Events
Earth Month
Earth Month, dedicated to Earth Day on April 22nd, is a FUN-filled month with various environmental and sustainability related activities and events for students on campus.
This month is devoted to those wanting to demonstrate their dedication to creating a healthy and sustainable world. Celebrate our bountiful planet with WCU!
Join this year's Earth Month Celebration, as we promote sustainability and give thanks to our planet.
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Friday, April 4th 4pm |
Join Eco CATS for a relaxing hammock hangout at the WCU Solar Hammock Lounge. Bring your own hammock or rent a hammock from WCU Base Camp Cullowhee. |
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Friday, April 11th |
Join Sustainable Campus Initiative for this community event to help beautify our edible garden behind Bardo Arts Center. Wear comfortable clothing and come ready to work! Bring your own water bottle. We will provide snacks and cold H2O. |
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Saturday, April 12th 9am-4pm Location: Catafount |
41st Annual Tuck River Clean-up Join Base Camp Cullowhee for The Tuck River Cleanup, one of the nation's largest single-day river cleanups. Hundreds of volunteers unite to clean 15 miles of the Tuckasegee river from Cullowhee to Whittier, NC. Registration will take place on the UC Lawn by the Alumni Tower at WCU. To raft the river, one must register the day of the event. Registration will take place from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Due to available gear, registration will be limited to about 500 volunteers.
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Wednesday, April 23rd 6pm Location: UC Theater |
Join Sustainable Campus Initiative to create your best look out of recycled materials or repurposed trash and walk the runway for a chance at a monetary prize deposited into your student account or RSO's account! First Place- $200, Second Place- $100, Third Place- $50 Individuals and RSO's can enter using the form labeled "2025 Trashion Show Info and Entry Form," under the forms tab on our engage page. Entries are due by April 6th. Your piece does not have to be finished by this deadline, just in time for the trashion show!
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Thursday, April 24th 7:30pm Location: Bardo Arts Center - Performacne Hall |
A Netflix Original Documentary Series: Our Planet Live with Dan Tapster Four billion years. Millions of species. Five mass extinction events. It’s the story of Life on Our Planet, a stunning new series chronicling the ongoing rise and fall of lives on Earth, from the cataclysmic events that reshape our ecosystems to the creatures that survived along the way. During this event, audience members will hear, Dan Tapster, the series' showrunner, as he describes the process and his experiences while working on Life on Our Planet LIVE. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, Life on Our Planet uses stunning natural history and world-class VFX to reveal the story of life in a way that has never been attempted before. Doors will open to the performance 30 min before the show is set to start. Get your tickets at arts.wcu.edu/tickets! Event sponsored by Bardo Arts Center and Sustainable Campus Initiative |
RecycleMania
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, campuses compete in different contests to see which institution can collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate.
America Recycles Day
America Recycles Day is celebrated every year on November 15th. This day is full of events promoting recycling and more awareness of the things we can recycle.
Tailgate Recycling
Tailgate recycling occurs with help from EcoCATS every home football game. We meet 3 and 1/2 hours before each game and help pick up recyclables from the tailgate. These events can be used as community service hours through the Office of Service Learning.
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