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Celebrating Earth Day 2021 and Looking Ahead

April 22, 2021

Following the success of achieving STARS Gold in 2020, the UT Austin President’s Sustainability Steering Committee began its update of the campus 2016 Sustainability Master Plan.  The Committee recently approved draft goals to reflect the growing interest in sustainability across campus, just in time for Earth Day 2021.

Earth Day at 50: Still Seizing the Moment

April 20, 2020

Reflections on Earth Day from Planet Texas 2050.

Calling for Videos: UT Community Earth Day 50 Projects

April 15, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas—Texas Applied Arts, a unit within UT's College of Fine Arts, is seeking your assistance and engagement to complete their UT Community Earth Day 50 projects.

By collecting the voices and vision of the UT community as a virtual celebration of Earth Day at 50, their goal is to amplify the intentions and collective sustainability within the UT community, to create a space to gather with one another during this time of isolation, and to bear witness to this essential historic date in our nation’s history.

A Virtual Earth Month for Longhorns

March 31, 2020

This is a longhorn's guide to virtual Earth Month events during April 2020.

Fifty Years Later, a Look Back at UT’s Inaugural Earth Day Celebration

March 2, 2020

Fifty years ago, Suzanne O’Malley, BA ’74 organized the first Earth Day event at The University of Texas at Austin. This Aldalde feature looks back at that event and the changes over the last few decades.

Calling Campus to Waller Creek

Feb. 28, 2020

In a utilitarian room made of cinderblocks and plywood, designs from past theater productions—a brilliantly colored dragon mask, wire built into the muscles of a velociraptor—peer down onto a dozen students gathered around the scarred worktables. The students, part of the Texas Applied Arts program in Theatre and Dance, are listening to a presentation about how to delineate the level of the 100-year flood plain for their new interactive exhibit.

SUSPENDED: A Longhorn's Guide to Earth Day at 50

Feb. 10, 2020

SUSPENDED: Earth Day 2020 is the 50th anniversary for this event that celebrates the greening of campus.

In the News: Students Create "Monster" Habitat

Nov. 12, 2019

Created by a team of students from Texas Applied ARts, the Waller Creek Monster Habitat is one of the light sculptures that make up Waterloo Greenway Conservancy’s Creek Show, which started Nov. 7 at Waller Creek between 9th and 12th streets. 

Bike to UT Day 2019

April 24, 2019

In recognition of Earth Month, Parking and Transportation Services hosted Bike to UT Day on April 17.

Dark Tower Symbolizes Energy Efficiency

April 22, 2019

To highlight the university’s commitment to energy conservation, the UT Tower will be dark the night of Monday, April 22 as the world celebrates Earth Day.

Only the clock faces and aircraft warning lights will be illuminated, and all window shades will be closed.

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