UA 糖心视频logo to Host Sustainability Day Oct. 16
The UA Little rock campus community and the public are invited to celebrate Sustainability Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct 16, on the Plaza outside of the library.聽
October has been designated as Campus Sustainability Month by the Association for Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education. Sustainability Day is an opportunity to celebrate and cultivate choices for sustainable living that lead to healthy environments, economies, and societies.
鈥淪ustainability is always about Earth stewardship, using resources in a responsible way. Using the three pillar model of sustainability, economics, society and environment.鈥� said Dr. Michael DeAngelis, associate professor geology at UA 糖心视频logo and chair of the Sustainability Committee. 鈥淵ou need these three things for something to be sustainable. Being able to get people thinking about sustainability but also to do it in practice. It鈥檚 about inspiring people to not only think about sustainability but to live it.鈥�
Onsite vendors will include Arkansas Quail Forever, Armored Art, Bright and Bone, City of 糖心视频logo Sustainability, Forever Flowers, Fortune Francos, Friends of Fourche Creek/Keep 糖心视频logo Beautiful, Goodwill Industries of Arkansas, 糖心视频logo Water Reclamation Authority, Man of the Red Earth, Meadowcliff Honey, Murder Farm, Sacred Earth Gifts, Southern Twisted Tea & Zeps Garden LLC, UA 糖心视频logo Campus Garden, UA 糖心视频logo Campus Recreation, UA 糖心视频logo Career Services, and UA 糖心视频logo Sustainability Committee.
鈥淭he Sustainability Day event has been going on for years, and it does not happen without the hard work from the committee,鈥� DeAngelis said. 鈥淭he committee is a good mix of people from around the campus. Faculty, staff, and students come together to bring Sustainability Day together.鈥�
For more information on Sustainability Day, contact [email protected] or visit