Sustainability Initiative

Events

Edmonds Community College is at work year round on the greening of the campus and engaging students in sustainability education and action.

To find out information about Sustainability Council meetings, click the link.

Our campus partner, the Live Well initiative, holds several events a month centering on health and wellness for the college community. To access their calendar, click Live Well.

College Events

April 15th Kicks off Earth Month at Edmonds Community College!

We’re committed to thinking, teaching, and living green.

Join us at events focused on sustainability April 15-May 15.

Ongoing throughout the month:

Alternative Transportation Contest

Stressed out trying to find a parking spot? Find out the benefits of using Community Transit and all the great prizes you can win by taking the bus, riding your bike, walking or carpooling this month. We’ll have a weekly drawing throughout Earth Month for students and staff—anyone who uses alternative transportation is encouraged to enter.

Each week we will be giving away $50 to a student or member of faculty or staff who has submitted an entry. Entry blanks are available in the bookstore or submit your entry to EdPass@edcc.edu with your name, your alternative mode of travel and the day you used it. Submit an entry for each week that you use an alternative commute. This contest is sponsored by the Sustainability Council with funding from ACCE (Arts, Culture and Civic Engagement.)

Green Crafting

Tuesdays

Clearview 120

12:00PM - 1:00PM

Learn how to make your own recycled and reusable totes/lunch bags.

Recycle Your Shoes

Brier Student Center

Nike has made it possible for athletic shoes of every kind to become much more than waste in a landfill and to serve a greater purpose long after they have run their last race. ReUse-A-Shoe recycles worn-out athletic shoes into sports and playground surfaces.

To keep their recycling equipment running smoothly,

please use these guidelines:

Athletic shoes only (any brand)
No shoes containing metal
No cleats or dress shoes
No wet or damp shoes
No flip flops or sandals

They are old favorites, best friends and loyal partners that went everywhere with you. Give them a new purpose! You can also drop off at any Nike store at anytime.

Sustainability/Environmental Display of Resources

Library, Lynnwood Hall, 3rd Floor

Want more to find out more about earth month, sustainability, and the environment? The librarians at EdCC have organized a display of important resources to help you learn more.

New film acquisition by library, A Sea Change, available for check-out by faculty

From the film’s website, www.aseachange.net : “Imagine a world without fish. It’s a frightening premise, and it’s happening right now. A Sea Change follows the journey of retired history teacher Sven Huseby on his quest to discover what is happening to the world’s oceans. After reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Darkening Sea,” Sven becomes obsessed with the rising acidity of the oceans and what this “sea change” bodes for mankind. His quest takes him to Alaska, California, Washington, and Norway as he uncovers a worldwide crisis that most people are unaware of. Speaking with oceanographers, marine biologists, climatologists, and artists, Sven discovers that global warming is only half the story of the environmental catastrophe that awaits us. Excess carbon dioxide is dissolving in our oceans, changing sea water chemistry. The more acidic water makes it difficult for tiny creatures at the bottom of the food web to form their shells. The effects could work their way up to the fish 1 billion people depend upon for their source of protein.”

One-Time Events:

Sustainability around the World Presentations & Panel

Tuesday, May 11th

Triton Union Building 202

3:00PM - 4:00PM

International students at Edmonds Community College will show how they’re addressing environmental challenges and taking positive actions issues in their home countries at our 3rd annual Sustainability around the World event.

Co-sponsored by International Education and Sustainability Council.

Please join us
for a reading by Sarah Zale, English faculty
from her poetry collection, The Art of Folding.
Monday, May 17
Triton Union Building 202
12:30 pm

Sarah Zale, part-time English faculty at Edmonds Community College and faculty advisor for the student Peace & Justice Club, is an advocate of discussion, storytelling, and poetry of witness about war and conflict. Her new collection of poems, The Art of Folding (Plain View Press, 2010), was inspired by her travels to Israel and the West Bank with the Compassionate Listening Project.
Co-sponsored by the Convergence Writers Series and the Sustainability Council.

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