Hunger Action Week is a volunteer-driven community assessment food security survey in four areas of King County—Bellevue, North Seattle, Kent, and the Rainier Valley. The event takes place on Saturday March 30th from 10-2. Volunteers will be stationed outside of storefronts (for example, food banks, grocery stores, small markets, etc.) in groups of two or three, and ...more about Volunteer for Hunger Action Week – March 30th on the East Side
Batteries keep us wired – from our toys to our cellphones – but all that power impacts our health and safety as well as the environment. Alkaline batteries contain heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel. At the dump, these harmful metals leak into groundwater or get released in the air. These heavy metals degrade our environment ...more about Battery Recycling: Simple Environmental Step
Green Corps is currently accepting applications for the 2013-2014 program which begins in August of 2013. Green Corps' one-year, full-time, paid Field School for Environmental Organizing includes intensive classroom training, hands-on field experience running urgent environmental campaigns, and career placement in positions with leading environmental groups. More information here.
Faculty Sustainability Representative (BC Opportunity): The ‘Sustainability Reps’ take an active roles in identifying and expanding sustainability teaching and learning in existing courses and implement the work program overseen by the Sustainability Curriculum Committee, a subcommittee of the Environmental Advisory committee. Read more or apply.
Join members of the Bellevue College community for a session on environmental legislative priorities for Washington. Three speakers will talk about: Protecting natural areas Clean energy solutions Toxic-free products for children and families. Environmental leaders Tom Bigert (Washington Wildlife Recreation Coalition), and Ben Serrurier and Jil Mangaliman (Washington Environmental Council) will discuss the process and progress of three ...more about Students in Power! Greening our campus and the State!
Back-to-Back Lobbying and Testifying by BC Students - 2/13/2013 Throughout the month of February, the SSA, Sustainability, and OSLA have been attending multiple lobbying sessions at the State Capitol in Olympia. Last Wednesday, Zach Boucher, the Transportation Coordinator at Sustainability, participated in a Transportation Lobby Day. The following day, I testified to the House Environmental ...more about Sustainability at BC Goes to Olympia!
At the end of Fall Quarter 2012 the Office of Sustainability hired three new interns to tackle of some of the issues facing sustainability on campus. The three internships include a Zero-Waste Intern, an Advocacy Intern, as well as a Sustainable Foods Intern. Here is a description of each internship and what it is they ...more about Sustainability Intern Spotlight
The 2012-2013 BC READS! Student Scholarship Winners have been selected! Thank you to the faculty who participated in the selection process for the common book and for judging the entries in the scholarship contest. The winners will be honored at an afternoon tea during National Library Week in April. This year’s BC READS! book, Deep ...more about The 2012-2013 BC READS! Student Scholarship
