ECO Moonlight Jam
Wednesday, April 20 at 6 p.m.
Come celebrate Moonlight Jam with us on this very special ECO evening with patches, tea infusers, glass jars, and reusable totes to win! Join us on Wednesday, April 20 at 6 p.m. at the Lakeside Patio
The University has been recognized as a Tree Campus USA by the nationally renown organization Arbor Day Foundation for the seventh time in a row. The program will start on Monday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gifford Arboretum Stone Circle, with a tour of edible trees in the Arboretum, a tasting stop at the sustainability garden. Don't miss the free concert from Frost School of Music Resident Moon band, at 6.30 pm.
Finger food will be served. Event sponsored by ECO Agency.
Premios Verdes are tthe most relevant sustainability festival in the region which, each year, awards, gives visibility and creates networks among the best 500 social and environmental projects in Ibero-America: "Premios Verdes: Exhibe-Conecta-Premia a los 500 mejores proyectos sociales y ambientales de Iberoamérica". Learn more
We can all act on climate! On Thursday, April 21 from 12-1 p.m., our panelists will share their journey via various roles—including faculty, lawyer, artist, and high schooler—in the fight for a sustainable future. Our panelists include:
Come celebrate Moonlight Jam with us on this very special ECO evening with patches, tea infusers, glass jars, and reusable totes to win! Join us on Wednesday, April 20 at 6 p.m. at the Lakeside Patio
The University of Miami graduate students are very much engaged when it comes to the future of our planet. On Thursday, April 21 at 6 p.m., the following organizations will discuss their role in making The U part of the solution: the Green Grad Group, the Sustainability Initiative at RSMAS, the Sustainability Club at Miami Herbert Business School, the Environmental Law Society at Miami Law, and the Green Student Committee at Miller.
Join us on Friday, April 22 from 11:20-11:45 a.m., on Earth Day for our traditional Hug The Lake event and Roberta "Bosey" Fulbright Foote award ceremony to honor a member of the UM community—faculty, staff, student, or trustee—who has made a meaningful and lasting contribution to the beauty, humanity, and future of the campus.
On Friday, April 22 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., pass by the Lakeside Patio, grab a delicious vegan empanada, and learn about the great work ECO and community partners are doing to lessen our carbon footprint. The ECO sustainable purchasing committee will feature reusable Brewbike coffee cups and plastic-free detergent slips. Don't forget about your ECO giveaway!
Adapted for the stage by Sandra Riley, Woman's Club of Coconut Grove. Read by Sandra Riley and T.L. Brown. Meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas at various stages of her life in a special dramatic performance of "Three Ages of Marjory". This event is free and open to the public at the Kislak Center.
The University hosts 'Canes Day of Service for alumni, families, and friends of the U to participate in a local service project to give back to their respective communities. Hosted by our alumni-led 'Canes Communities, these service projects support the University of Miami's mission to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. Join us on Saturday, April 23 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. for our local service project, in partnership with Virginia Key Outdoor Center, as we help improve the quality of our beaches and protect our marine life with a beach cleanup.
Take part in the Coral Gables Recycling Drive-Thru on Saturday, April 23 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. to drop off your old 14-gallon recycling bins, recycle your old electronics and large cardboard boxes, dispose of your household hazardous waste, shred your sensitive documents, and donate your "lightly/gently used" clothing.
Citizen Climate Lobby Miami is collaborating with the Coral Gables Art Cinema for a special Earth Day screening of The Human Element, a film by environmental photographer and CCL Advisory Board member, James Balog. (trailer) THE HUMAN ELEMENT is a magnum opus on the human impact on our planet—from the threat of animal extinction to catastrophic wildfires, global warming as visualized through glacier melt, and increased ferocity of historic floods and storms – James Balog presents four decades of his research and photography in this environmental call to arms. Balog also created the Oscar and Emmy nominated film, Chasing Ice. Tickets are just $4, to offset cinema operations.
Artist, activist, poet, and ordained minister Reverend Houston Cypress serves as the head of Love the Everglades, an organization devoted to the development of platforms and initiatives for environmental protection and cultural preservation. Cypress also uses his platform to speak out as an advocate for two-spirited and non-binary gender peoples, cultural preservation, business development, and sovereignty. Cypress acts as a cultural ambassador, fostering meaningful exchanges between his society of native clans and the Miami community. Recently he presented a lecture entitled "Decolonizing Gender, Land, and Spirit" at ICA Miami as a way of connecting with the environment and cultivating more diverse and inclusive communities. Dr. Mauro Galetti is a tropical ecologist at the University of Miami and Director of the Gifford Arboretum. His current research centers broadly on the effects of animal extinction on key ecological, evolutionary and ecosystem processes. Dr. Galetti has intensively worked in understanding how trophic cascades propagates in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems. He has long experience in tropical forests in Brazil. Dr. Galetti is also responsible for auditing one of the largest dataset on the Biodiversity of the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Delaney is a fourth generation Miamian and splits her time between the cosmopolitan city of a few million people where she was born and No Name Key, a 1,000-acre island in the Florida Keys, where her family owns a solar powered home. She is a Foote Fellow and Singer Scholar at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science where she’s pursuing a double major in Marine Science and Coastal Geology, as well as a minor in Climate Science and Policy. Delaney is the founder and CEO of The Sink or Swim Project, an NGO focused on climate education and advocacy, as well as its website miamisearise.com, where she publishes a popular blog. She is a Board Member for The CLEO Institute, a Dream in Green Youth Ambassador, a Celebration of the Seas Youth Ambassador and sits on the Miami-Dade County Committee of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities. Former service roles include acting as the Director of Sustainability for the Miami Beach Pop Music Festival and member of Philippe Cousteau's EarthEcho International Youth Leadership Council. She has authored and illustrated three children’s books about the environment in and around No Name Key, as well as a comic adventure book on climate change entitled Where Did All The Polar Bears Go?. She has given a popular TEDx Talk at the Adrienne Arsht Center, appeared with actor/musician Jack Black on the National Geographic Channel's Years of Living Dangerously, with former Vice President Al Gore on MTV's An Inconvenient Special, and with explorer Philippe Cousteau on his Xploration Awesome Planet on FOX. She has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, co-founded the March for Science Miami, helped author and implement a landmark mandatory solar power law in the City of South Miami, and is the lead Plaintiff in the Reynolds vs. State of Florida climate change lawsuit. Delaney has been honored with the George Eastman Young Leader’s Scholarship from the University of Rochester, the Gloria Barron Scholarship Prize for Young Heroes, the Broward County Green Leader Award, The CLEO Institute Leadership Council, The Miami Herald's Silver Knight in Social Science and the inaugural National Geographic Teen Service Award.
Reverend Houston Cypress
Keynote Speaker
Mauro Galetti
Presenter, Orchid Planting in the Gifford Arboretum with Dr. Galetti
Delaney Reynolds
Speaker