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Freshii Introduces Compostable Containers

The University of Kentucky is taking another step towards sustainability by partnering with Kanbol, a Kentucky Proud company specializing in compostable packaging. This collaboration brings Kanbol’s 32 oz compostable bowls to Freshii, offering our...

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Campus Woods Gives UK Trees New Life

The University of Kentucky is home to over twelve thousand trees, representing a variety of the 120 tree species native to our state, such as walnuts, yellow-poplar, bur oaks, hickory, and ash trees. When a tree is removed from campus, if it isn’t...

Ella Sides

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UK HealthCare Recycles Thousands of Stored X-Rays

In July 2024, University of Kentucky implemented a new healthcare enterprise policy allowing protected health information (PHI) to be destroyed following HIPAA-compliant guidelines if the film was created more than 30 years ago. This new policy...

Ryan Lark

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Introducing UK Recycling’s Hydration Station

As we move towards a more environmentally friendly conscious future, the University of Kentucky is proud to announce the introduction of a portable hydration station on campus, a move aimed at reducing waste from...

Katherine Johnson

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Sustainable Furniture Procurement

SIP Interns: What are they up to? Junior Enivronmental Science major, Jennifer Sloan, UK Purchasing Policies Intern, has created a project campaign to advocate for sustainable furniture purchases at UK. Furniture is one...

Katherine Johnson

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Intern Insights: Kayla Payne and the Built Environment Working Group

Kayla Pane, Sustainability Internship Program Junior Landscape Architecture major and Urban Studies minor, Kayla Payne, Built Environment intern, has started designing Global Gardens- Phase Two. Global Gardens, started...

Katherine Johnson

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Behind The Scenes HealthCare

Pharmaceutical Coolers Recycling Program

SIP Interns: What are they up to? Sophomore Political Science and Public Policy major, Anamei Walli, UK Healthcare intern, has created a project reducing and recycling UK HealthCare Styrofoam waste. The project...

Katherine Johnson

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Activism Behind The Scenes

The grit and grind behind novel new algae research

For over 10 years, researchers at UK’s Center for Applied Energy Research have implemented more efficient ways to capture carbon emissions from point sources using a system based on algae. And while the research...

Julia Hill

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Fabricating Play: The Big Blue Bench Comes to Cornerstone

The Big Blue Bench (figure 1) is a furniture piece and public art installation that serves as a prototype to demonstrate the reuse of plastic waste as building material (figure 2). The product is one result of a...

Katherine Johnson

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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...

Katherine Johnson

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Behind The Scenes HealthCare

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...

Katherine Johnson

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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...

Katherine Johnson

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Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling at Big Blue Move-In

Becoming a zero-waste campus is one of UK’s sustainability goals. Actually its one of our five guiding principles; Make the pursuit of these goals an integral part of the UK student experience Decarbonize campus...

Katherine Johnson

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‘Behind the Blue’: Building diversity and inclusion in UK Purchasing with Barry Swanson and Marilyn Clark

With over 60 employees, University of Kentucky’s Purchasing Division handles around $1.4 billion worth of transactions for the entire university community. Barry Swanson, UK’s chief procurement officer...

Chelsea Colley

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UK EcoReps host events to educate campus community about sustainability

The University of Kentucky EcoRep program is an intern-led program established in 2017 as part of UK Recycling’s goals to increase recycling and waste diversion efforts on campus. This program’s...

Kathryn Tutwiler

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Freshii Introduces Compostable Containers

Campus Woods Gives UK Trees New Life

UK HealthCare Recycles Thousands of Stored X-Rays

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Introducing UK Recycling’s Hydration Station

Sustainable Furniture Procurement

Intern Insights: Kayla Payne and the Built Environment Working Group

Pharmaceutical Coolers Recycling Program

The grit and grind behind novel new algae research

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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

Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling at Big Blue Move-In

‘Behind the Blue’: Building diversity and inclusion in UK Purchasing with Barry Swanson and Marilyn Clark

UK EcoReps host events to educate campus community about sustainability

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