Fall Sustainability Series 2022

Join us in exploring sustainability and social justice topics this fall. Get to know fellow BC Bulldogs interested in sustainability and learn about how you can get involved!

Upcoming Events

• November 8, 2022
• 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
• D106
• First come, first served!

Come get crafty with us by making a variety of upcycled Fall decorations! We will be making glass jar votives, book page wreaths, tin can luminaries, and plastic container planters. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring more. All supplies/crafts will be first come, first served.

• November 14- 28, 2022
• View anytime!
• Please email sustainability@bellevuecollege.edu with your BC email to receive the link to view.

This film follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. As the climate crisis escalates, these time-tested practices of North America’s original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.

• Event time and day to be determined, but it will take place sometime in late NOVEMBER or early DEEMBER.
• Check back here or keep an eye out in the BC FYI Newsletter for time, day, and location updates.

Bellevue College is working towards being a certified Arboretum! Take a walk in one of the 4 areas that belong to the arboretum and chat with one of the Grounds Crew members about the different plants species there and the process to gain this certification.

• Virtual Events!
• Part 1: December 8, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Featuring Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Howard Frumkin, and Dr. Vin Gupta
• Part 2: December 9 at 12:00 pm
  • Featuring Rebecca Solnit
• Register for Part 1 and 2 here

Health and climate change are tightly woven together—both the impacts from pollution on our lives and communities and the benefits we all experience when we accelerate equitable clean energy solutions. 

Learn about how we still have a window of time to stop making things worse and instead accelerate positive change, why we should have hope, and how to stay hopeful.

• October 3, 2022
• 11 am to 1 pm
• In the garden outside of the greenhouse (west side of greenhouse)

Stop by the student garden from 11 am to 1 pm and help weed, chat with fellow BC Bulldogs, plant fall crops, and learn about how you can get involved. We’ll be planting garlic, beets, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, gai lan, flowers, and other hearty plants that will overwinter. All are welcome!

If you are interested in joining the BC Garden Club, this is a great opportunity to learn more and get started!

• October 18, 2022
• 11 am to 2 pm (Pickup)
• C Courtyard (or C Lobby if raining)
• Must reserve and pay for prior!
• Click here to reserve a jar of honey
• Click here to reserve a CSA produce box

CSA Produce Box

Come get your local, fresh and organic produce all while supporting farmers in the Puget Sound region. Each box is $20.00 and will contain a bounty of organic produce (10 different types of fruits and veggies, types TBD!). Reserve your box here!

Honey

Enjoy a jar of honey straight from the hives on campus! Honey is $12 for a 12 ounce jar. Reserve your jar(s) here!

The Payment and Pickup Details

Boxes and Honey Jars must be reserved ahead of time and are first come, first serve, so don’t delay as there’s a limited quantity available.

Once reserved, we will send you a confirmation email and online payment directions will follow.

***All orders must be picked up on campus Tuesday, October 18th between the designated times and there will be no refunds.

• October 18, 2022
• 11 am to 2 pm
• C Courtyard (C Building Lobby if raining)

Come learn about the new ORCA Card system and how everyone 18 years or younger (and in some cases 19 years old) gets to ride transit for free. You’ll learn how to ride for free and how to register your ORCA card as a free youth card. ORCA representatives can answer questions for anyone about registering your card, adding money to your card, replacing a lost/stolen card, and more. Come get some ORCA and Metro giveaways too!

Check back here or BC’s FYI Newsletter for updates and additions to the Fall Sustainability Series. Have an idea for an event? Let us know and email sustainability@bellevuecolleg.edu

Last Updated September 11, 2023