Events are planned every day of Earth Week April 22-28 on the 糖心vlog视频 and Cascadia College campus, but the high point will be the Sustainability Festival on April 24.
More than 50 vendors and exhibitors will present along campus walkways and on the Plaza, where two bands will also be playing, said Alexa Russo (Environmental Studies 鈥�17), the sustainability coordinator. Highlights include a Bike Works bicycle repair trailer, a talk on zero-waste living and a demonstration on how to use beeswax to make a replacement for plastic wrap.
Russo has worked closely with Cascadia College with the goal of making Earth Week a year-long continuum of sustainability. The theme is 鈥淲hat are you going to do this summer?鈥�
Usually in the fall people ask, what did you do last summer, Russo said.
鈥淚 want to shift that to what are you going to do this summer,鈥� Russo said. 鈥淚 want to create a continuum where Earth Week isn鈥檛 one week when you鈥檙e super involved and passionate about sustainability and then as soon as Sunday hits you鈥檙e done. I want to make people aware of the continuous opportunities.鈥�
Earth Week is also an event that showcases campus unity with Cascadia College and involves faculty and student clubs. 鈥淲e do Earth Week as one entity,鈥� Russo said.
Clubs include Cascadia鈥檚 Sustainability Club and Garden Club, and UW Bothell鈥檚 Sustainability Club, Campus Events Board, Achieving Community Transformation (ACT), and the OWLS (outdoor wellness leaders).
This is the third Earth Week on campus for Russo, who started working as a student in the Sustainability Office. Sustainability is within the core mission of the University of Washington as a whole and 鈥減art of what we do at UW Bothell,鈥� she said.
鈥淏eing mindful of how you鈥檙e living your life and having an impact on the Earth is very important,鈥� Russo said. 鈥淎nd It doesn鈥檛 take much to have an impact.鈥�
