For the sixth year, UAB is recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation for its work to nurture more than 4,400 healthy trees and engage students and employees in conservation.

Want that office event you’re planning to have a big personality while leaving a small environmental footprint? These recommendations from UAB Sustainability can help you make adjustments to ensure your events are as green as possible.

When the wrong items are discarded in recycling bins, the whole lot could get sent to the landfill. Let’s work together to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The Green Office Program can help employees identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption and waste and be better stewards of fiscal and environmental resources on campus.

Peggy Biga and Shantay Williams, two of more than 70 Sustainability Ambassadors, channel their passion for green practices into positive change within their units.

Melody Gillezeau, project manager for sustainable project development, wants UAB to set new standards to inspire Birmingham and beyond.

UAB, with its more than 4,400 trees, is being recognized as a Tree Campus USA for its work to promote healthy trees and conservation among students and employees.

Join UAB’s TRIP Lab for an information session with CommuteSmart 2-3:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in Hill Student Center 314.

Still deciding how to give back this year? The UAB Tree Fund helps maintain tree diversity, replace damaged or diseased trees and add to the overall tree population on campus.

An emphasis on community engagement, clean energy, grounds and waste management and more will help ensure UAB is an even better steward of financial and environmental resources and institutional role model.

Passionate about recycling, clean commutes and renewable energy? Join UAB Sustainability’s Ambassadors program and help ensure your  campus unit has an investment in and exposure to sustainability efforts across UAB.

The list sounds simple: Wear recyclable gloves. Unplug lab equipment. Defrost freezers. Use recyclable batteries. But if you have most all the labs in a major UAB research facility checking those boxes at once, it could mean big savings — in energy and dollars.

Employees who want to use one of the 16 newly opened electric car-charging stations can obtain a special permit from UAB Parking and Transportation. 

UAB has partnered with Alabama Power Co. to install employee-only electric vehicle-charging stations — adding to the eight public-access ones that already exist on campus.

Plants that attract bees, birds and butterflies are beautiful and necessary for sustaining native ecosystems.

A new incentive to buy and renovate homes in the Five Points, Glen Iris and Titusville communities helps the university, its employees and neighbors.

UAB Sustainability wants to help employees be greener with events throughout Earth Month dedicated to helping UAB faculty and staff become their most sustainable selves.

UAB’s Red Mountain Project enables faculty to help students understand how sustainability connects to the world around them. 

Celebrate Arbor Day and UAB’s dedication to Alabama’s native trees 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 23 on the Sterne Library Plaza. See eight new redbud trees planted on the library grounds and take home free tree seedlings.

The Cahaba River Society conferred its 2018 Watershed Conservation Development Award on UAB for its Express Parking Lot, which was designed and constructed to reduce stormwater runoff and reduce water pollution.

Eighteen research labs are the inaugural cohort of UAB’s Green Labs initiative, a plan to reduce energy consumption in more than 2,000 UAB labs. Apply to be a part of it.

UAB is a living laboratory for “modeling green practices” says the U.S. Department of Education in naming it a Green Ribbon school.

UAB employees who walk, bike, telecommute or carpool to work can earn up to $70 in three months with CommuteSmart, plus $25 gift cards every quarter.

Birmingham’s electric vehicle drivers can recharge at one of eight charging ports in three different stations on campus.

Facilities team is streamlining water consumption and finding creative ways to offset needs. 

The UAB Green Labs Program will help conserve resources and reduce hazardous chemicals without compromising research integrity or safety. 

Apply by March 16 for the Red Mountain Project faculty workshop, which will help participants incorporate sustainability into their courses. Ten faculty fellows will receive a stipend of $1,000 for a new or altered course syllabus.

Earth Day is April 22, during final exams, so UAB Sustainability will host a series of events April 6-10, including the Arbor Day celebration, where you can snag a free tree, and the UAB Earth Month Festival.

Some $18,000 is being awarded for projects to improve recycling, reduce waste, promote alternative energy and create a bike-repair station on the Campus Green.

Apply by March 20 for the new Red Mountain Project. As many as 10 faculty fellows will be selected to receive a stipend of $1,000 for a new or altered course syllabus.

By reusing casework and furniture, the School of Medicine and Facilities Division are cutting costs, completing projects more quickly and being kinder to the environment. 

The Sustainability Investment Fund will provide grants to students to implement programs that make UAB more environmentally friendly. Submissions are due Nov. 12.

Fill your water bottle at any of the six refilling stations across campus. Stations can be added to any building by request.

A tool for reducing food waste and an oil-recycling program will decrease costs and the toll on the environment. 

A bioswale — a runoff system included in the design of AEIVA — helps slow and filter stormwater before it enters the storm sewer. 

Julie Price, Ph.D., UAB’s inaugural sustainability coordinator, is out to prove that sustainability is more than recycling or switching off lights when you leave a room, and that the benefits go far beyond the bottom line and good public relations. 

Learn about sustainability in the home, workforce, Alabama and the world during campus events planned April 3-11.