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The Food Connection publishes annual UK Dining report, showing strong local purchasing performance

The Food Connection, an applied food systems center in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has recently published the FY23 dining report. The report’s analysis tracks local food purchasing...

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Nature Rx installation at Markey Cancer Center

Members of the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment’s Built Environment Faculty Working Group and UK HealthCare Sustainability Steering Committee’s Healthcare Greenspaces Taskforce have worked together for the past year to...

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2023-2024 SIP Cohort Introductions

Karen Capellan University of Kentucky Office of Sustainability Communications Intern Senior; Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Economics “Hello! I am excited about showing UK what sustainability can be! I hope to increase awareness...

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Updating Our Sustainability Strategic Plan: New Vision and Guiding Principles

In January, we kicked off our efforts to update the University’s Sustainability Strategic Plan. Since then, we have conducted focus groups with student leaders, faculty, and staff to understand their opinions on what a...

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UK Recycling on Track to Reach Waste Diversion Goal

University of Kentucky Recycling had a 47% waste diversion rate for the academic campus in the 2021 calendar year. UK has a target of diverting 50% of its campus waste from the landfill by the end of 2022 and is on...

Chelsea Colley

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Meet the Team Merging Nature and Health on the University of Kentucky Medical Campus

The University of Kentucky Medical Center strives to provide a nurturing and healthy environment for all its users including patients, families, hospital staff, faculty and students. UK has already led the way among...

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My Experience with the Sustainability Internship Program

For the last two years, I have worked as an intern with UK Recycling through the Sustainability Internship Program offered through the UK Office of Sustainability, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences...

Olivia Tussey

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Updating Our Sustainability Goals

Our commitment to sustainability requires leadership, creativity, and the ability to be nimble as challenges and opportunities evolve. Our vision for sustainability at UK includes valuing environmental stewardship and...

Shane Tedder

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Meet the New Member of the WholeSum Team: Chelsea Colley

My name is Chelsea Colley, and I am a Junior at the University of Kentucky. I am a Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies major with a minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. When I started at UK, I knew I...

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UK Recycling Encourages Campus to Join a ‘Wave’ of Change

Each year, the University of Kentucky celebrates America Recycles Day on Nov. 15 by encouraging faculty, staff and students to recycle and learn more about recycling on campus. Following last year’s eye...

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How Do We Communicate Sustainability?

Graphic design doesn’t exactly feel like a topic that should be posted about on a sustainability-focused blog. Nonetheless, here I am, an intern for the Office of Sustainability at the University of Kentucky, creating...

Amber Dotson

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Our Commitment to Climate Action: Part 2

In late 2016, President Capilouto’s announcement of the University’s first emissions reduction target concluded one chapter and opened another in the story of climate action on our campus. Students who had provided the...

Lauren Cagle

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Why UK Staff Member Joanna Ashford Has the ‘Heart to Step Up’

This month, UKNow talked to Joanna Ashford, who works as the recycling coordinator in UK Facilities Management. UKNow: What is your role here at UK? Ashford: I am the recycling coordinator for the university...

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Energy Club Partners to Bring EV Chargers to Campus

UK’s Energy Club is a group of students who are passionate about making a difference in the world, starting right here with the University’s community. With sustainability in our back pocket, our main goal...

Taylor Bowers

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Solar Energy, Students, and Sustainability

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to the scores of student advocates who have been encouraging the University to take a leadership position on climate and transition to renewables for most of the past two decades. Last week’s...

Shane Tedder

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The Food Connection publishes annual UK Dining report, showing strong local purchasing performance

Nature Rx installation at Markey Cancer Center

2023-2024 SIP Cohort Introductions

Category - Behind The Scenes

Updating Our Sustainability Strategic Plan: New Vision and Guiding Principles

UK Recycling on Track to Reach Waste Diversion Goal

Meet the Team Merging Nature and Health on the University of Kentucky Medical Campus

My Experience with the Sustainability Internship Program

Updating Our Sustainability Goals

Meet the New Member of the WholeSum Team: Chelsea Colley

UK Recycling Encourages Campus to Join a ‘Wave’ of Change

How Do We Communicate Sustainability?

Our Commitment to Climate Action: Part 2

Why UK Staff Member Joanna Ashford Has the ‘Heart to Step Up’

Energy Club Partners to Bring EV Chargers to Campus

Solar Energy, Students, and Sustainability

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