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UCCS Office of Sustainability

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UCCS Office of Sustainability

Our Vision: To be a recognized leader in sustainability, integrating social, economic and ecological

10/23/2024

Want to see an exclusive tour of a 1950s era powerplant 👀? On Tuesday, November 5th, Colorado Springs Utilities is giving us the opportunity to tour the historic 1953 Birdsall Powerplant and the former Drake powerplant! Learn how Colorado Springs Utilities has powered 🔋your city for over 100 years, and how they are making the shift towards cleaner energy production⚡️!

Spots are limited! So make sure to register at the QR code above as well as on our Mountain Lion Connect 🦁! We hope to see you there 💚
Discover the past, Power a Sustainable Future!

10/08/2024

Want to learn more about sustainability in general 🤨? Come this Friday to our Sustainability 101 workshop!

Learn how to identify areas of improvement within the uccs community 🕵🏻, come up with an action plan 🤔, and even start brainstorming your own ideas to submit to 💚💚

Sustainability is more than just the environmental side of things! Come find out more about the three pillars of sustainability, and how you can be sustainable in any major at ♻️

Register on MLC today to ensure your spot and food!

09/15/2024

Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to help us clean our adopted waterway for ‘s Day of Service! We couldn’t have done it without your help 🫶🏻.
In just 2 hours, we were able to fill 10+ bags of trash 🗑️ picked up from our local adopted water way off of Union and Templeton Gap! Swipe to the end to see just how much litter we picked up 👀 ———>

Didn’t get a chance to help out? No problem! We will be partnering with on September 28th for another creek cleanup for this year’s creek week! You can find out more on the Office of Sustainability’s Mountain Lion Connect.

Creek cleanups are important to help keep our watershed free of pollutants 🚮, protecting habitats for wildlife 🦫🦝, and to keep the natural beauty of our limited resource staying beautiful 🏔️🌊.

05/14/2024

Last week, the Office of Sustainability partnered with Reslife and Housing, Facilities Services and to bring back our "Ditch the Dumpster" Move-Out initiative. This initiative strives to take students' unwanted items and to donate them to community donation centers throughout Colorado Springs such as Arc, Good Will, Who Gives a Scrap, and even Clyde's Cupboard.

Throughout the week, we diverted 2,860 lbs of items from the landfill! Next year, we hope to bring that number up even more!

Thank you to all students who participated and all of the staff who helped put this together! A big shoutout to College Hunks who helped us transport items off campus, weigh them, and deliver them to donation centers, all for free! We greatly appreciate you helping to make our community both on and off campus more sustainable!

04/09/2024

Are you ready for Earth Week?!? The Office of Sustainability is gearing up for a long week of event programming beginning on April 20th.

We will be kicking off Earth Week with at their Days of Service Event, leading the effort to clean up Portal Park.

On Monday, join us at Concrete Coyote for a day of art, gardening, construction, and creek cleanup projects. Pizza will also be served for lunch at the beginning of the event.

On Tuesday, we will be partnering with the community, providing students the opportunity to test drive an electric vehicle.

On Wednesday, catch us at the and come see all of the exciting activities they are offering throughout the day! More info on their page.

On Thursday, we will be hosting our annual Sustainability Summit where we celebrate the accomplishments of sustainability not just for our office but for the whole campus during 2023-2024. We will have catered street tacos for lunch as well as refreshments. All students welcome!

More information on all of these events can be found at https://mlc.uccs.edu/organization/uccs-office-of-sustainability

Spread the word and bring your friends!

02/23/2024

On February 13th, the Office of Sustainabity joined UCCS Radio at their "Break From the Grind" event and provided tote bags for students to decorate. Students seemed to really enjoy it! Be on the lookout for more events like this in the future. We have plenty more tote bags to decorate.

Additionally, we'll be releasing our program schedule for Earth Week in April soon!

02/02/2024

Come Join UCCS Radio and the Office of Sustainability for "A Break From the Grind" at Clyde's Gastropub on February 13th to decorate a free tote bag!

12/15/2023

Hey everybody. After a long hiatus, the Office of Sustainability's page is back up and running. Curious to know what we've been up to? We've been busy this semester! As of now, there are 5 student staff and 3 interns working at the Office. We also recently hired a new Green Action Fund Project Coordinator, Vee Garcia.

We have been working on revamping our Battery Recycling Program, collecting batteries on campus and salvaging the recyclable batteries. Find the black buckets around campus or check out our website for drop-off locations. sustain.uccs/edu/programs/zero-waste

We hosted the 2023 President's Sustainable Solutions Challenge where students were awarded up to $1,000 for pitching sustainable, innovative solutions to sustainability related issues on campus. We have already begun planning for next year's challenge, so be sure to keep an eye out if you are looking for a chance to win!

We have also begun crafting our report for the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS). This will help us get a thorough idea of where sustainability stands on campus!

We are hard at work over here at the Sustainability Demonstration House. Come stop by or check out our monthly newsletter for more information!

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04/29/2022

“Everyone can be great because everyone can serve” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank you to our 47 Clean-the-Stream volunteers for giving back to our community and clearing 40+ bags of trash from adopted waterway!

04/22/2022

happy earth day! 🌍🌏🌎 our theme this year: ‘what brings you hope?’

in celebration of ‘s new book, The Book of Hope, we want to know how you stay motivated to continue making systematic changes to combat climate change and invest in intersectional environmental justice.

stop by the el pomar plaza to see the artwork inspired by this question

10/06/2021

The Pikes Peak Litter Letter Project marks the start of Arts Month in Colorado Springs and the wrap-up of Creek Week!

Creek Week clean-up crews adopt a letter and fill it with trash collected from our local waterways. This year’s word is RESPECT.

10/05/2021

Thanks to our 87 volunteers, we pulled 100+ bags of trash from the Templeton Gap Floodway during Creek Week, Colorado’s largest watershed-wide clean-up!

Our watershed starts in Palmer Lake and ends in Pueblo where it converges with the Arkansas River, then the Mississippi River and eventually the Gulf of Mexico.

But Creek Week doesn’t have to be celebrated once a year! Next time you’re on a walk or hike, bring a bag to pick up litter you find along the way. And join us in the spring for our next clean-up!

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1420 Austin Bluffs, Patterson House
Colorado Springs, CO
80918

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+17192553089

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http://www.uccs.edu/~sustain

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