UGA Celebrates Sustainability Day

The student group fears the University of Georgia may fire up its at the end of the month, but tomorrow, UGA’s taking time out to “celebrate achievements” and talk about how to create a more sustainable university.

Sponsored by the UGA Office of Sustainability and the Go Green Alliance, Campus Sustainability Day 2011 gets underway at 11 a.m. in the Tate Center Plaza with a fair. The Modern Skirts will play, and there will be tables full of information promoting sustainability initiatives from community and student groups. Those attending are encouraged to come via bus, foot, bike or carpool.

If you ride a bike, you can get it tuned up for free. And you can shop at the UGA Bookstore tomorrow for discounted items relating to sustainability.

From 2 to 4 p.m., an afternoon forum will be held in the UGA Chapel. Speaking will be Rutherford Seydel, an attorney,  conservationist, business leader and a managing partner of Davis, Pickren, Seydel and Sneed, LLP. He and his wife Laura Turner Seydel are co-founders of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, and sit on the boards of  EarthShare Georgia; The Nature Conservancy of Georgia; the North Georgia Water Planning District Board and the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.

Following the forum, a panel of UGA leaders will discuss the next steps in campus sustainability. Forum panelists will include John Gittleman, dean of the Odum School of Ecology; Scott Angle, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Daniel Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment and Design; Peter Brosius, director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research; and Rick Watson, director of the Center for Information Systems Leadership in the Terry College of Business.

A reception will follow the panel discussion.