URI Sustainability

12/13/2022

Today is the last installment of the URI Fall 2022 Honors Colloquium lecture series, 'Just Good Food'! Watch online at 7pm tonight: web.uri.edu/hc/2022-just-good-food/

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Join Hope’s Harvest THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 for the last installment of the URI Fall 2022 Honors Colloquium lecture series! We will be gathering for a watch party and discussion of Dr. Ricardo Salvador’s lecture “The 21st Century Food System We Deserve”. Salvador is director of the Food & Environment Program at the . He will discuss working with citizens, scientists, economists and politicians to move the food system into one that grows and produces healthy foods while employing sustainable and equitable practices. The lecture is co-sponsored by the .

We are excited to learn from Salvador’s work and enter into conversation about how we can see sustainable and equitable practice enacted into our own local food networks. Tell your friends, and register for the event. (link in story)

10/28/2022

The application deadline for the URI Energy Fellows program is today! 🔌💡 Learn more about the paid internship here --> https://bit.ly/3gl1g1o

The application deadline for the URI Energy Fellows program is Oct. 28. The program offers full-year paid internships to undergraduate and graduate students from all academic majors. Students are selected for positions at URI, with industry partners and government agencies that address real world energy & sustainability challenges. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3gl1g1o

10/27/2022

Attention University of Rhode Island students looking for paid internships! The deadline to apply for the Rhode Island Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program is this Friday, October 28th!

Learn more here --> web.uri.edu/sustainability/r-i-agriculture-and-food-systems-fellows-program/

Attention University of Rhode Island students!

Paid internships are available for students studying environmental sciences, communications and marketing, business, finance, economics and more! The Rhode Island Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program is now accepting applications for the yearlong program that starts in January through to December 2023. Students passionate about careers centered on food – as producers, processors, policymakers, educators, advocates or communicators are encouraged to apply via Handshake (job listing: 6825387). Don’t sleep on this opportunity! For more information, or to contact us with any questions, visit: uri.edu/coopext/afsfp/forstudents

10/20/2022

In October's issue of Rhody Green Scene, we celebrate ! The Office of Sustainability talks with campus experts to learn about the history of energy-conservation initiatives at URI and energy-saving Bert devices that help our campus combat unnecessary energy waste. Happy Sustainability Month, everyone! 🍂

✨ Read more here --> bit.ly/GreenScene_Octb2022

10/03/2022

Join us for tomorrow night's colloquium with Sean Sherman! His restaurant was recently featured in as "Best New Restaurant in the US". Be there for what promises to be an interesting talk--live in Edwards or online @ 7pm visit our website http://uri.edu/hc 📷Nancy Bundt

09/26/2022

REMINDER! Agricultural and food justice advocate Vanessa García Polanco ’18 will present at the 2022 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium. Her talk, “The Exception and Not the Norm: Becoming an Agricultural and Food Justice Advocate" is the second presentation of the fall series, “Just Good Food,” which will be presented in person and streamed live (video links available on the day of each event by visiting: uri.edu/hc/2022-just-good-food). We hope to see you there!

09/22/2022

Join URI Graduate School of Oceanography on the University of Rhode Island Bay Campus for Science Saturday! Play some science games (and maybe win some prizes!) this Saturday, 9/24 from 10am-4pm.
➡️ https://web.uri.edu/gso/science-saturday/

09/20/2022

The first event of CFH's "Re:Envisioning Nature: An Environmental Humanities Lecture Series" happens this Wednesday, September 21st at 4pm!

Dr. Rob Nixon, of Princeton University, will virtually be giving his talk, "Slow Violence and Our Political Moment" which revisits the work from his 2013 book, 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘝𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘰𝘳.

For more information about Dr. Nixon's lecture and to register for the event, head here: https://bit.ly/3K4GNJ5

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09/07/2022

URI’s Free won a national sustainability award! Check out this year’s market tomorrow, Sept. 8! 🥕🧅🫑

✨ Read more here --> bit.ly/URIfarmersmarket

A team effort by staff from across campus at the University of Rhode Island has led to recent recognition by the National Association of College & University Food Services. URI recently received word that it won the Grand Prize Sustainability Award, for Outreach and Education, this year, recognizing...

09/02/2022

Check out the awesome sustainability research being done by the URI Graduate School of Oceanography's McMahon lab!

https://fb.watch/fhQUEJEbML/