The Summer Sessions 2009 theme is sustainability. We all share this planet. There are a myriad of ways that each of us can contribute to sustaining a good quality of life and preserving the earth's resources so that this incredible place will be here for future generations. Some practical ideas are...

May 28 • June 25 • July 30 • August 27

UAF’s Sustainability Campus Task Force (SCTF ) invites you to bike to campus on the last Thursday of May, June, July and August. On these days there will be SCTF volunteers available to provide free bike tune-ups for those participating in the Bike to Campus Activities. There will also be a local foods barbeque on those days from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donations welcome. at the SCTF website http://www.uafsctf.com.

Conserve

• Install foam gaskets behind light switch plates and electrical outlets, to reduce heat leaks.
• Water and energy waste by using the shortest wash cycle on your washing machine. Also use warm or cold wash instead of hot. For extra dirty loads use the cold water pre-soak. Hot water wash is only necessary for oily or greasy stains.

Reuse

• Carry a reusable mug and a water bottle.
• Carry reusable shopping bags.
• The Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Shelter accepts newspaper for reuse. Call 459-1451 for more information.

Recycle

• The Fairbanks Wal-Mart Super Center accepts the following items for recycling: • Any plastics • Aluminum cans • Paper Call 451-9900 for more information.
• The front of the ACS phone book has a table of where and what can be recycled in Fairbanks.
• Recycle ink/toner cartridges at ASUAF Recycling (Phone: 474-6037).
• Replace ink/toner cartridge with one that is remanufactured in Fairbanks. Call 474-6037 for more information.

• See http://www.uaf.edu/fs/parkingservices.html for more information.

• Learn to preserve the food that you grow or catch.
• Go to the Cooperative Extension Service website at http://www.uaf.edu/ces/ and click on the publications link. You’ll find a wealth of information on long-term food storage, including canning, freezing, pickling, and more.

• The Future of Food (2004)
• The Real Dirt on Farmer Joe (2005)
• Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
• GasHole (2008)
• The Lorax (2003)
• The 11th Hour (2007)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• The Story of Stuff (20 minute movie you can see at www.storyofstuff.com)
• Flow: For the Love of Water (2008)

• Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable by Simon Bell and Stephen Morse. (1999) Earthscan.
• The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres Edwards. (2005) New Society Publishers.
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Originally published in 1962 and reprinted in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with essays by Edward O. Wilson and Linda Lear.
• Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Harrison Walker and David Andrew Salt. (2006) Island Press.
• The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation by Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare. (1999) New Society Publishers.
• Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman E. Daly. (1996) Beacon Press.
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. (2000) Little Brown & Company.
• The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices by Sarah James and Torbjörn Lahti. (2004) New Society Publishers.
• Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Mathis Wackernagel and William E. Rees. (1996) New Society Publishers
• Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution by Auden Schendler (2009) PublicAffairs.
• Triple Bottom Line: How Today’s Best-Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success – And How You Can Too by Andrew Savitz. (2006) Jossey- Bass/Wiley.
• Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability by Greg Horn. (2006) Freedom Press
• Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, free at www.earth-policy.org David Suzuki’s Green Guide by David Suzuki and David Boyd. (2008) Greystone Books.
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin. (2008) Pantheon.
• The Earth Remains Forever: Generations at a Crossroads by Rob Jackson. (2002) University of Texas Press.
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert. (2006) Bloomsbury. The Lorax by Dr. Suess. (1971) Random House.
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. (2002) Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
• Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen. (1997) Simon and Schuster.
• The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability by Ed Bernard and Jora Young. (1996) New Society Publishers. 240 pages.
• The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation by John William Bennett. (2005) Transaction Publishers.