Sustainability Events
Current Events
Bicycle to Campus
Bike to Campus Week is from May 12 to May 16 on both Omak and Wenatchee campuses. Take a photo of your bike parked on campus and email it to dwysham@wvc.edu before Friday, May 16 at noon to be in the raffle to win prizes. Reduce your carbon footprint and improve your health, ride a bike!
World Pollinator Day
World Pollinator Day is on Tues., May 20 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the Wenatchee
campus. Meet at the fountain to take a campus pollinator tour, plant in our pollinator
garden, taste some honey, and make Mason bee houses. This event is hosted by the WVC
Sustainability Committee in coordination with Psi Beta and CAMP. For more information,
contact: jqazi@wvc.edu
Past Events
Earth Day Fair 2025
WVC partnered with Sustainable NCW to host their community Earth Day Fair on campus with a 5K or 1 mile Fun Run and then main events by the fountain. This free, family friendly fair featured hands-on activities and learning opportunities to celebrate the Earth! The fair included 50+ vendors, music, bike repair, food trucks, mini workshops, EVs, and a silent auction.
Earth Day Reading
Recognizing Earth Day and National Poetry Month, WVC held events on campus near the fountain, including stormwater drain sidewalk chalk art and measuring carbon in campus trees. Lunch was served for students and staff at 12:30 p.m. and then festivities moved inside to the Grove Recital Hall for poetry reading by students, staff and visiting writers. Students, faculty, and staff enjoyed a guided wildflower hike off campus at the Jacobson Preserve at 2:45 p.m.
Zero Waste Wednesday 2025
The WVC Sustainability Committee hosted a clothing swap and a clothing repair station, where college students, faculty, and staff could bring clothes to be mended or to be swapped for something new (to you)! They also had a recycling game with prizes, demonstrations of our campus glass crusher, and a recycling waste audit.
Bike to Campus Week
2024
WVC Sustainability Committee wants to encourage everyone to use two wheels!
October is Tree Campus Month!
- Thursday, October 17th 10:30a.m. to 11:30a.m. and 1:30p.m. to 2:30p.m. -- Planting the new Pollinator Garden behind the Library and Wells Hall. Students and staff are welcome to help plant native shrubs and trees to attract pollinators and beautify our campus!
- Thursday, October 24th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. -- Common Ground film screening open to the public in Van Tassel Lounge. This film about regenerative agriculture is hosted by the WVC Sustainability Committee, Sustainable NCW, and Rotary District 5060 Environmental Group. There will be a Q&A afterwards. Popcorn and sparkling water will be available!
Love the Planet
The Chelan Douglas Land Trust and WVC Sustainability Committee offered a free, educational,
and engaging Love the Planet event at WVC on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025 from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. in the Maguire Center, Mish ee twie.
Participants learned about recycling, food waste composting, and trail etiquette to
show their love for the planet. Recycled materials were also available for participants
to create messages of love for Valentine's Day.
Earth Week 2024
WVC celebrated Earth Week with a week of events celebrating sustainability and the natural world.
April 2024
Climate Change & Agriculture in Eastern WA
Public presentation by Chad Kruger on climate impacts for our regional agriculture and creative solutions for dealing with it. This event is the first in the Climate Solutions speaker series. Chad Kruger currently directs WSU's Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee and Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources.
March 7, 2024
WVC Clothing Swap
Sustainability Committee parterned with QSA and ASWVC to hold a week long clothing swap which included gender affirming options and a screening of the film 'The True Cost'
January 2024
Tree Campus Service Learning
WVC had tree campus service learning events in October 2023 where students were encouraged to learn how to measure carbon in our campus trees guided by Natural Resources professor Mike Lesky.
Earth Week 2023
WVC celebrated Earth Week with a week of events celebrating sustainability and the natural world.
Arbor Day 2023
WVC celebrated Arbor Day with Washington State’s first Native Poet Laureate, Rena Priest, who read poems about trees, joining fellow contributors to the Cascadia Field Guide book.
Dr. Drew Lanham
In honor of Black History Month, noted writer and ornithologist Drew Lanham gave a reading and discussed the intersection between race and the environment with our panel.
Earth Day 2022
WVC celebrated Earth Day with a week of events celebrating sustainability and the natural world.
Taylor Brorby
Dr. Jeanette
Armstrong
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong presented “haʔntíxʷ iʔ‿tmxʷúlaʔxʷ uł niʕ̓íp txt̓ntsis: Respect the Earth and She will Always Take Care of You.”
ClimateAction Panel
UN Sustainable Development Goals Training 2021: Wenatchee Valley College Climate Action Panel.
Earth Day 2021
Visiting writers Scott Russell Sanders and Ross Gay read their Earth writing for Earth Day 2021 and Poetry Month (April). Earth Day Poetry Contest student winner also read her winning poem.