Earth Week is coming – Next week, April 22nd through 28th! There’s even events on the weekend, and you can volunteer with activities!
Everything you need to know about the upcoming Earth Week events on campus for Cascadia! All events listed here are open to the public, staff, students on Cascadia College/UW Bothell Campus! Please come and enjoy!
Tuesday, April 16th (Pre-Earth Week)
6:00-8:00pm Cecilia Vicuña: Living Poems Talk
Location: Discovery Hall, DISC-061
Free Entry, Register Here.
In this performance lecture, Cecilia Vicuña speaks, chants and tells stories of her experience coming across the destruction of poetry in the land. To experience one of Vicuña’s oral performances is to both feel and hear the chasms of all your previous understandings gently opening as she threads physical gestures, singing, chants and vocalizations of multiple languages into a space; a poem.
Monday, April 22nd! – Start of earth Week
TIFO Hanging Location: Garages
Join the UWB Sustainability Club in hanging their TIFO banner in celebration of Earth Week 2019!
Event Sponsor: UWB Sustainability Club
12:00 – 1:30pm – Garbage Sort
Location: Promenade/Plaza
Learn how our garbage, waste, recycling, and compost are sorted, and see what waste is being thrown away on campus!
1:30 – 3:00pm – Zero Waste Living Talk
Location: UW1-020
Founder of One Glass Jar Siobhan McComb will be giving a free presentation on the rewards of living a healthier and less wasteful lifestyle!
Tuesday, April 23rd!
11:00-1:30pm
Location: Campus Farm
Join us in planting the first vegetables of the season. Come learn which species do well in our area and farming techniques from our seasoned experts to help in making this year’s crop the best yet!
Event Sponsor: Cascadia College and UWB joint Farm Management
Wednesday, April 24th!
11:00 – 2:30pm – Sustainability Festival
Location: Promenade/Plaza
Nearly 50 community partners and on-campus organizations will be participating in this year’s Sustainability Festival! “What will YOU do this summer?” Featuring live bands and activities through out both plaza and promenade over both campuses.
Event Sponsor: UWB Sustainability Office
11:00 – 2:30pm – Art Walk
Location: Promenade/Plaza
The UWB Sustainability Club will be hosting an interactive Art Walk during this year’s Sustainability Festival and leading a scavenger hunt around campus!
Event Sponsor: UWB Sustainability Club
11:00-2:00pm “It’s not Dirt!” – Soils Lab
Location: Cascadia Trailer, Near Food Forest
Come learn about soils in Cascadia’s trailer with Professor Midori Sakura:
Are you concerned about climate change? Do you like to eat? Does clean water sound wonderful to you?
Come learn about soils and the vast number of critical functions they provide at an interactive display in Mo (our college trailer near the Food Forest) and paint your own bookmark using natural soil pigments!
2:30 – 4:00pm – Grow Your Own Food Event
Location: Food Forest
Learn about how to grow herbs and vegetables from inside their apartment, as well as how to regrow common produce such as lettuce, potatoes, and garlic! Students will leave with their own starter seeds and information on to grow harvest their new plants.
Event Sponsor: Kodiak Cave, Cascadia
Thursday, April 25th
6:00 – 9:00pm – An Inconvenient Sequel – Free Movie Showing
Location: CC3- Mobius Hall
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought the climate crisis into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Former Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy.
Open to the Public, Run time is: 1hr 38 min.
Event Sponsor: Cascadia Sustainability Club
Saturday, April 27th
10:00 – 1:30pm – Trail Restoration and Forest Bathing with Friends of North Creek Forest
Location: North Creek Forest right off of 112th Ave NE
Join ACT with the Friends of North Creek Forest for a Trail Restoration Work Party and Forest Bathing Walk During Earth Week. Lunch, transportation, and tools are provided!
Event Sponsor: Achieving Community Transformation (ACT), UWB
Sunday, April 28th
11:00 – 3:00pm – Restoration at Songaia
Location: Songaia Cohousing Community
22401 39th Ave SE, Bothell, WA 98021
The Outdoor Wellness Leaders (OWLs) are taking a group of students out to Songaia Co-housing Community to learn about sustainable living communities and get some hands-on-learning and involvement with restoration in their evergreen forest.
Event Sponsor: Outdoor Wellness Leaders
As always, please email me for any questions!
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