Each April, Oxy’s campus comes to life with a celebration of our planet.
At Oxy, “Earth Day” just isn’t enough to capture our commitment to sustaining our planet! Students, staff, and faculty come together to plan a whole month’s worth of events, including local guest speakers, workshops, film screenings, an Earth Day Quad Fair, and so much more!
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The student-led thrift shop, Touchdown, hosted a series of eco-workshops at their new location in the Concession Stand. Events included a clothing mending workshop, a wild ink-making workshop, and a recycled glass trinket dish workshop.
The Office of Sustainability hosted Dr. Amanda Baugh, a professor and Director of the MA Sustainability program at CSUN, for the annual Earth Month Book Talk in partnership with the Religious Studies and Latino/Latina American Studies Department.
The Emmons Wellness Center Peer Power Program collaborated with the Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club for an eco-wellness walk at nearby Ernest E. Debs park!
In preparation for drafting the campus-wide Climate Action and Sustainability Plan (CASP), set to be published by Spring 2027, the Office of the President and the Office of Sustainability hosted a community forum to gather input from students, staff, and faculty.
In celebration of International Bat Appreciation day, the Urban and Environmental Policy department hosted local artist Jess Grudiel for a zine-making workshop all about bats, our most misunderstood pollinators!
The Media, Arts, and Culture Department, Obama Scholars Program, and Office of Sustainability collaborated to bring alumna Angelina Lee '22 to campus for the first LA screening of "Making a Mini-Forest," which documents a network of microforests using the Miyawaki Method in Western Europe. Students from the Womxn in Television and Cinema Club, the Food, Energy, and Sustainability Team (FEAST), and the Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club facilitated a Q&A with Lee, prompting questions about environmental storytelling and nature-based solutions.
The Excess Food Recovery Team (EFRT) and the Food, Energy, and Sustainability Team (FEAST) teamed up to bring the Altadena Seed Library to campus to give a workshop about native ecology and food systems.
The ASOC Sustainability Fund and the Office of Sustainability bround Jason Wise, AKA @JasonJourneyman to campus for two "Queer Ecology Walks" on Oxy's campus. Intended to view nature through a new, "queer" lense, the event brought students, staff, and faculty together to build community around our campus landscapes.
View a calendar of all events from Earth Month 2024!
Held annually on the last Thursday of April, the ASOC Sustainability Fund hosts a pop-up fair on the main campus Quad with temporary tattoos, sustainability tabling, and free local and vegetarian foods. In 2024, highlights included free Beewali's Vegan AF wraps, a native plant sale, Oxy olive oil tasting, paracord bracelet making, and a thrift store fundraiser for a local environmental organization.
The first Earth Month Film Fest featured three documentaries with environmental themes, including "Roots so Deep," "HANDS-ON: Women: Climate: Change," and a finale debut of Oxy alum Angelina Lee '22's "The Big Raise," a 40-minute documentary about permaculture in France.
Each year, the UEP 247: Urban Ag and Native Landscaping Practicum welcomes a series of local guest speakers to campus and opens the class to the community. In 2024, they welcomed Jose Gamma, an urban forestry expert; Maggie Smart-McCabe '20 and Lynn Fang from LA Compost; Aaron Tupoc of "Exploring the Mycoverse;" and Bruce Steele '71, Oxy's retired Environmental Health and Safety Manager and honeybee expert.
The Moore Lab of Zoology hosted a series of events including a natural history collection open house, a native bird walk, and a migration bird count with the FEAST Garden.
The Marketplace, Oxy's largest dining hall, hosted a series of vegetarian lunches each Friday in April. Menus included enchiladas, mac and cheese, empanadas, and falafel.
In an effort to teach Oxy students how to use public transit, and take advantage of their free U-Pass TAP cards, the Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club took students to LA State Historic Park for a picnic and the Hollywood Farmers Market on Metro buses. Student participants were given $15 vouchers to spend at the farmers market, courtesy of the ASOC Sustainability Fund.
This annual event features a home-cooked brunch with produce from the FEAST Bruce Steele Garden and local farmers markets and live music by student performers!
On April 22nd, 2024, Project SAFE hosted the first-ever annual 5k to honor and bring awareness to Earth Day and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and 2Spirit People! The event featured a teach-in by the So'oh-Shinálí Sister Project to share the historical context of the ongoing trend of sexual violence against indigenous peoples and how it relates to restoring land to the original Earth stewards, and a land blessing by Tongva community leader, Tina Calderon.
Each year, the ASOC Sustainability Fund hosts a pop-up fair on the main campus Quad with temporary tattoos, sustainability tabling, and free local and vegetarian foods.
The ASOC Sustainability Fund hosted an Upcycled Fashion Show in the Tiger Cooler with student-designed upcycled clothing!
The Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club (SOCC) and Sunrise Oxy hosted the first annual Earth Month Trivia in 2023 at Cannon Plaza with a themed meal from Campus Dining. The trivia event was completed by student jazz performers and a $100 gift card prize to the winning team of 4!
Each year, the UEP 247 class hosts a series of guest lectures in class that are open to the entire community. In 2023, the class welcomed Urban Homestead to chat about chickens and holistic animal care, LA Compost to speak about urban composting, and Bruce Steele (Chaparral Mountain Honey Co) to talk about pollinators!
The Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club (SOCC) brought a group of student volunteers to Descanso Gardens to remove invasive ivy!
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