Cornell University is celebrating Earth Day on April 20th and the entire month of April as Sustainability Month with over 80+ events in film, fashion, art, wellness, social justice, climate change leadership, and sustainability topics. 

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View more Sustainability Month events in the Cornell Events calendar.  

KEY EVENTS

Climate Change Seminar Series
Mondays at 2:55pm, 125 Riley Robb or via Webinar

• 4/9: Achieving a Carbon Neutral Campus by 2035
• 4/16: How Low Can We Go: What Is Needed to Achieve Low Temperature Climate Targets
• 4/23: What Climate Do We Owe to Our Great-Great-Grandchildren?
• 4/30: Climate Change and Cities: Transitions to Transformation

Advance Your Skills - Cornell Sustainability Management Academy Training (Registration req)

• 4/17, 9am-Noon: Sustainability & Climate Change 101 
• 4/17^, 1pm-4pm: Sustainability Business Integration & Climate Solutions 201 

Fairs, Festivals

• 4/14, 10am-4pm: AgStravaganza! (Ithaca Commons)
• 4/16-27: CHE's Got Sole - Shoe and Sock Collection Drive
• 4/20, 11am-3pm: Springfest! An Earth Day Celebration - free food, vendors, prizes, and awards.  Not to be missed!
• 4/26, 4:30-7pm: Sustainable Living Conference: Practical Ways to Reduce your Ecological Footprint
• 4/23-28: Plastic Waste Educational Pop-up
• 4/29, Noon-4pm: Compost Fair

People’s Climate Week 
Events focused on the intersections between climate change and social justice issues through the stories of climate migrants and marginalized communities. 

• 4/22-27: Refugee Display
• 4/24-25: Arts Quad Camp Out
• 4/25, 5-7pm: Climate Refugee Panel
• 4/26, 4:30-7pm: Sustainable Living Conference: Practical Ways to Reduce your Ecological Footprint
• 4/26: Sustainable Campus Party
• 4/27, 9-11:30pm: Refugee Gala
• 4/28, 9am-noon: SNRC Arbor Day 5K

Films, Art & Fashion

• 4/9, 7-8:30pm: From the Ashes (Film)
• 4/11, 7-9pm: 24 Frames (Film)
• 4/12, 4pm: Cotton: Companies, Fashion and the Fabric of our Lives
• 4/14, Noon: The Shore Line
• 4/14, 1:40pm: Chesire Ohio
• 4/14, 8:30pm: Entre Los Hielos De Las Islas Orcadas
• 4/15, 3:30pm: Unfractured
• 4/14, 8pm-midnight: EcoTure Fashion Show
• 4/23, 4:45-6:30pm: Hands-On: Women in Climate Change
• 4/25: Pledges of Allegiance flag for the water crisis in Flint, MI
• 4/26, 3pm: Riverblue
• 4/27, 8-11pm: Opening Celebration at the Johnson: Shifting Ground

Social & Environmental Justice

• 4/12, 12:15-1:30pm: Reppy Institute Seminar - Power for the Powerless: Martin Luther King’s Late Theory of Civil Disobedience
• 4/12, 4:30pm: Remembering the Future to Keep It from Happening: Environmental Imagination in the Anthropocene (by Lawrence Buell)
• 4/19, 4:30pm: Environmental Justice and American Culture: "All Things Considered: Black Faces, White Spaces & the Possibility of Us"
• 4/22, 7-8pm: Earth Day Unity Hour
• 4/25, 5-7pm: Climate Refugee Panel

Mann Library Week-Long Earth Day Celebration

• 4/20-27: Conservation Collage
• 4/21, 1pm: Giant Bottle 2.0
• 4/24, 2-4pm: Chains to Change: Makerspace Workshop
• 4/24, 4:30-5:30pm: Enhancing Community, Economy and the Environment through "ReUse"
• 4/26 - Film Screening: Riverblue

Other Events

• 4/6: Cornell Thrift Free Pile Friday
• 4/22, 2:30-5pm: Campus and Gorge Cleanup
• 4/22, Noon-3pm: Think Green Think Blue Succulent Sale
• 4/22, 1pm: Earth Day Hike on the Cayuga Trail
• 4/23-28: Plastic Waste Educational Pop Up
• 4/26, 4-5:30pm: Campus Sustainability Case Competition

Content promotion and events coordination support provided by:

• The Campus Sustainability Office
• Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future