcoReps • UofL Sustainability Twitter: http://twitter.com/UofLSustainable • UofL Sustainability Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/uoflsustainable/ • UofL Sustainability Blog: http://uoflsustainable.wordpress.com/ All of these platforms are used to keep students and some employees engaged in sustainability on and off campus, highlighting opportunities for service, internships, events, activism, and more.

UofL's LEED Gold Student Recreation Center opened in October 2013, featuring geothermal heating and cooling, solar hot water, rainwater capture & storage for irrigation, and a Siemens building dashboard prominently available in the lobby on an interactive touch-screen that displays the performance of these systems and explains their function. The digital signage also displays green tips encouraging building users to make more sustainable choices in their daily lives. At a dozen locations around campus, UofL collaborated with the Louisville Water Company in 2014-15 to install large, professional signs over filling stations promoting the environmental, health, and financial benefits of choosing tap water over bottled water. Similar signage had previously been installed a number of UofL Athletics facilities.

• UofL Dining Service (Sodexo) posts a Local Food Map (https://uofl.sodexomyway.com/images/Local%20Purchasing%20Map%20June%202015_tcm427-7483.pdf) explaining where food is sourced and what's in season. • In partnership with Louisville Farm to Table, UofL Dining Service (Sodexo) produces marketing materials to accompany locally-sourced meal service, including menu identification of local foods and a leaflet stating “U of L Likes Local” with five reasons why the university supports the use of local food and a list of campus sustainability efforts.

Signs at the base of dozens of trees around campus help educate people about tree name, species and whether they are native to the region. These signs are a part of the Belknap Tree Tour, a self-guided 1.75mile walking tour of some of the interesting and historical trees on Belknap campus. The tour features an interactive online map, s downloadable Tree Tour pamphlet, or print versions available during business hours at the North Information Center.

UofL's Belknap Campus Sustainability Walking Tour requires about one and half hours and is led by UofL's sustainability coordinator or other Sustainability Council members upon request and as a part of several larger public events throughout the year. It was created in 2010 to highlight a variety of initiatives at several stops along the way: • Cultural Center: Organic Garden Commons, composting, fruit trees, rain barrels, greenhouse, solar power • SAC: Bike racks & fixit stations; BigBelly solar trash compactors; Kentucky Proud section of bookstore • Threlkeld: Lawn replacements; single-stream recycling; energy-efficiency retrofits • Lutz Circle: No-Idling Policy; bike lanes; solar pool heater • Steam & Chilled Water Plant: Coal-free campus • Ernst: Biodiesel program & Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research • Eastern Parkway: Road diet - bike lanes & bus shelters • Duthie: LEED Gold renovation • Sackett: Dual-tracking solar array (PV and hot water) • Gardiner: Green conference room; A&S Green Team office audits; Campus Tree Tour • Ekstrom: Heine Brothers fair trade, locally-roasted coffee; Rain Gardens • Ville Grill: Trayless dining; vegetarian/local/organic/fair-trade foods & food waste composting • Louisville Hall: Green Dorm Room; transit options; • SRC: LEED Gold design - geothermal & solar hot water; Building Dashboard; Bike-share program; UofL car-share • College of Business: Water bottle filing stations to eliminate bottled water; Vegetated Roof

In 2009, UofL launched a "Commute Green" campaign to provide commuters with information about lower-impact transportation alternatives including: living close enough to campus to walk, bicycling (Earn-A-Bike Program & UofL BikeShare), taking the bus (free with UofL ID!), carpooling/vanpooling, and UofL carshare. This guide is available online and is distributed in print at a wide variety of events, including new employee and new student orientations, Campus Sustainability Day, Earth Day, and other campus events. An online resource page specifically for bicycle commuting to UofL has also been created: http://louisville.edu/sustainability/operations/transportation.html

The Sustainability Council distributes Louisville bike maps at many campus events and kiosks throughout the year. The Council also has a webpage specifically for bicyclists which features a wide variety of navigation and educational tools, including the online safer route finding tool ridethecity.com. The Council also funded the latest revision of the campus map stands to feature safe routes for cyclists and pedestrians as well as the locations of campus bikeshare, carshare, and transit stops.

The Cards Go Green! Pledge includes over two-dozen ideas for green living from reducing waste to conserving energy and water. Students are asked to pledge to take at least three of the steps when the guide is distributed in print at a wide variety of events, including new student orientations, Campus Sustainability Day, Earth Day, and other campus events. The Sustainability Council also maintains a Green Tips webpage, listing ideas about what residents and anyone at UofL can do to lead a more sustainable life and help improve our community.

The Louisville Cardinal student newspaper regularly covers sustainability-related topics, and has assigned reporters to the sustainability beat. These articles are archived here: http://louisville.edu/sustainability/news.html.

University Communications & Marketing has a reporter assigned to the campus sustainability beat and regularly produces press releases and outreach material (stories, photos, videos, and announcements) for both internal and external audiences.

The daily "UofL Today" campus news and announcement service includes a weekly "Green Tip" highlighting ways people in the UofL community can get involved in promoting sustainability (especially through choices they make in their daily lives).

UofL sustainability topics are covered frequently on the new radio show, public access TV show and podcast: UofL Today with Mark Hebert, on 93.9 FM The Ville.

Green Tips and information about local foods and learning to cook are included in the bimonthly Campus Health News produced by the Office of Health Promotion. Similarly, UofL's employee health and wellness program, Get Healthy Now, regularly posts campus-wide sustainability-related announcements and ideas (e.g. biking to work, eating local and seasonal foods, Meatless Mondays, etc.).

Sustainability Green Tips and stories about campus sustainability initiatives are occasionally included in the UofL Connection alumni newsletter and UofL Magazine.

The journal Sustain is published semi-annually by the Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development at UofL. The Institute provides a forum to conduct interdisciplinary research, applied scholarly analysis, public service and educational outreach on environmental and sustainable development issues at the local, state, national and international levels. Each issue of Sustain focuses on different themes, including: Issue 9: Kentucky's Environmental Future Issue 10: Justice and the Environment Issue 11: Global Sustainability Issue 12: Green Cities Issue 13: Pollution and Heart Disease Issue 14: Land Conservation Issue 15: Our Energy Future Issue 16: Climate Change Issue 17: Evolving Pollution Prevention Issue 18: Student Research Issue 19: Environmental History Issue 20: Sustainable Building Issue 21: Sustainable Communities Issue 22: Environmentally Responsible Land Use Issue 23: Renewable Energy Issue 24: Stream Restoration Issue 25: Biodiversity Issue 26: Active Transportation Issue 27: Local Foods

The monthly President’s Report produced by the Office of the President is now proudly 100% Carbon Neutral (The delivery of this publication is carbon neutral and it is printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper) and highlights campus sustainability initiatives from time to time.