Sustainability Courses at UCCS! |
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Summer 2021 | GES 4660/5660 | Urban Sustainability
Earn 3 credit hours | May 17-28, 2021
- Virtual course structure designed to be flexible but also offers interactive learning opportunities
- Combines scientific concepts with applied experience of practitioners
- Finishes early in the summer so you can do more with your summer!
- Meets GES capstone requirement
- Compass Curriculum Sustainability requirement
- Environment-Focused requirement for Sustainability Minor
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Bear Creek Dog Park | April Stools Day |
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April is just around the corner, and that means it’s almost April Stools Day! This great event is hosted by Bear Creek Dog Park and brings individual and community partners together to Scoop The Poop. This year’s event will be Saturday, April 3, 9-11am.
“We are excited to be a partner for this fun and important event,” said Dana Nordstrom, Community Outreach Coordinator for El Paso County Community Services.
“Pet waste is rampant in our communities, and it has a real impact on water quality, in addition to being stinky and unsightly. The simple everyday step of picking up that waste is critical for pet owners to take to keep our water safe and clean. This event does a great job of bringing attention to this issue, reminding pet owners and pet care-givers to make the responsible choice of scooping the poo every time, and the event is fun.”
The event is sponsored by The Friends for Bear Creek Dog Park, Heuberger Subaru and El Paso County Parks.
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Join Dr. Christine Biermann at the Virtual Lecture: Exploring our Urban Forest |
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In honor of Colorado Springs’ sesquicentennial anniversary, the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum unveiled a new exhibit, COS@150. This robust exploration of our community’s history and culture features 150 objects, illuminates 150 stories, commemorates 150 years. Throughout the commemoration year we invite you to explore these stories through a series of regional history lectures.
Join Dr. Christine Biermann, UCCS Geography & Environmental Studies and Will Dennis, COS Forester on a discussion of the urban tree canopy.
Saturday, April 10th | 2:00-3:00pm
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Clean-the-Stream | Adopt-a-Waterway
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Join us on Friday, April 23rd from 11am-1pm to help cleanup the Templeton Gap Floodway. UCCS adopted a segment of the creek through the City of Colorado Springs' adopt-a-waterway cleanup program. Three times a year, we invite volunteers to help us cleanup this precious resource.
This year, due to COVID-19 impacts, we are only allowing 50 UCCS volunteers total (25 at each section of the adopted waterway).
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Help Us Plant Trees at UCCS
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The City of Colorado Springs is celebrating 150 years!
As part of their Sesquicentennial celebrations, the City has challenged businesses, homeowners, organizations and schools to collectively plant 18,071 trees by July 2021 to honor General Palmer's legacy of land stewardship.
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PIPs Scholarship Challenge |
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This Earth Month, Mother Earth is giving some green back to you!
Complete 100 actions during the month of April to unlock $150 worth of scholarship funds AND keep the PIPs you earned from each action, too!

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UCCS Bicycle Advocacy Committee | Group Rides! |
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Check out these group rides hosted around COS+!
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Join the hyperloop research team, the Hyperfalcos! |
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The Hyperfalcos is a cross discipline, diverse research team competing in the hyperloop competition, hosted by SpaceX! We need members in our business, mechanical, and electrical teams; we welcome ALL majors and years, and there’s no need for prior knowledge, as we are prepared to teach anyone anything they need.
Together, we will build the fastest, most efficient passenger rail system possible!
The business team needs assistance with
- media promotion,
- bookkeeping,
- networking,
- sponsorship acquisition, and
- tech writing;
Mechanical needs assistance in
- energy efficiency,
- power delivery,
- aerodynamics,
- materials,
- manufacturing, and
- heat transfer;
Electrical needs assistance with
- induction research and machine coding,
- specifically controller code for Arduinos.
If any of that sounds appealing, shoot us an email! All are welcome.
Email,
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Green Action Fund | Submit a Proposal |
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The Green Action Fund committee wants your project applications! All funding opportunities are available to UCCS students, faculty and staff.
Do you have a project, event, program, campaign that would
- help reduce UCCS' carbon footprint?
- increase education on sustainable practices?
- increase student involvement in sustainability opportunities?
- leave a lasting legacy of good at UCCS?

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Due to COVID-19 regulations, the Sustainability Demonstration House and Office of Sustainability will 100% remote as of 11/30/2020. Please email sustain@uccs.edu with questions.
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