Come support bicycle infrastructure alongside other members of the Bellevue College community on Tuesday March 23rd from 5 pm to 7 pm at Bellevue City Hall! The City of Bellevue Transportation Department has been working hard to propose 57 miles of bicycle facility improvements including 2 miles of off-street path, 24 miles of separated bicycle ...more about Bellevue Bicycle Lane Open House March 23rd!
Are you a local business? Do you offer locally sourced, organic, vegan, or gluten free products? Are your products hand crafted or unique? Do you offer something that meets ALL of the above? We would love to consider you for our Sustainable Festival on April 19th from 10 am to 2 pm. We are having ...more about Earth Week Vendor Call Out!
Over the past few months, Bellevue College's Office of Sustainability have been collecting cigarette butts in an effort to reduce our student waste. Every year, billions of cigarette butts end up in dumpsters and landfills, or get tossed as litter on shorelines, parks, and sidewalks across the US. The waste collected through this program is ...more about Cigarette Recycling Program a Huge Success!
APPLICATIONS DUE BY FEBRUARY 29TH MIDNIGHT. Student Scholarships WSRA invites students interested in the recycling industry to apply for scholarships to attend our 36th Annual Conference and Trade Show as a part of our Student Guest Program! May 15-18, 2016 Wenatchee Convention Center | Wenatchee, WA With the support from our generous ...more about Washington State Recycling Association 36th Annual Conference: Apply Now!
Interested in sustainability? Want to learn more and become a voice for sustainability on campus? Apply to go to the Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (OHESC). The Office of Sustainability is accepting applications for students to go to Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon February 3 to 5th (leave on the 3rd in the afternoon, return on the 5th in the afternoon). All ...more about Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference!
With over 4.5 trillion of these littered each year, they can be found just about everywhere we look. What are they? Cigarette butts. When cigarette butts end up on our sidewalks and in our parks, waterways, oceans, and even landfills, they can cause serious damage to water and soil quality as well as wildlife. They leach ...more about Cigarette Recycling at Bellevue College
Bellevue College offers a number of courses with content emphasizing sustainability and encourages all faculty to integrate sustainability into their programs, courses and sections. For information on how we identify course with sustainability related or sustainability focused content review the definitions and outcomes of Sustainability in the Curriculum at Bellevue College. For a complete list ...more about Try a Sustainability Class This Fall!
This Fall, many students commutes will be affected by changes in WSDOT new I-405 express toll lanes program. How do express toll lanes work? Electronic signs post the toll rate based on destination and automatically adjust depending on traffic congestion. You pay the rate you see upon entering the express toll lanes. As more vehicles ...more about I-405 Express Toll Lanes between Bellevue and Lynnwood
Last month Bellevue College purchased a brand new Honda Civic hybrid vehicle to provide more options for BC staff when running errands around campus. Bellevue College already has 4 hybrid Ford trucks, which are used by staff as utility vehicles in making trips around BC. The Honda hybrid boasts impressive gas mileage at 44 mpg ...more about New Honda Hybrid on Campus