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Earth Week

Villanova University 

Celebrates Earth Day 2022

Tuesday, April 19

Flavey Library presents Hester Blum, Professor of English at Pennlyvania State University, on Tuesday, April 19th at 4PM via Zoom

In the summer of 2019 Blum was the lone humanities scholar on a scientific expedition tracking climate change in the Northwest Passage. Drawn from her experience on the Arctic icebreaker (and on an Antarctic expedition), as well as her research on nineteenth-century polar expeditions, Blum's talk offers a meditation on ice as a measure for visualizing, writing about, mourning, and mediating the state of the climate in an age of ecological and institutional crisis.  
 
This event is offered in support of Falvey Memorial Library’s current exhibit "That Fairyland of Ice": Polar Exploration in Mind and Memoryand is included alongside Earth Week events. The event is co-sponsored by Falvey Memorial Library, the Office of Sustainability, the Department of Geography and the Environment, and the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest. It is free and open to all!

Wednesday, April 20

Explore the campus through green colored glasses. The tour will start in the campus garden (behind the tennis courts next to Driscoll hall) at 12:00PM on Wednesday April 20. 

Thursday, April 21

Campus Tree Tour

Thursday, April 21: 11:00AM-2:00PM outside by the Oreo 

Enjoy connecting with sustainable businesses and organizations from on and off campus, as well as sampling local food.  Tie dye t-shirts are back, as are amazing prizes for those who connect with our vendors. New this year, sustainability themed temporary tattoos. 

Protecting Environmental Justice Communities, Keynote lecture

Thursday, April 21 at 6PM in Driscoll 134 or via Zoom (Register for Zoom)

Nicky Sheats, Ph.D, MPP, Esq., Director, Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy at Kean University, and

Member of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

Thursday, April 21 at 6:00PM in Corr Chapel

Taizé is an ecumenical monastic community in France, which has a large following among young people. Their primary style of communal prayer is through meditative singing. We use many of their songs in our program and at masses on campus.

Thursday, April 21 from 9-10:30PM in Cafe Nova

Enjoy your weekly Quizzo with a green twist. Some of the questions for the night will be centered around environmental history.

Earth Day: Friday, April 22

Friday, April 22 7-11pm 

Enjoy fire pits, arts & crafts, and the Lorax. Participants will be given a clay planting pot to paint, alon with seeds to plant when they get home.

Enjoy sustainability themed food trucks on Friday, April 22  from 9pm-11pm at the Oreo 

Defending the Land: Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas

Friday, April 22- Saturday, April 23

In the face of profound uncertainties as to the future of planet Earth, the present historical moment calls for revisiting the multi-layered relationships that are at the origin of socio-environmental conflicts on a local, national and global scale.

Online and In-Person

More Information 

Saturday, April 23

Defending the Land: Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas

Friday, April 22- Saturday, April 23

In the face of profound uncertainties as to the future of planet Earth, the present historical moment calls for revisiting the multi-layered relationships that are at the origin of socio-environmental conflicts on a local, national and global scale.

Online and In-Person

More Information 

Sunday, April 24

Earth Day of Service Volunteers

9:00am-1:00pm 

Give back to the community by supporting this year's Earth Day of Serivce partners Stoneleigh Gardens and CRC Watersheds Association. 

Register for a site today

Check out this years official Earth Day Poster

Earth Day activities are sponsored by the Office of the President, Mission and Ministry, Office of the Provost, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, College of Engineering, the Associate Vice Provost for Research, the Sustainability Leadership Council, Villanova Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova Center for Resilient Water Systems, Villanova Center for Global and Public Health, Villanova Center for Global Leadership, Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women’s Leadership, Villanova Center for Liberal Education, Villanova Center for Peace and Justice Education, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Villanova Sustainability, Office of Student Life, Dining Services, Environmental Health and Safety, Grounds Staff and the Recycling Coordinator, Ethics Program, Department of Biology, Department of Geography and the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Political Science, Department of History, and the Villanova Environmental Group

VUSustainability

Villanova University, as a community of learned and learning scholars, respecting the sacredness of all creation, accepts its responsibility to the integrity of Earth and its biodiversity, to the heritage of future generations, and to the security of nations. By utilizing the Augustinian values of Unitas, Veritas, and Caritas, meaning love thy neighbor, promote community unity, and live life in moderation through our curriculum, work environment, and operations, Villanova’s approach to sustainability exemplifies an emphasis on social justice and community service.

For questions regarding campus sustainability email Sustainability@villanova.edu

Earth Week 2022

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