About Earth Month 2025
Welcome to Earth Month, Bellevue College & Office of Sustainability’s 26th annual celebration of our planet, environmental conservation, and climate action. This year, we have an exciting lineup of speakers, workshops, film screenings, giveaways, stewardship events, and Earth Market, and more!
This year’s theme, Make Waves: Amplify Your Voice, centers around finding your own confidence to speak up in the face of environmental and sociopolitical issues. We all can leave ripples in the pond that echo outwards.
All events are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. Snacks and prize drawings will be at every speaker session and workshop.
Lost? View the campus map with parking, as well as room locations.
Land Acknowledgement
Read our land acknowledgement and get resources to recognize the lands on which Bellevue College resides.
Prizes
At the end of every event we will be doing a raffle to win exclusive Earth Month 2025 prizes. Attend more to have even greater chances to win them!
Earth Market
The 2025 Earth Market will be a huge gathering of outside vendors, organizations and BC departments and clubs. It will be on April 30th from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm in the C Courtyard (depending on weather).
Live Events Schedule
Make sure to check the schedule frequently for any updates!
Earth Month 2025 Week 1: April 8th-11th
| Event | What It’s All About | Location/Time |
|---|---|---|
| E-waste Collection Bin (Drop off) | Donate any personal electronics that are broken, old, or items you just don’t want anymore! Local company PCs for People Seattle will recycle your old electronics in an environmentally friendly manner, while ensuring any data on the device is securely removed or destroyed. Refurbished technology then gets donated to those in need. Accepted Items List NOT Accepted: CRT Monitors, kitchen appliances, garden tools, hand tools, or bathroom appliances. | April 7th, – Month’s End C Building, Student Union |
| Habitat Restoration | Join the Office of Sustainability and Grounds Team for an afternoon of work supporting habitat restoration on campus. With nearly 100 acres of urban forest, our campus is the site of diverse species, and a few invasive ones! Help remove invasive plants and keep our campus ecosystem healthy. | April 8, 2025 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm E Building (Theater) Sign up here |
| Tree Giveaway | Register using your BC email to reserve your FREE tree from local non-profit 300 Trees here. Trees are available for BC students, staff, and faculty to take home and are meant to be planted outside to add to the Urban Tree Canopy. All trees are in 1-gallon pots and there is a variety to choose from: California lilac, Cascara, Mountain Hemlock, Pacific Wax Myrtle, Crabapple. One tree per person please! | April 9, 2025 11am – 1pm C Courtyard Sign up here |
| Seed Planting Station | Kickoff your garden and stop by to plant seeds in a small pot to take home. A large variety of plants will be available to choose from, so don’t miss out! | April 9, 2025 11am – 1pm C Courtyard |
Earth Month 2025 Week 2: April 14th-18th
| Event | What It’s All About | Location/Time |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Grounds Tour | Join the Office of Sustainability and Grounds Team for a tour of BC’s Arboretum and stormwater infrastructure, including the recently completed compost burrito project. | April 14, 2025 1:30-2:30pm Meet at C Courtyard Fountain. Sign up here |
| Zero Waste Day: Clothing Swap / Refill Station | Stop by the C Courtyard for one of our most popular events, the Clothing Swap and Refill station! Browse a selection of free clothing items, and take home green cleaning products. Don’t forget your reusable containers! | April 15, 2025 10:30am-1:30pm C Courtyard |
| EV Car Show | Stop by the courtyards to experience the electric vehicle show courtesy of Seattle Electric Vehicle Association! You’ll get a close up look at many brands of EVs, custom builds, and more, as well as learn about how electric cars work and what makes them better than all-gas cars. | April 16, 2025 10:30am-1:30pm C Courtyard |
Earth Month 2025 Week 3: April 21st-25th
| Event | What It’s All About | Location/Time |
|---|---|---|
| Native Plant Talk with Pamela SeaMonster | Join Snohomish Tribal Elder, Pamela SeaMonster as she shares traditional stories and Indigenous wisdom about native plants of the Pacific Northwest. Learn traditional Coast Salish uses of many plants that grow on the BC campus and beyond! | April 22, 2025 12:30-1:30pm D106 Sign up here |
| Professor Dungy Talk | Student workshop – Prof. Dungy, author of the recent book “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden” will lead students through a poetry writing workshop focused on the intersection of writing about nature, environmental action, and identity. This workshop is open to anyone and no poetry background required. Registration required. Public lecture – Prof. Dungy will talk about the experiences that led her to write her recent book “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden” which addresses the intersection of race, climate justice, community history. This lecture is open to the public including students, faculty, and staff. No registration required. | April 23, 2025 Student Workshop: 12:30-1:20pm Public Lecture: 1:30-2:30pm N201 |
| Costa Rica Experience- Bringing a “Blue Zone” Lifestyle to Bellevue College | Join BC students to learn how Blue Zone living on the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica compares to that of the United States and Bellevue College Specifically. These Global Wellness students traveled to Costa Rica during Spring break of 2025 to answer research questions about the impact of the power nine attributes and how these lifestyle practices could be brought back to Bellevue College and have an impact on us all. Join this talk to consider how you can include more sustainable and wellness practices into your daily life- and maybe live to be 100! | April 23, 2025 1:30-2:30pm D106 |
Earth Month 2025 Week 4: April 28th-30th
| Event | What It’s All About | Location/Time |
|---|---|---|
| Film Screening: Common Ground | Grab some free popcorn and watch the newly released documentary film Common Ground in the Cafeteria. Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late. | April 28, 2025 11:30am-12:30pm Cafeteria |
| Earth Market | Join our annual Earth Month market to connect with local organizations working in sustainability, and purchase locally crafted goods, honey, flowers, and more! | April 30, 2025 10:30 am – 1:30 pm C Courtyard |
| CSA Produce Box Sales | Come get 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. Preorder here | April 30, 2025 10:30 am – 1:30 pm C Courtyard |
Connect With Us!
Email: sustainability@bellevuecollege.edu
View Previous Earth Weeks Here!
Last Updated March 24, 2025