UC Sustainability
Enhancing and Creating a Culture of Sustainability at the University of Cincinnati


April in Reflection: Renewable Energy
What is Renewable Energy? Renewable energy is energy that comes from sources that are naturally replenishing, but are flow-limited. This...

Spring Cleaning: Home Edition
We have now been homebound from the pandemic for a whole year. If you are anything like me, this time last year you did a lot of cleaning...

Moving Out and Have Stuff to Get Rid Of? There’s a Re-Use Market for That!
By Bridgette Stegman Are you moving out of your current residence and have too much “stuff” to take with you? You should consider...
Earth Week 2021
Earth Day has been a spotlight for environmental and worldly issues for generations. Originating in 1970, this day provides a voice to...

March in Reflection: Sustainable Fashion
What is Fast Fashion? Fast fashion can be described as cheap pieces of clothing that are massed produced from styles seen in high fashion...

Spring Cleaning: Bike Edition
The sun has finally peaked its head out from behind the everlasting cloud cover of another dreary Cincinnati winter season. As the...
Life as an Advocate: Delaney Malloy
Hi Everyone! My name is Delaney Malloy, I am a first year Environmental Studies major and Biology minor, and this is my first semester as...

Gardening Series Blog 1: Planning a Spring Garden
Hello and welcome to the first post of the UC|Sustainability Gardening Blog series! Although there was snow on the ground a couple weeks...

February in Reflection: Environmental Justice
In keeping with this semester's trend of spotlighting an important environmental topic each month, UC Sustainability events during the...

Life As An Advocate
If you were to tell my high school self that he would be working in sustainability when he got to college, he would have said you were...

January in Reflection: Regenerative Agriculture
This semester, the UC Sustainability team has set out to create a specific agenda for each month, with a dedication to giving as much...

How To Engage with UC Sustainability: Spring 2021 Edition
by Bridgette Stegman and Delaney Malloy While society continues to endure the challenges of a global pandemic, the University of...

Re-Imagining Uptown's Greener Future
This past Spring a multi-disciplinary group of students from UC looked at the impact our school has had on the evolution and growth of...
Ecotones: How My New Understanding of Sustainability Emerged
As an English major, I am overly fascinated by language. I am interested in the ways in which words confine ideas, change ideas, and...

Life as an Advocate: Bailey Lininger
Hello! My name is Bailey Lininger, and I am a third year Environmental Engineering major with certificates in Geographic Information...

Sustainable Gift Guide for the Holidays 🎁
While the holidays may look a little different this year, there are still plenty of opportunities to get into the holiday spirit with...
The 2020 UC Sustainability Summit Recap
Every year, UC hosts a student-organized Sustainability Summit where UC students can hear from a variety of speakers, create long-lasting...

The Environmental Literacy Certificate
Are you passionate about leading a greener life and enjoy learning about how we can leave a more positive impact on the world around us?...
Permaculture Principles pt. 2
Continuing with the concept of permaculture, a whole-system design process based on patterns in nature, the last six principles of...



















