Featured Events
Featured Events
RIT joins the world in celebrating Earth Month every April. You might be familiar with Earth Day, celebrated annually on April 22nd.
Earth Month is a part of the global movement to demonstrate support for environmental sustainability for the month of April and beyond!
Upcoming Events this Month:
Community Gardening Days
Every Fridays in April from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Community Garden (located behind Gene Polisseni Center)
Come volunteer with us at the community garden and learn about the joys of growing your own vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Attendees will receive free plants to bring home to their own gardens. Tools will be provided - just come in some clothes you don't mind getting a little dirt on and get ready to prepare the garden for the upcoming spring!
Rochester Public Market
Every Saturday in April from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Meet at Grace Watson Hall (Lot C) at 10:30 or Kate Gleason Circle at 10:45 a.m.
Take a free ride downtown and shop for fresh produce, ethnic delicacies, and much more! No RSVP required! The bus is first come, first serve until max capacity on the bus is reached!
Tigers vs. Trash
April 22nd to 26th, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Brick City Cafe
This Sustainability and Dining collaboration will feature composting, active waste diversion tracking/statistics, and reduced packaging waste! All of your waste will be sorted by a team of sustainability ambassadors to enable optimized recycling and composting to minimize our effect on the local environment and send as little waste to the landfill as possible.
Madrigalia: Earth Keeping Concert
Tuesday, April 23rd, 5:30 p.m.to 7 p.m. at Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, SHED
Join the College of Science and the School of Performing Arts for an afternoon of Science and Song, as Madrigalia, now in its 46th concert season, will present its Earthkeeping program in conjunction with the RIT Singers featuring choral works concerning our planet and its future. Following the concert, there will be a reception including College of Science student researchers and environmental and sustainability-focused campus groups.
Goodbye, Goodbuy! Collection Program
Thursday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 12th
Goodbye, Goodbuy! is back for the season! Every year, student leaders and volunteers collect usable items from students during move-out week. These items are then sold to incoming students during our fall move-in sale. Help support this program and prevent usable items from sitting in landfills! Sign up to Volunteer
Upcoming Sustainability Events on Campus Groups
Find more upcoming events on Campus Groups under the Sustainability Events Tag.
Wellness Walks and DIY Activities
The Sustainability Wellness Team organizes wellness walks and DIY activities throughout the school year.
Climate Speaker Series
Every spring RIT hosts a Climate Change speaker who covers various aspects of climate change from the science behind it to environmental justice issues that are resulting from it. Previous speakers have included Aaron Mair and Dr. James Hansen.
Professional Development Opportunities
Sustainability in Practice: RIT is committed to employing best-in-class sustainable practices within university operations and achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. But what are sustainable practices, how will RIT become carbon neutral, and what is the role of staff members in advancing these commitments? RIT recognizes the need for all staff to become better equipped to lead sustainable change within their departments. This session, provides an introduction to sustainability and provides resources to facilitate sustainable behavior change. Participants will learn how RIT is responding to this grand challenge, and will explore tools and strategies for enacting sustainable practices within your unit and everyday work.
Exploring the Intersections of Equity, Sustainability and the Environmental Movement: Sustainability is about more than recycling, planting trees, energy efficiency and cool green technology – it is about ensuring that all people live in harmony with their natural environment. In this workshop, we will explore the intersections of sustainability, diversity, and justice, and cover topics such as human health and wellness, access to resources, and environmental justice. Participants will learn how structural racism, sexism and classism contributes to environmental degradation, and how certain individuals are more vulnerable than others to its harmful impacts. Examples from RIT and the greater Rochester community will be shared, and participants will discuss ways to create meaningful dialogue and social change within campus and beyond.
Have an idea for an event?
Let us know if you have an idea for a sustainability related event that you’d like to help organize.