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UCCS Office of Sustainability
1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy, CSB 230
Colorado Springs CO 80918
sustain@uccs.edu
Telephone: 719.255.3089

The Office of Sustainability is a department of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance.

Provost Peg Bacon and Geography Professor Carole Huber enjoying the festivities at Bike Jam 3.

Student volunteers help to clean up the Templeton Gap Waterway near Austin Bluffs and Union for our biannual Adopt-A-Waterway volunteer event.

Students, faculty, and staff engage in group yoga lessons at our annual Earth Day celebration on the West Lawn.

Volunteer students staffing a 'Zero Waste Station' at a basketball game in the Gallogly Events Center.

UCCS Sustainability Office staffing a table at the Colorado Springs Green Fair.

Students volunteer to sort through the school's garbage for the annual Mount Trashmore event on the El Pomar Plaza.

Student volunteers help to clean up the Templeton Gap Waterway near Austin Bluffs and Union for our biannual Adopt-A-Waterway volunteer event.

Staff and Faculty check out the Bike Month Challenge at our annual Bike Jam event.

Students, faculty, and staff enjoying Earth Day celebration at UCCS on the West Lawn.

Sustainability volunteers help incoming students with their move-in at the dorms before the first week of classes.

A volunteer gets ready to haul a shopping cart out of the Templeton Gap Floodway for our biannual Adopt-A-Waterway volunteer event.

Volunteers enjoying the beautiful weather at our annual Earth Day celebration.

Student volunteers pose for a group photo at our annual Mount Trashmore event on the El Pomar Plaza.

Franke James, author of Bothered by My Green Conscience, speaks about her book at the Kraemer Family Library.

Facilities Services 2009 holiday potluck is the first \"zero waste\" event on campus. UCCS Physical Plant Manager Rob Dougherty demonstrating the proper reuse technique!

A plaque is presented for the annual Sustainability Campus Award.

An employee shows off his bike helmet prize at our annual Bike Jam event.

Volunteers gather for a group photo at our biannual Adopt-A-Waterway Cleanup event.

Our student employees are proud of the work we accomplish in the Office of Sustainability.

Representatives of the Campus Recreation Center get the word out on the free Bike Share program at our annual Earth Day event.

This pile, gathered during our annual Mount Trashmore event, represents just one day's worth of landfill waste on our campus.

Students have fun playing volleyball across a clothesline at our annual Earth Day event.

Sustainability volunteers help incoming students with their move-in at the dorms before the first week of classes.

Students and staff got a real kick out of the recumbent bicycle demos at our annual Bike Jam event.

A student pulls refuse and debris from the Templeton Gap Waterway at our biannual Adopt-A-Waterway event.

Volunteer students at our annual Mount Trashmore event take on the dirty job of sorting through the campus trash to find out what we're throwing out that could be recycled.

Students enjoying the festivities at our annual Earth Day event on the West Lawn.

The UCCS Office of Sustainability unites the efforts of faculty, staff and students to support development and lifestyles on campus and in the community that sustain natural resources and protect the environment, ultimately ensuring the ability of future generations to meet their needs too.

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News

AASHE 2011 Annual Conference: Campuses and Communities Read More...
UCCS Green Action Fund now accepting applications Read More...
Regional Sustainability Plan aims to provide a development map Read More...

Archived News

Events

February 6, 2012, 7:00pm
Healthy Forests for the Colorado River Basin | Colorado College, Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall

Archived Events

Program Highlights

2012 RecycleMania Tournament

Are you ready to kick some trash?! RecycleMania is an 8-week long event where schools across the nation compete to see who has the best recycling rate and lowest waste per person! UCCS is competing, and ready more than ever to show the nation how we do recycling here in Colorado Springs. We beat Harvard University last year in RecycleMania, and we're looking forward to doing it again!! Let's beat Harvard!

You can check more out at the RecycleMania website. Also, you can check our numbers here from February 5th – March 31st!

UCCS Launches the Green Action Fund

In spring 2011, an amendment to the $5-per-semester student Solar Fee Referendum passed, which expands the purpose of the solar fee to include a broader range of sustainability-related projects on the campus. In support of this student action, the Green Action Fund was created, providing monies in these financially challenging times for projects that students desire to implement. Any UCCS student, faculty, or staff member may submit a project application. For more information or if you have an idea for a project, go here.