Each April, Oxy’s campus comes to life with a celebration of our planet.
At Oxy, “Earth Day” just isn’t enough to capture our commitment to sustaining our planet! Students, staff, and faculty come together to plan a whole month’s worth of events, including local guest speakers, workshops, film screenings, an Earth Day Quad Fair, and so much more!
View a calendar of all events from Earth Month 2024!
Held annually on the last Thursday of April, the ASOC Sustainability Fund hosts a pop-up fair on the main campus Quad with temporary tattoos, sustainability tabling, and free local and vegetarian foods. In 2024, highlights included free Beewali's Vegan AF wraps, a native plant sale, Oxy olive oil tasting, paracord bracelet making, and a thrift store fundraiser for a local environmental organization.
The first Earth Month Film Fest featured three documentaries with environmental themes, including "Roots so Deep," "HANDS-ON: Women: Climate: Change," and a finale debut of Oxy alum Angelina Lee '22's "The Big Raise," a 40-minute documentary about permaculture in France.
Each year, the UEP 247: Urban Ag and Native Landscaping Practicum welcomes a series of local guest speakers to campus and opens the class to the community. In 2024, they welcomed Jose Gamma, an urban forestry expert; Maggie Smart-McCabe '20 and Lynn Fang from LA Compost; Aaron Tupoc of "Exploring the Mycoverse;" and Bruce Steele '71, Oxy's retired Environmental Health and Safety Manager and honeybee expert.
The Moore Lab of Zoology hosted a series of events including a natural history collection open house, a native bird walk, and a migration bird count with the FEAST Garden.
The Marketplace, Oxy's largest dining hall, hosted a series of vegetarian lunches each Friday in April. Menus included enchiladas, mac and cheese, empanadas, and falafel.
In an effort to teach Oxy students how to use public transit, and take advantage of their free U-Pass TAP cards, the Sustainable Oxy Citizens Club took students to LA State Historic Park for a picnic and the Hollywood Farmers Market on Metro buses. Student participants were given $15 vouchers to spend at the farmers market, courtesy of the ASOC Sustainability Fund.
This annual event features a home-cooked brunch with produce from the FEAST Bruce Steele Garden and local farmers markets and live music by student performers!
On April 22nd, 2024, Project SAFE hosted the first-ever annual 5k to honor and bring awareness to Earth Day and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and 2Spirit People! The event featured a teach-in by the So'oh-Shinálí Sister Project to share the historical context of the ongoing trend of sexual violence against indigenous peoples and how it relates to restoring land to the original Earth stewards, and a land blessing by Tongva community leader, Tina Calderon.
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