UA Little Rock 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. 

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.

“Sustainability is always about Earth stewardship, using resources in a responsible way. Using the three pillar model of sustainability, economics, society and environment.” said Dr. Michael DeAngelis, associate professor geology at UA Little Rock and chair of the Sustainability Committee. “You 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’s about inspiring people to not only think about sustainability but to live it.”

Onsite vendors will include Arkansas Quail Forever, Armored Art, Bright and Bone, City of Little Rock Sustainability, Forever Flowers, Fortune Francos, Friends of Fourche Creek/Keep Little Rock Beautiful, Goodwill Industries of Arkansas, Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority, Man of the Red Earth, Meadowcliff Honey, Murder Farm, Sacred Earth Gifts, Southern Twisted Tea & Zeps Garden LLC, UA Little Rock Campus Garden, UA Little Rock Campus Recreation, UA Little Rock Career Services, and UA Little Rock Sustainability Committee. 

“The Sustainability Day event has been going on for years, and it does not happen without the hard work from the committee,” DeAngelis said.  “The committee is a good mix of people from around the campus. Faculty, staff, and students come together to bring Sustainability Day together.”

For more information on Sustainability Day, contact [email protected] or visit ualr.edu/sustainability.