SustainabiliTEA Party
11:30am-12:30pm
A&S 022
Sponsored by SEaS

Join us for sustainable teas, savories, and sweets
and to support The Audubon Society and their
mission to protect birds and their habitats!

Campus@UC Opportunities Fair
1:00-3:00pm
Location TBD
Sponsored by Student Government, the Office of Sustainability, SEaS, and Net Impact UC

One-stop shop for all things sustainability on campus. This event will bring together faculty, student organizations, and initiatives with a sustainability focus to showcase how students can get involved.

Sustainability@UC Week Kick-off
5:00-6:00pm
Lindhall 1210
Sponsored by Student Government

Join us for the official launch of Sustainability @ UC Week! Enjoy a teaser on Imaginal Cells film, keynote speech on the Golden Rule from alumni Kim Polman, and student conversation inviting you to imagine and build a better future. All are welcome!

Urban Design and Green Infrastructure Workshop
5:30-7:30pm
Lindhall 0600
Sponsored by the Society of Environmental Engineers and Urbanism Club

A fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll learn about urban design and green infrastructure, then how to use them in your own design!

Reimagining Nature Centers
1:00-3:00pm
Trailside Nature Center, Burnet Woods (3251 Brookline Ave, Cincinnati)
Sponsored by the Trailside Nature Center and PEWS

Trailside Nature Center in Burnet Woods invites members of the UC community to help Cincinnati Parks better understand what a modern nature center would look like to better serve the needs and wants of the UC community. The event includes a brief tour and history of the facility and the park.

Sustainability Careers: Perspectives from UC Alumni
4:00-5:00pm
Clifton Court Hall 5280
Sponsored by SEaS

Join alumni from the past several decades
of UC’s Environmental Studies program to
hear perspectives on the current job
market in environment and sustainability!
Representatives from non-profit,
government, and corporate sectors will be
here to answer your questions and for
networking!

Regenerative Economics Workshop
5:00-7:00pm
Lindhall 4330
Sponsored by Student Government, UC Econ Society, and Net Impact UC

A workshop on the 8 Principles of Regenerative Economics (framework developed by John Fullerton, former Managing Director at JP Morgan), facilitated by Kim Polman.

Native Plant Potting and Planting
7:00-8:00pm
Swift 519
Sponsored by the UC Beekeeping Club and the UC Horticulture Club

Join Beekeeping Club and Horticulture Club in a collaboration event painting pots and planting seeds!

Sustainability Week Thrift Pop-up
11:00am-4:00pm
Location TBD
Sponsored by UC Thrift

UC Thrift club is hosting their monthly pop up for Sustainability Week! As always they have a wide selection of used clothing, home goods and accessories at pay what you want prices! Help us give used clothes from our community a new life.

Sustainability at the World Wildlife Fund
12:30-2:00pm
Aronoff 3430 (College of DAAP)
Sponsored by PEWS

Join Evan Walker, World Wildlife Fund US Director of Corporate Engagement, for a talk about his work around the US to bring sustainability to Fortune 500 Companies.

Why did the bird cross campus? Avian sustainability in our environment
4:00-5:00pm
Braunstein 201
Sponsored by UC Ornithology Club

Learn about spring bird migration and its connection to Burnet Woods, and its relation to bird window collisions on campus.

ASHRAE Decarb Games
7:00-8:00pm
Baldwin 750
Sponsored by UC ASHRAE

Come hang out with ASHRAE (the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) and play sustainability-themed board games!

Bearcat Recycling
8:15-10:45pm
Meet at the UC Bike Kitchen
Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability

Special registration required: click here!

Let’s recycle together at 5/3 after the Bearcats defeat Baylor! This is a great opportunity for both service hours and a hands-on learning experience.

Student Poster Session and Community Tabling Event
5:00-6:30pm
Clifton Court Hall Lobby/Atrium
Sponsored by PEWS and the Office of Sustainability

Reception included!

Check out student research on sustainability from a variety of disciplines, and network with community organizations working on sustainability in Cincinnati. Open to all!

UC Sustainability Awards
6:30-7:15pm
Clifton Court Hall 1170
Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability

Motivating the UC community to foster a culture of sustainability while advancing academic excellence, urban impact, and innovation. Nominate someone here!

Public Keynote: Biting the Hands that Feed US:
Labor and Social Sustainability
in the Food System
7:30-9:00pm
Clifton Court Hall 1170
Sponsored by PEWS and SEAS

Join Dr. Teresa Mares, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems, for her public keynote. This talk examines the legal, social, and political contexts of labor in the food system, highlighting themes of migration, agrarian exceptionalism, and racial and gendered inequality.

Environmental Storytelling through Games
12:30-1:50pm
Clifton Court Hall 1110
Sponsored by PEWS and the UC Game Lab

Play environmental board games with the UC Game Lab, with the core question being: What environmental and human processes are featured in these games, and how do the games mechanically and representationally transform them into metaphors?

Games will include: ATi, Rising Waters, Daybreak, Cascadia, Harmonies, Spirit Island

Film Screening of “When Silence Becomes the Song“
4:30-6:00pm
Clifton Court Hall 1170
Sponsored by SEaS

Wrap up Sustainabiltiy@UC week with a screening of a 60-minute documentary and talk with director Ella Marcil. Popcorn and snacks! 

“When Silence Becomes The Song” is a documentary following a determined film student as she teams up with passionate biologists and conservation videographers on a journey across the remote and rain-soaked Alakaʻi Plateau in search of the ʻAkikiki, a critically endangered forest bird found solely in the mountains of Kauaʻi

Critical Walk Workshop on Floating
12:15-2:00pm
Meet at Sitwell’s Coffeehouse
Sponsored by SEaS and the Taft Floats

Contact: Chandra Frank: 213-479-9802

Please join us for a critical walking workshop inspired by how we ‘float’, ‘flow’ and are “carried” through space. We will use floating as a guiding concept—in how more-than-humans and other-than-humans move—taking a particular note of the local ecology. Departing from a range of movement and writing prompts, we will explore and listen to how life ‘floats’ by us, and how we float through it. We will tune into floating, spilling, and leaking sounds and/or debris/objects and collectively consider how floating might demand different forms of presence and attention across the seen and unseen.

Research Poster Exhibit
Throughout Sustainability@UC Week
Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability

This exhibit invites the entire campus to explore sustainability from a fresh perspective, highlighting how every discipline has a role in shaping our resilience.

From January 26–29, multidisciplinary, sustainability-focused research posters will be showcased in buildings across campus, offering the UC community an opportunity to explore the work of student researchers and discover how the social, environmental, and economic pillars of sustainability involve and enrich their own fields of study.

Researchers will then have the opportunity to present their work at a Poster Session & Community Tabling Event the evening of the 29th, right before the Sustainability Awards and S@UC Keynote Lecture by Dr. Teresa Mares.

Abstract submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis through January 14th, 2026. Submit yours here!

Hub Dropoff
4:00-6:00pm throughout Sustainability@UC Week
Lindner Atrium (tables to right of main entrance)
Sponsored by the Office of Sustainability

As a part of Sustainability@UC Week, the Office of Sustainability is hosting daily collections of items for transport to the Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub (“the Hub”). The Hub is a local facility that recycles hundreds of items not accepted at curbside.

Overwhelmed by how much the Hub accepts? Start by holding onto one item you find yourself frequently tossing, like grocery bags or plastic mailers, then bring your stash to us. We’ll keep it out of the landfill for you!

Please note: all items must be clean, dry, and free of debris.