Campus Engagement

Spring Semester Events Schedule:

January

1/18: Community Garden and Orchard Workday

Meet at 209 Stancill Drive at 10 AM. Wear comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, close-toed shoes, and bring water. Gardening tools and gloves will be provided.

1/27: Town Creek Culvert Litter Cleanup

Meet in Willis Building parking lot near the culvert at 3 PM. Wear comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, close-toed shoes, and bring water. Trash pickers and gloves will be provided.
Note: There is a steep climb down to the litter cleanup site. Make sure to take this into account when considering your footwear.

February

2/11: Zero Waste Gameday

Please sign up through our GivePulse!
Come to Minges Arena to volunteer as a Gameday Recycling Challenge Ambassador. We will have 5 Zero Waste Stations set up throughout the concourse as well as an information table to run. After the game, we need volunteers to help sort and weigh trash and recyclable materials.

2/13: Sustainability Film Screening and Discussion

The Great Green Wall: A Buena Vista Social Club meets Years of Living Dangerously, renowned Malian singer Inna Modja takes us on a music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perseverance across Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall.
Part musical odyssey and cultural road-trip, part desertification and climate justice exploration, Inna sets out on a mission to assemble Africa’s most thrilling musicians and record a once-in-a-lifetime album that captures the spirit of the Wall – the budding 8,000km “belt of green” stretching from Senegal to Djibouti – providing food, jobs, and a future for millions of people.
Weaving together unforgettable personal stories of Sahelian adversity, determination and triumph, Inna leads us on a pilgrimage through the cities and savannahs with a band of artist-activists composing an indelibly eclectic soundtrack for a continent at a crossroads.
Once complete, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef, and a new wonder of the world. This is the resilience story of our time, a massive social action project, and a symbol of hope in the resounding African Dream.
Screening starts at 6 PM in the Black Box Theater with a discussion to follow.

2/17: Town Creek Culvert Litter Cleanup

Meet in the Willis Building parking lot near the culvert at 3 PM. Wear comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, close-toed shoes, and bring water. Trash pickers and gloves will be provided.
Note: There is a steep climb down to the litter cleanup site. Make sure to take this into account when considering your footwear.

2/19: Otter Creek Natural Area Trail Maintenance

Meet at the Main Campus Student Center Bus Stop at 2 PM. Wear comfortable clothes appropriate for hiking and bring water. Tools and gloves will be provided.

March

3/19: Otter Creek Natural Area Guided Hike

Meet at the Main Campus Student Center Bus Stop at 2 PM. Wear comfortable clothes appropriate for hiking and bring water.

3/24: Town Creek Culvert Litter Cleanup

3/27: Sustainability Film Screening and Discussion

Exposure: As the Arctic Polar Ice Cap Melts, reaching the North Pole has become increasingly dangerous. Yet, an expedition of ordinary women from the Arab world and the West strap on skis and haul sleds toward True North, against all odds.
Award-winning filmmaker, Holly Morris, captures it all from frostbite to polar bear threats, to sexism and self-doubt in this intimate story of resilience, survival, and global citizenry – on what may be the last-ever expedition to the top of the world.
Screening starts at 6 PM in the Black Box Theater with a discussion to follow.

April

4/15: Sustainable Crafting

Join us at 1 PM in Ledonia Wright Cultural Center to make crafts to give new life to “trash.”

4/16: Otter Creek Natural Area Guided Hike

Meet at the Main Campus Student Center Bus Stop at 2 PM. Wear comfortable clothes appropriate for hiking and bring water.

4/21: Town Creek Culvert Litter Cleanup

4/23: Earth Day Festival

Come to the lawn behind the Main Campus Student Center from 10 AM to 2 PM to join in sustainable activities, get sustainable swag, and learn about how different organizations around campus help ECU be more sustainable.

4/24: Sustainability Film Screening and Discussion

Common Ground: Sobering yet hopeful, ‘Common Ground’ exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health play a vitally important role in changing these systems for the better. At its root, it explores how people from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different places share one thing in common – the very soil beneath their feet.
The film is directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, who have created bold and inspiring environmental films for many years (Kiss the Ground, On Sacred Ground, Regenerate Ojai, Fuel, The Big Fix), while winning coveted awards along the way from Sundance, Cannes, Red Nation, and Tribeca.
The film features celebrity actors, activists, and philanthropists Rosario Dawson, Laura Dern, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Jason Momoa, and Ian Somerhalder, along with interviews with Gabe Brown, Jonathan Lundgren Ph.D, Mark Hyman M.D., Leah Penniman, Ray Archuleta, Toby Kiers, Ph.D, Allejandro Carillo, Carey Gillam, Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott, Kara Boyd, Robyn O’Brien, Rick Clark, and many other farmers, ranchers, scientists, educators, allies and beyond.
Screening starts at 6 PM on the MCSC lawn with a discussion to follow.