Grant Opportunities • Environmental Workshops • Forest Bathing |
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Welcome back to campus Blue Jays! The Blue Jay’s Green Guide is back, setting the tone for a semester full of opportunities to get involved with sustainability on campus and beyond. This September, learn about exciting opportunities to fund your sustainability initiatives, from Campus as a Living Lab to the Pava Center’s Social Innovation Lab. As the semester gets underway, this edition features two new workshops on offer at Hopkins, as well as clean ups, citizen science, and climate writing opportunities in the community. You can also keep up throughout the semester with the Office of Sustainability’s new events page, and catch the latest news between editions here. Stay tuned for big news on JHU’s Climate Action and Sustainability Plan in next month’s issue.
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Meet the Office of Sustainability Team! |
Throughout August, the Office of Sustainability has been meeting students and faculty at orientations across Hopkins campuses, including the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Nursing. These events are a great opportunity to explore how university-wide sustainability initiatives can fit into your interests and learn more about Office of Sustainability programs. Keep an eye out for us at your next campus event!
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Campus as Living Lab Program Awards Inaugural Grants |
In its inaugural grant cycle, the JHU Campus as a Living Lab program is awarding grants for 11 sustainability research and teaching projects to advance its mission of leveraging JHU to test scalable innovations. The program received overwhelming interest from students, researchers, and course instructors seeking to investigate sustainability across JHU’s many schools and divisions, including the Homewood Campus, East Baltimore Campus, and the Applied Physics Lab.
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| Pava Center: Apply to the Social Innovation Lab by September 22 |
The Social Innovation Lab (SIL) accelerates leaders and ventures in building innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions that work towards a healthy and prosperous world. Open to any applicant from the greater Baltimore area, we aim to see mission-driven ventures from both the Johns Hopkins ecosystem and the surrounding communities develop into thriving ventures with measurable impacts. Teams who complete the experience are eligible for a $5,000 grant stipend and offers the opportunity to win a $15,000 cohort prize.
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This semester, organizer Eric Jackson and artist Jordan Tierney are collaborating with professors at Homewood to offer two workshop opportunities for students to think about what sustainable, just communities might look like, in Baltimore and beyond. Both courses are open to undergraduate and graduate students.
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The Future of Here: An Art and Anthropology Studio |
AS.070.361 (01) | Friday 1:30 – 4:00 PM |
This class is an occasion for speculative anthropology, a chance to reimagine this place (an American city on the Jones Falls river) in a future beyond the bustle of our fossil-fueled present. The class will be co-taught by anthropologist Anand Pandian and visual artist Jordan Tierney. We will nurture our imaginations through experiential practices of observing nature, collecting materials, and assembling artifacts. What we build will serve as the core of a spring 2025 local museum exhibition we will plan together.
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Resurrection by Jordan Tierney
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Black Land and Food Sovereignty & Praxis: An Environmental Justice Workshop |
AS.145.400 | Monday 1:30 – 4:00 PM |
This course is designed to introduce and advance perspectives on radical approaches and analyses on the state of food and food systems, while learning about historic and contemporary examples of movement toward freedom and self-determination through land and food. The course is co-taught by author, organizer, educator, and filmmaker Eric Jackson (Black Yield Institute) and anthropologist Nicole Labruto (Johns Hopkins University). Class sessions will take place each week in Cherry Hill in south Baltimore, transportation to and from Homewood included. Email nlabruto@jhu.edu for an application.
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Stormy Weather, by William Connolly, Professor Emeritus (Political Science) |
Published as of today, September 3, 2024!
From the back cover: "Composed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, Stormy Weather explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and earth scientists until late in the day."
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Inaugural Art Exhibit: The Crow’s Nest, Environmental Justice Incubator |
From the Crow's Nest: "This exhibit will showcase approximately 20 selected works from artists with powerful messages on the climate emergency, its impact on ecosystems and communities, and what we can do about it. Each in their own way, these paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures enable us to break down the ecological crisis, help us process our feelings about it, and challenge our preconceived notions on how to address it."
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Grand Rounds: Peri-Operative Sustainability
With Dr. Jodi Sherman
Sept 5 | 7:00 AM | Hurd Hall
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Vegan Block Party
With Veggie Table and Clean Air Baltimore
Sept 14 | 3:00 PM | Center Plaza
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"The Eighth Moon"
Presented by Jennifer Kabat, with Paul Chaat Smith
Sept 19 | 7:00 PM | Red Emma’s
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This is my first year living in the dorms; what are my options for recycling and composting? |
Each dorm room also has a standard recycling bin that accepts cans, bottles, and certain plastics. Dorms also have standard composting bins centralized in hallways, which accept food waste and certain paper
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products. All of the to-go packaging from the dining halls, including the utensils and paper coffee cups, is compostable—but if you're ever unsure, you can check for the #7 in chasing arrows or for the word "compostable" on the bottom of the container.
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This year, student organization Sustainable Hopkins Innovative Projects (SHIP) has partnered up with the Homewood Office of Recycling and Housing operations recycling to offer Terracycle Zero-Waste Boxes in all Hopkins Residence Halls. Terracycle specializes in recycling materials not typically accepted by local facilities, including items with complex composition like beauty products, toothbrushes, food packaging, and more. Starting this Fall, you can recycle your bathroom waste--personal care packaging, bath/shower accessories, empty shampoo bottles, toothbrush holders, and more—in the cardboard Terracycle boxes, which will then be sent to a central Terracycle facility for specialized processing. To learn more about Terracycle’s recycling process and how it differs from your local facility, you can watch this short video.
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