可持续性 事件
地球周!!
4月17日 & 18, 2024 by the BOB全站 WVC campus fountain
Zero Waste Wednesday: 10:30am - Join a tour of our Campus 'food to worms to compost to greenhouse' process. Then at 11am, make your own worm bin to compost food waste 在家里. At 12pm, come learn how to reduce your waste to improve your ecological footprint! All events start at the fountain.
Thankful Thursday: 12pm - 免费的午餐 served by the fountain for the first 100 students and staff. 在12:30，学习如何 to measure carbon in our trees! 12:45 is the stormwater drain Art Contest using sidewalk 粉笔! Grab a friend or two at 1pm to take the 可持续性 Scavenger Hunt and 赢得奖项! The fun continues with a wildflower hike at the Jacobson Preserve Trail (park at 1913 Skyline Dr) from 3pm-4:30pm.
The public is invited to our 地球周 finale on Thursday, from 7-8pm in the Grove Recital Hall to hear from Kurt Caswell, visiting writer from the Honors College at Texas Tech University. Kurt will share the stage with the student winners of WVC's Annual Earth Day Poetry Contest.
可持续性 events are free. Sponsored by WVC 可持续性 Committee, ASWVC, 和QSA. For more information, please contact WVC 可持续性 Coordinator, Joan Qazi, jqazi@playpg168.net.
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气候变化 & Agriculture in Eastern WA
Public presentation by Chad Kruger on climate impacts for our regional agriculture and creative solutions for dealing with it. This event is the first in the Climate Solutions speaker series. Chad Kruger currently directs WSU's Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in BOB全站 and Center for Sustaining Agriculture & 自然 资源.
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WVC服装交换
可持续性 Committee parterned with QSA and ASWVC to hold a week long clothing swap which included gender affirming options and a screening of the film 'The True 成本的
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Tree Campus Service Learning
WVC had tree campus service learning events in October 2023 where students were encouraged 到learn how to measure carbon in our campus trees guided by 自然 资源 professor 迈克Lesky.
2023年植树节
WVC celebrated Arbor Day with Washington State’s first Native Poet Laureate, Rena Priest, who read poems about trees, joining fellow contributors to the Cascadia Field 指南书.
Dr. 了台北
In honor of Black 历史 Month, noted writer and ornithologist 了台北 gave a reading and discussed the intersection between race and the environment with our panel.
2022年地球日
WVC celebrated Earth Day with a week of events celebrating sustainability and the 自然世界.
泰勒Brorby
Dr. 珍妮特·阿姆斯特朗
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong presented “haʔntíxʷ iʔ‿tmxʷúlaʔxʷ uł niʕ̓íp txt̓ntsis: Respect the Earth and She will Always Take Care of You.”