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The University of Texas at Dallas

Sustainability Newsletter

October 2025

Campus Sustainability Month

UTD Celebrates Campus Sustainability!

UT Dallas recently came together to celebrate Campus Sustainability Month: a time dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of environmental responsibility and collective action. Students, staff, and faculty participated in events promoting waste reduction, green commuting, and energy conservation, highlighting how small everyday choices can make a big impact. From volunteer cleanups to educational activities, the celebration reflected UTD’s commitment to creating a more sustainable campus and inspiring a culture of stewardship year-round.
A pair of images from Pocket Prairie Workday. The left image shows a closeup of an Eco Rep collecting seeds in a small container. The right image shows five students gathered around a picnic table, separating seeds from their plants and collecting them in tubs.

Pocket Prairie Workday

As part of Campus Sustainability Month, volunteers gathered for the Pocket Prairie Workday to help maintain one of UTD’s most unique green spaces. The Pocket Prairie serves as a living example of North Texas’s native ecosystems, supporting pollinators, conserving water, and promoting biodiversity right on campus. Students and staff rolled up their sleeves to remove invasive species, harvested basket flower and fire wheel seeds (pictured above), and learned about sustainable landscaping practices. The event showed how hands-on conservation efforts can make a lasting difference in preserving our natural environment.

Sustainability Month Stewards Training

Our campus sustainability stewards recently completed their fall training, equipping them with the knowledge and tools to champion eco-friendly practices across UTD. From waste diversion and composting to energy conservation and community engagement, the training prepared stewards to act and inspire others to make a difference. Together, they are helping build a greener and more sustainable campus, one initiative at a time.
Three scenes from Monarch Fest: Making butterfly art, students carrying butterfly nets, and a student learning about pollinators at an educational table.

Monarch Fest

UT Dallas celebrated Monarch Fest with a vibrant event dedicated to raising awareness about monarch butterfly conservation and the importance of native habitats. Students and staff learned about the monarchs’ remarkable migration journey and the crucial role pollinators play in our ecosystems. The event featured educational booths, native plant displays, and activities that encouraged participants to support pollinator-friendly practices at home and on campus. Monarch Fest highlighted UTD’s ongoing commitment to biodiversity and environmental stewardship.
Four different tables at the Campus Sustainability Month Fair.

CSM Fair

UT Dallas celebrated Campus Sustainability Month with its third annual Sustainability Fair on October 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The event invited students, faculty, and staff to learn, create, and take action for a more sustainable future. Booths included a variety of sustainable organizations across the campus, such as Break Free from Plastic, Dr. June Jones.

Attendees enjoyed activities such as making bee motels, learning about Comet Composting, testing their knowledge with buzz-worthy bee trivia, and taking home sustainable swag. The fair brought the campus community together to celebrate innovation, environmental awareness, and collective impact.
Two photos of students working at Luna Farm.

Luna Farm Workday

Volunteers came together for another successful month of Luna Farm Workdays, dedicating their Saturday mornings to cultivating and caring for UTD’s sustainable farm space. Participants rolled up their sleeves and got to work mulching the field to suppress weeds and washed and dried gloves, prepping the farm for the winter ahead.

Currently, there are carrots, peas, radishes, and beets growing, and are expected to be harvested in the next month, and they will all be donated to the Comet Cupboard.

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Text which reads “Office of Sustainability Halloween Campus Cleanup. As part of Campus Sustainability Month, let’s keep UTD clean this Halloween by volunteering with us for a campus cleanup! 9:30-11:30 a.m. October 31. Meet outside UTD Bookstore. Feel Free to wear a costume! Sign up at Engage UTD.”.

Halloween Campus Clean Up

To wrap up Campus Sustainability Month, the Office of Sustainability has a Halloween Campus Clean Up on October 31 from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. We will be meeting outside UTD Bookstore. You are encouraged to wear a spooky costume. Help us keep our campus boo-tiful!

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The Greenhouse

Updates to the UT Dallas Eco Rep Blog
Brochures full of information on pollinators.

Celebrating Campus Sustainability Month
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Luna Farm Eco-Rep Gargi Kanugo writes about Sustainability at UTD during Campus Sustainability Month.

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