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November 2013
Page 1 KU Center for Sustainability
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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]
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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Page 3 KU Center for Sustainability
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 [email protected].
Calling all planners, leaders, ambassadors...
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Page 4 KU Center for Sustainability
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, [email protected], 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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Page 5 KU Center for Sustainability
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.