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Sustainability events around campus this academic year
- 11/12: Film - Dirt!
- 11/17: UNCG Sustainability Expo!
- 12/3: Film - Buyer Be Fair
- 1/27: A new Matthew Barr film on George McGovern
- 2/18: Film - A Sea Change
- 3/25-26: Sustainability Shorts (two nights with a celebration the second night!)
- 4/22: Film - Another Corleone: Another Sicily
Sustainability Goals for the UNCG Grounds Maintenance Department
Short-term goals:
- Expand composting facilities for campus grounds’ organic waste
- Minimal financial investment, but does require some land
- Reduces disposal costs
- Results in a beneficial byproduct that UNCG can use and sell
- Campus-wide Litter Pick & Pride campaign
- Educational literature and communication; more well-placed litter containers
Daily litter removal requires surprising quantities of personnel hours, gasoline, etc., that could be better spent on sustainability efforts - Volunteer program to assist in litter removal from campus areas where volunteers work or live, e.g. library staff clean up around the library, resident students outside their dorms
- Irrigation self-audit system for campus grounds and sports fields
- Install rainwater collection and storage system at Sports Turf Care Center
- Pilot program to serve as a model and the inspiration for other campus departments and buildings
- Pollinator-friendly plantings
- Establish flowering and nectar-producing plantings, with emphasis on late-summer-blooming varieties in highly visible locations
- Encourage and support populations of honeybees, butterflies, hummingbirds, etc., which are so essential to agricultural food production
- Perhaps an educational demo garden, with labeled plants, in Peabody Park?
- Sustainable reconstruction of existing soccer-practice field
- Improve field performance with better surface leveling as well as drainage, runoff control, and efficient sub-irrigation using collected rainwater
- Convert to warm-season turf grass on our five existing golf greens
- Greatly reduced maintenance costs would result from a reduced dependence on irrigation, fertilizers, and re-planting
- Install “green” toilet facility at the Outdoor Student Recreation Area volleyball and basketball courts
- Model the use of composting, solar and/or wind energy, and rainwater harvesting technologies
- Provide service to a student area currently lacking sanitary facilities