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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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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
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