Planning your Sustainable Summer? Be sure to check out the events below. Click on the title for event details.
July
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1 Social Media 101 The GSRC’s organizing pathway provides students with the tools, training, mentorship and other resources they need to take their ideas and put them into action.The summer series of workshops offered in the GSRC organizing pathway provide students practical opportunities to hone their interpersonal skills and professional development through a blend of innovative training techniques.Workshops are free and open to current UC Irvine students. GSRC staff and community partners deliver the trainings, which take place at the GSRC office.Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.Location: Global Sustainability Resource Center: G459 (Fourth Floor, Student Center South)Invite Your Friends on Facebook |
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| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 Foodscapes 1: Seeds Learn more about harvesting, storing, germinating, trading, cooking, and eating seeds. Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Anthill Village Community Garden at UC Irvine (directions) Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite Your Friends on Facebook |
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| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 FUNdraising for your idea The GSRC’s organizing pathway provides students with the tools, training, mentorship and other resources they need to take their ideas and put them into action.The summer series of workshops offered in the GSRC organizing pathway provide students practical opportunities to hone their interpersonal skills and professional development through a blend of innovative training techniques.Workshops are free and open to current UC Irvine students. GSRC staff and community partners deliver the trainings, which take place at the GSRC office.Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.Location: Global Sustainability Resource Center: G459 (Fourth Floor, Student Center South)Invite Your Friends on Facebook |
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| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 Foodscapes 2: Food Stories In this workshop we will challenge the way we think about and interact with food by raising awareness about the problems with our current food system through creative forms of expressive storytelling.Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Aldrich Park, UC Irvine (directions) Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
24 | 25 Gardening Tools This class will feature a discussion and demonstration of gardening tools. Safety when handling tools.This course will be taught by the OC Master Gardeners.Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Location: Verano Place, UC Irvine (directions) Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
| 26 | 27 Foodscapes 3: Evolving System This workshop will feature a tour of an Aquaponics system and will explore how to find wild edible native plants.Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Arboritum at UC Irvine (directions) Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
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August
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| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Summer Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Level 1 Introduction SISL: Level 1 is a 3-day residential sustainability leadership program. Select incoming first-year and transfer students will have a chance to meet fellow student leaders and start building leadership skills while learning about sustainability on the UCI campus and around the world. The program includes workshops on sustainability, personal leadership development, fun team building activities and a deep dive into GSRC’s Sustainability Pathways.This opportunity is available to incoming freshmen and transfer students only. |
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| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 Foodscapes 4: Real vs Processed This workshop will show how to break our dependency on processed food by investigating the contents and back story of what we eat. We will read labels and cook classic ‘convenience’ food products using whole, natural ingredients from scratch.Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Anteater Recreation Center, UC Irvine (directions) and Trader Joe’s Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
14 | 15 Soil Fertility Management This workshop explores building and maintaining a garden, learning about soil types, soil ph, nutrients and fertility management.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Anthill Village Community Garden at UC Irvine (directions)Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 Foodscapes 5: Following the Route We will explore the route that fruit and vegetables take to travel from seed to plate in our region.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Tanaka Farms -5380 3/4 University Dr., Irvine, CA Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
21 Summer Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Level 1 IntroductionSISL: Level 1 is a 3-day residential sustainability leadership program. Select incoming first-year and transfer students will have a chance to meet fellow student leaders and start building leadership skills while learning about sustainability on the UCI campus and around the world. The program includes workshops on sustainability, personal leadership development, fun team building activities and a deep dive into GSRC’s Sustainability Pathways.This opportunity is available to incoming freshmen and transfer students only. |
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| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 Foodscapes 6: Preserving and Fermentation We will explore pickling and canning techniques using traditional preserving and fermentation techniques to encourage more self sufficiency within our current food system. This will be a hands on learning exchange.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Anteater Recreation Center, UC Irvine (directions)Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
28 | 29 Native Food Forest Find out how to create a permaculture native food forest.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Location: UC Irvine Arboretum (directions)Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook Foodscapes 7: Food Equity(two-day series) Procure and create the same dish several ways, using different budgets and through different lenses of social and economic access to food. Investigate the history/ route of the ingredient before it landed in our possession.This is a two-part workshop. Participants are asked to attend both days.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.Time: 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: UC Irvine Arboretum (directions) Cost: Please bring $20 to cover supplies for the two-day workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
30Foodscapes 7: Food Equity (two-day series)Procure and create the same dish several ways, using different budgets and through different lenses of social and economic access to food. Investigate the history/ route of the ingredient before it landed in our possession.This is a two-part workshop. Participants are asked to attend both days.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.Time: 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: UC Irvine Arboretum (directions) Cost: Please bring $20 to cover supplies for the two-day workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
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September
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Plant Propagation Learn different techniques of plant propagation: cuttings, seed, direct planting and layering.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures.Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Location: Palo Verde Community Garden (location tentative) (directions and where to purchase parking permits) Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
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| 13 | 14 | 15Summer Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Level 2 Intensive Leadership Training SISL: Level 2 is a 5.5 day residential experiential learning program for select current student and community leaders. It provides student and community sustainability leaders the skills for transformation, systems thinking, community visioning, and action planning.The retreat allows participants to develop not just sustainability-related knowledge but also the values, skills, and attitudes to allow them to be effective facilitators of transformational change and leaders of youth-driven sustainability initiatives on campus and beyond. This experience is a deep dive into what it really means to live, learn, lead and love sustainability.Applicants must have a proven involvement (minimum 1 year) with sustainability-related issues, education, and/or actions on or around campus. Prior affiliation with one of the sustainability-related student organizations and/or the GSRC is desirable. |
16 Foodscapes 8: Social Diversity Working to foster diversity in the food justice movement, we will meet with local food justice leaders from underrepresented communities and create a meal of traditional cuisine using ecologically responsible ingredients and practices.The Campus as a Living Lab workshop series is designed to help students, staff, faculty, and community members build sustainable living skills in the areas of growing, preparing, and producing food through hands-on-experiences and learning journeys.The workshops include practical skills such as seed saving, gardening basics, preserving, and fermentation as well as more in-depth training in the seed-to-plate approach to sustainable food systems and cultures. Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Anteater Recreation Center, UC Irvine (directions) Cost: Please bring $10 to cover supplies for the workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds.Facilitators can accept cash or a check made out to UC Regents.Invite your friends on Facebook |
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