Earth Week 2018 will be held from April 22nd – April 28th.
Earth Week is organized by the Earth Week Planning Committee, consisting of representatives from the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) and Environmental & Sustainability Student Organizations, as well as support from campus and community partners.
The Earth Week Planning Committee works to ensure all events and programs represent the sustainability community’s understanding of diversity and inclusivity: race, ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, and physical appearance.
If you need any form of accommodations to fully participate in the events as described, please contact serc@berkeley.edu.
**More information will be added to the calendar of events below as it becomes available.
Facebook event: EARTH WEEK 2018 AT UC BERKELEY
Earth Month Events (leading up to Earth Week)
Friday, April 6th, 2018
- Earth Initiative Conference and Art Display
- 1 pm – 11 pm @ Pauley Ballroom
- The 2018 conference has has two major components: workshops and a climate art experience. Workshops cover a variety of topics ranging from nuclear energy to environmental justice, and all result in some direct action, while the climate art experience utilizes art and food to convey climate science in an intimate and tangible way.
- Sponsored by Earth Action Initiative, The Green Initiative Fund, Graduate Assembly
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
- Earth Week Planting and Garden-Inspired Meal
- 5 pm – 8pm @ Crossroads Dining Commons
- Join us to enjoy produce and herbs harvested directly from the Clark Kerr Garden, plus plant a seed or basil plant to take home with you!
- Sponsored by Cal Dining Sustainability Team
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
- Earth Week Planting and Honoring Womxn in Food Systems
- 5 pm – 9pm @ Crossroads Dining Commons
- Celebrate all the ways womxn are involved and contributing to our local food system and reflect on your own; plus plant a seed or basil plant to take home with you!
- Sponsored by Cal Dining Sustainability Team
Friday, April 13th, 2018
- Environmental & Sustainability Careers Expo
- 12-3pm @ Anna Head Alumnae Hall
- A great opportunity for students to actively job or internship search, meet employers, or learn more about organizations and job roles within the environmental and sustainability sectors.
- Co-sponsored by Student Environmental Resource Center – SERC at UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley Career Center
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
- SASB Lunch and Learn: Measuring Sustainability that Matters
- 12:30pm – 130pm @ N270, Haas School of Business
- Join Berkeley Haas alumni Sonya Hetrick and David Parham of the Sustainability Accounting and Standards Board (SASB) to discuss the process behind developing SASB’s upcoming sustainability reporting standards and what they mean for business and investors. RSVP for the brown bag lunch discussion here.
- Co-sponsored by Net Impact, the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) and the Center for Responsible Business (CRB)
- Haas Freecycle (4/17-4/18)
- 11-4PM @ BoA Forum, Haas School of Business
- Bring any household items, clothes, electronics, or that holiday gifts to FreeCycle tables that will be set up in the Bank of America Forum in between 9:30-10:30AM. If you bring an item, you will be given priority access to all the donated items starting at 10:30 am!
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
- [Peterson Speaker Series] Carbon Neutrality: Achievability through Collaboration
- 12:30-1:45PM, Spieker Forum on Chou Hall (6th floor)
- featuring Salesforce, Cool Effect, Patagonia, and more.
- Co-sponsored by Net Impact, the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) and the Center for Responsible Business (CRB)
- Register here!
- Spring Sustainability Concert: Luke Wallace and Wormfarmer
- 5-7pm @ West Crescent Lawn
- Guayaki and Luke Wallace and Wormfarmer of the band Press Kit are hosting an environmental awareness + sustainability concert. Yerba Mate drinks and Clif Bars will be handed out!
- Co-sponsored by Student Environmental Resource Center – SERC at UC Berkeley & CHAOS – Cal Hiking and Outdoor Society
- DIY Guacamole, Brownies, Totebags!
- 7:30 pm – 9 pm @ 102 Sproul
- Come hang out and make your own guacamole, brownies, and totebags! SERC is collaborating with ReUSE to host this fun and relaxing event! Come through!
- Sponsored by the Student Environmental Resource Center, ReUSE
Friday, April 20th, 2018
- Patagonia Case Competition Finals
- 9 am – 5 pm @ Spieker Forum (6th Floor) of Chou Hall, Haas School of Business
- Graduate student teams from leading business schools across United States will come together at the Haas School of Business to provide a model for the development of Patagonia’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2025. This is the final round of the case competition, come watch finalist teams compete for a total of $22,500 in prize money and a trip to Patagonia headquarters!
- Sponsored by Center for Responsible Business and Patagonia
- BYO Reusables with Dumpling Express
- 12 – 2 pm @ Dumpling Express (2328 Bowditch St)
- The first 50 participants to bring a clean reusable container to Dumpling Express will get $3 off their order
- Sponsored by Telegraph Green
- Animal Liberation Tabling
- 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm @ Sproul
- This event will be a friendly and eye-catching tabling/protest demonstration complete with posters, placards, banners, and a hazmat suit.
- Sponsored by Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy (BOAA).
EARTH DAY: Sunday, April 22nd, 2018
- Earth Day Festival with Gill Tract Farm
- 10 am – 4 pm @ Gill Tract Community Farm
- An all day festival happening at the farm where there will be farm work, food, BBQ, music, workshops, art, and a whole lot of fun! Sign up to volunteer here.
- Sponsored by the UC Gill Tract Community Farm
- Berkeley Earth Day
- 10am – 6pm @ David Brower Center
- Berkeley Earth Day brings the Bay Area environmental community together to celebrate our vision for a sustainable future. This event features dozens of vendors sharing delicious sustainable foods, eco-friendly products, and epic activism. This event will feature Wild & Scenic Film Festival. (The event is free, but the film requires ticket purchase).
- Co-sponsored by Compassionate Living, Citizens Climate Lobby, David Brower Center, Downtown Berkeley Association, Ecology Center, & Our Children’s Trust
- Berkeley Day of Service
- 9AM – 1PM @ Shorebird Park Nature Center at the Berkeley Marina
- Celebrate Earth Day in a fun and rewarding way by cleaning up the shores of the Berkeley Marina in partnership with the Shorebird Park Nature Center! Register for one of four two-hour clean-up blocks.
- Co-sponsored by Cal Alumni Association, Public Service Center, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Monday April 23rd, 2018
- Rising Tides, Rising Voices: A Panel on Climate Justice
- 6-8 pm @ Anna Head Alumnae Hall
- A panel featuring activists and educators doing environmental justice work. The focus of the discussion will be upon the intersection of climate change and social justice, its impacts, and what we must do to ensure that the environmental movement is fighting for those most marginalized.
- Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP here.
- Co-sponsored by the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC), Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI), Brita, American Civl Liberties Union (ACLU).
- Divestival
- 12 – 2 pm @ Memorial Glade
- A potluck and community gathering featuring speakers who will discuss Fossil Free Cal’s work and celebrate the recent win for divestment from fossil fuel commodities. There will be a photo campaign and food will be provided!
- Sponsored by Fossil Free Cal
Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
- Equity and the Environment: What’s the Connection?
- 4-5pm @ 190 Doe Library
- Join Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch in a talk that will show how data science is being leveraged to examine linkages between social equity and sustainability and the implications of this work for policy
- Sponsored by Berkeley Institute for Data Science
- Nutritional Educational Session
- 4 pm – 6 pm @ Recreational Sports Facility
- Drop in sessions with registered dietitians, focusing on eating for optimal health and disease prevention. No appointment necessary
- Sponsored by UHS Nutrition Team
- No Man’s Land Film Festival
- 6 pm – 9pm @ Pauley Ballroom
- View a film that celebrates femininity in the outdoors and discuss a pressing issue in a commonly enjoyed recreational activity. This event promotes a better understanding of the social dimensions to environmental and natural spaces. Free for students, $5 at the door for non-students
- Co-sponsored by Cal Hiking and Outdoors Society (CHAOS), the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC), Office of ASUC Senator Nina Jhunjhnuwala
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
- Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability: CACS Summit
- 2:30-5pm, Speiker Room-Chou Hall (Haas Business School)
- The Sustainability Summit honors this year’s Sustainability Award Winners, gives campus organizations a chance to share posters highlighting their sustainability successes and projects and features an inspirational key note address. This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate campus sustainability efforts and network with those involved!
- Sponsored by Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS), The Office of Sustainability & Energy
- AEP Presents: Ice Cream and Pizza with Professionals
- 6pm – 8 pm @ 102 Sproul
- Get to know environmental professionals over ice cream and pizza! This causal, low-stress event will introduce you to people working within various subfields of sustainaiblity. Come hang out to learn about professionals’ backgrounds, ask for advice, or just chat! Conversation is open to attendees’ interests.
- Sponsored by Association of Environmental Professionals
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
- Zero Waste Fair
- 12-3pm on Memorial Glade
- This community event will feature student orgs and offices dedicated to zero waste. With both educational and entertaining components, we will address what “Zero Waste” is, exactly: why we care about it, what it looks like, who is impacted by it, and general guidelines to live by.
- Sponsored by the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC)
- Chou Hall Tour
- 10:30 AM @ entrance of Chou Hall
- Join Chou Hall’s zero waste team on a 30 minute sustainability tour that will guide you through Berkeley’s first zero waste hall!
- Sponsored by the Chou Hall Zero Waste Team
- BFI Foodscape Mapping Project: Policy Town Hall
- 5-7PM @ the David Brower Center (Tamalpais Room)
- A Town Hall where findings from the Foodscape mapping project and suggested policy recommendations will be shared
- Sponsored by the Berkeley Food Institute
- WASTED! film screening
- 7pm @ the Elmwood Theater (2966 College Ave)
- Narrated by Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! exposes the criminality of food waste and how it’s directly contributing to climate change. Through the work of several chefs, the documentary explores how each of us can make small changes.
- Student sponsored tickets available soon!
- Sponsored by the Ecology Center, College of Natural Resources (CNR), Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC)
- SUCC It!
- time TBA, @ Anna Head Alumnae Hall
- A painting event in which students can decorate a gardening pot and take home a succulent!
- Sponsored by Student Union Program, Entertainment, and Recreation Board (SUPERB) Productions
- Crafter Dark: UpCycled Collage
- 8-10pm @ Campus Living Room (ASUC Student Union) MLK 2nd Floor
- Get crafty! The Arts Studio is hosting a free, drop-in arts & crafts workshop in honor of Earth Week. Come on out to make animal and earth-themed collages out of recycled materials such as magazines, newspapers, cardboard, and more.
- Sponsored by the Berkeley Arts Studio
Friday, April 27th, 2018
- Food & Cooking Demonstration
- 2pm – 4pm @ the Food Pantry (#68 MLK Student Union)
- Simple cooking demonstrations that will involve plant based recipes, sustainably sourced ingredients, information on campus gardens, sustainable shopping tips, and more!
- Sponsored by UHS Nutrition Team
- Clark Kerr Garden Social
- 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Clark Kerr Gardens
- Come to Clark Kerr Gardens to meet the people doing great things for all the gardens across campus, learn more about the events and opportunities the gardens have to offer, and hear about all the ways to get involved!
- Sponsored by Clark Kerr Garden
- Marginalized Voices in Environmentalism + Art Display
- 5pm – 7pm @ 102 Wurster
- A poetry performance aiming to uplift voices that are typically marginalized within environmetalism.
- Sponsored by the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC)
All Week
- Energy Challenge Week
- Energy challenge between residence halls. Electricity use will be measured on all campus residence halls.
- Sponsored by Residential Sustainability Program
Post – Earth Week:
Saturday, April 28th, 2018
- LEED Green Associate Training
- 2 pm – 6pm @ 175 Barrows
- Become LEED Accredited! LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is simply a green-rating point system to certify a building’s sustainability.
- Register here ($300, $200 for full-time students at least 2 days before)
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
- Annual Spring Plant Sale
- 10am – 3pm @ UC Botanical Garden
- Spring plant sale featuring drought resistant plants
- Sponsored by the UC Botanical Garden