Bloomberg Green Festival is a global collaboration between innovators, policymakers, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, musicians and more, to explore new solutions spanning the entire climate spectrum.
Headquartered at our Seattle Center campus, the festival will cover four themes vital to creating practical, collective change: Technology and Innovation, The Climate Economy, Greener Living and Green Policy. 

Students from the Spring 2024 offering of ENVIR 480, Sustainability Consulting Practicum, hit it out of the park last week with their presentation on super-gas user conversion to electric vehicles!
In ENVIR 480, students are split into teams and paired with local Seattle organizations — often either businesses or nonprofits — to work on a client project that advances sustainability in the respective sector. 

Ava Vaughan, Program on the Environment Undergraduate Scholarship
Ava is pursuing a dual degree in business and environmental studies with a minor in nutrition. She grew up on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington and spent most of her life on Dabob Bay. 

Seattle Parks and Recreation is hosting this year’s Greater & Greener Conference in Seattle, from June 21 to June 25 – and we are in need of additional volunteers!
What is Greater & Greener 2024? 

Tikvah’s Garden is a charismatic bioswale of native plants outside of the Fishery Sciences Building, which has undergone restoration led by the UW Program on the Environment. After some recent blackberry invasion, they reached out to the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) to collaborate and have decided to take on the challenge. 

FareStart is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people gain skills to move out of poverty, while also working to feed the community. They have a number of volunteer opportunities coming up this summer for those interested in environmental justice, food systems, sustainability, and much more! 

Each year, the College of the Environment asks for nominations of College community members who make exemplary contributions in areas including teaching, mentorship, community impact, and more. This year, we are absolutely thrilled that PoE’s very own P. 

Join us for Spring Celebration, the UW College of the Environment community’s end-of-the-year gathering and awards ceremony! Indulge in delicious food and beverages while grooving to music and engaging in fun games like table tennis and cornhole. 

Are you a previous ENVIR 240 student who couldn’t get enough of the course content? Apply to be a TA for Autumn quarter 2024! See the flyer above for quick details, and check out this link for a complete job description. 

This year’s Trash Art contest, held by UW recycling, has finally come to an end! Students & staff were invited for the fifth year in a row to submit artwork created from items normally thought of as trash, or a written work about waste and sustainability, that conveyed feelings or ideas about waste and sustainability.