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November 2013

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Sustainability

Spotlight

Campus Sustainability Week Wrap-Up

Campus Sustainability Week was a Success!

During the week of October 21st, KU celebrated Campus Sus-

tainability 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

Attendees of the Sustainability Symposium listen to a

presentation by Uma Outka, Associate Professor, KU

School of Law

On Tuesday anyone biking to campus was invited

to bike by and grab breakfast and coffee, and sign a

pledge for bicycle commuting

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Sustainability Spotlight November 2013

Thank you for helping KU Fight Hunger

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.

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:

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.

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

Follow @kufightshunger on Twitter

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

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

in need in Douglas County!

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Sustainability Spotlight November 2013

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.

Calling all planners, leaders, ambassadors...

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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

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.

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.

In conjunction with the performance of red, black & GREEN: a blues the

Lied Center and KU Center for Sustainability will be hosting a Sus-

tainability 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 crea-

tor 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.

Free Additional Activities

Sustainability Expo

Saturday, Nov. 9, 6-7 p.m.

Lied Center

Salvaged Art Project

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KU RECYCLING SORTING GUIDELINES November 2013

Includes: Does Not Include:

White Paper Newsprint

Pastel Colored Paper Cardboard or Chipboard

Brochures Paper or Styrofoam Cups

Stapled Books Napkins of Tissues

Envelopes Food Contaminated Paper

Manila File Folders Magazines or Glossy Paper

Junk Mail Books with Glued Binding

Greeting Cards Paper Bags

Heavy Weight Paper

Includes: Does Not Include:

All Newsprint Magazines or Glossy Paper

Phone Books or Catalogs

Includes: Does Not Include:

Corrugated Cardboard Boxes Soiled Pizza Boxes

Corrugated Packaging Waxy Cardboard

Any boxes that have food

contamination

Includes: Does Not Include:

Other Paperboard Packaging Corrugated Cardboard

Includes: Does Not Include:

Magazines Junk Mail

Glossy Paper Phone Directories

Includes: Does Not Include:

Steel (tin) cans ONLY Aluminum Cans

Bottles of any kind

Sheet or Scrap Metal

Any #1-#7 plastic (salad bar take-out, plastic packaging etc)

TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES &

CATALOGS

Includes campus and municipal phone

books and catalogs with similar con-

struction (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

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 shred-

ded paper in, or stack on top of or next to the

regular recycling bins. Instead, contact KU

Recycling for a special collection.

OFFICE PAK

NEWSPAPER

CORRUGATED CARDBOARD

CHIPBOARD

MAGAZINES

#1— #7 PLASTICS

STEEL CANS

ALUMINUM CANS

Includes: Does Not Include:

Aluminum cans ONLY Foil Food Wrappers

Steel or Tin Cans

KU Recycling collects the following materials at most locations.