The Environment & Our Community course kicked off Spring Quarter with students participating in some exciting Earth Week 2021 sustainability and climate justice related activities through the BC Office of Sustainability.
Events Virtually Attended:
Culture Is Power: Reclaiming the Radical Imagination with Favianna Rodriguez: Through case studies in migration, gender justice and climate justice, Favianna Rodriguez shared strategies on how to build cultural power to catalyze lasting social change.
Repair What You Wear Workshop: Mending clothes is climate action! Students learned how to repair their own clothes and keep them out of the landfill.
Other Earth Week Events are infused throughout the quarter, including:
Virtual Tour of the Bullitt Center: One of the world’s most sustainable buildings, which is right downtown Seattle! Students discussed what are the most important concepts & ideas that they learned about the Bullitt Center? Why are they important to sustainability?
Make Your Own Social Justice Poster: Artist activist, Favianna Rodriguez, shared 3 tips on how to create a social/environmental justice poster. Each student created their own poster and presented to the class.
11 Actions for the Planet: Students checked out these climate actions that they can take during the pandemic. Through class discussion students selected 1 of the 11 action steps and shared how 3 of their values relate to their selection.
Rise: From One Island To Another: Two indigenous poets – one from the Marshall Islands and another from Greenland – meet at the source of our rising seas to share a moment of solidarity. The class discussed how this short video clip relates to Climate Change and steps we need to take to protect the planet.
Environment & Our Community is one of the many courses OLS Bellevue College students take to obtain their associate degree from OLS. More information about our curriculum is available on our website. To learn more about our program register for an upcoming Information Session.
Last Updated May 11, 2021