Earth Week, April 18 – 24

Celebrate 51 years of Earth Week with your Saint Joe’s community! 

While COVID has once again forced us to postpone our annual Sustainability Festival, we are still hosting a variety of in-person and remote events all week long!

Schedule

Mon, Apr 19
3pm Film: Seeding Change
What do you know about the brands you support? Join us for an inside look into how business operations affect climate change. The new documentary film Seeding for Change features solution-based organizations and shows how both small and large companies can start to adopt triple-bottom line principles to ensure profitability, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability. Discussion will follow. Join us here.

4:30-5:15pm- Outdoor Yoga behind Alfond Center. Email samantha.summerfield@sjcme.edu to sign up.

Tues, Apr 20
Noon Lunch & Learn Environmental & Climate Justice Issues in Maine- with AmeriCorps VISTA Maddy King. Click to join.

1:16pm Pollinator Garden Cleanup- meet in garden

6:30pm Tour of EcoMaine

7pm Screening of The Condor & The Eagle
The Catholic Climate Covenant is presenting a free screening of The Condor & The Eagle, an award-winning documentary that follows four Indigenous leaders embarking on an adventure from the Canadian boreal forest in North America to the heart of the Amazon jungle in South America. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another.

The screening will be followed by a virtual panel discussion with two people featured in the film: Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma and Houston environmental justice advocate Bryan Parras. Register for the film screening here.

Wed, Apr 21
CANCELLED 4-7pm Farm Animals- flagpole

Thur, Apr 22
Eat Local Lunch at Pearson’s

4pm Paper making with Vanessa

Fri, Apr 23
1pm Nature walk with Dr. Paruk

Sat, Apr 24
TBD Campus road clean up

Other events will be added along the way.