Lifestyle, Health, & Kids

• Why Should Health Care Professionals Care About Climate Change? – Dr. Amy Collins, a practicing emergency medicine physician, health care sustainability professional, and senior clinical advisor for Health Care Without Harm shared spoke about why health care professionals should care about climate change.  (56min)
• Practicing Sustainability with Kids – Learn easy ways you can practice sustainability with your kids in this quick video. (10min)
• Environmental, Cultural, Health, & Financial Impacts of Menstruation & Actions We Can Take – Learn about the cultural, health, and financial challenges women face as well as the environmental impacts of menstruation (60min).
• Caring for People & Planet Through Social Enterprises – Social enterprises are businesses that utilize market-based approaches to address social and/or environmental issues.  Jenna Babbitt, Director of Social Enterprise for the Center for Transforming Lives, spoke about how social enterprises can improve both human and environmental health in various ways.  

Food & Gardening

• Cooking 101: Basic Cooking Skills for a Healthier You and Healthier Planet – By learning basic cooking skills, you can decrease your consumption of processed food which has positive health and environmental impacts.  Jeka Sisco, Blue Zones, performs a cooking demo to show you basic skills with a plant-based meal. (53min)
• Growing Food as Activism – Explore why food sovereignty is essential in addressing racial inequalities.  (37 min)
• Sustainability in the Kitchen – What we eat and how we buy, eat, and store our food affects our own health and the health of the planet.  Learn ways you can be more sustainable with your food. (10min)
• Food Waste & Composting: A Conversation with Cowboy Compost – Learn about why food waste matters, why composting is important, and opportunities available here in Fort Worth.  (47min)

Sprouting Change: You, Food, & the Environment

A series of educational and how-to videos for the Sprouting Change: You, Food, and the Environment grant project.  

• How to Grow Your Own Sprouts – Learn how to grow your own nutritious sprouts in an easy, convenient, inexpensive, and quick way.  Kits will be available at the HSC Earth Day Event! (6min)
• Sprout Recipes – Learn a couple recipes using sprouts. (3min)
• Composting 101 – Composting is one of the best ways to reduce your impact on the environment.  This video details how composting works and how to build a compost pile. (3min)
• Food Storage 101 – Learn how to properly store your food to extend the life of food and reduce waste.  (5min)
• Container Gardening 101 – Learn how to grow edible plants in small spaces using 1, 2, and 5 gallon containers.  (3min)

Reduce – Reuse – Recycle

• Recycling 101 and Putting the Other R’s Into Practice – Here we discuss the basics of recycling including what we recycle on campus and how you can practice the other R’s – Reducing and Reusing.  (12min)
• Greening Your Closet & Helping Those In Need in Tarrant County – Learn how to make your wardrobe more sustainable as well as how to help women and children experiencing poverty here in Tarrant County (32min).

At HSC

• 10 Tips from YOUR Sustainability Committee – HSC’s Sustainability Committee was established in 2012.  Here representatives from the committee give 10 tips on how to be more sustainable.  (5min)
• Sustainability in Our Labs – The Lab Efficiency Action Program (LEAP) encourages labs to be more sustainable.  Learn about the program and hear from researchers across campus.  (4min)
• Coming Back to Campus the Sustainable Way – As HSC moves toward being more in person from the pandemic, why not come back in a better, more efficient and sustainable way?  Learn 10 tips for coming back to campus the sustainable way.  (8min)