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There are many ways to pitch in, participate, and learn more about sustainability while you’re at Bates.
EcoService Day – Saturday Apr 28, 2012
Each spring, Bates holds an Eco-Service day. Eco-Service day is an opportunity for everyone to get outside and pitch in for the environment and our campus. Students, faculty and staff volunteer for projects helping to clear and maintain hiking trails, fix community bikes, clean up local wilderness preserves, etc. Show up ready to get dirty and have fun!
Trashion Show
Bates’ Office of Sustainability, Dining program and the Theater Department join forces each November to host a Trashion Show. Students, faculty and staff participate as designers, as models and as judges to make this event a huge hit! As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, the fashion show stresses both individual responsibility and communal effort in reducing consumption. All materials must be found/reused & refashioned and outfits must be durable enough to wear in the fashion show.
View pictures of the 2009 Trashion Show
EnviroLunch Series
The Office of Sustainability and Environmental Studies program co-host a weekly EnviroLunch Series every Thursday from 12:05 to 12:55pm in NC room 221. Faculty, staff, students and community guests can bring lunch up from the dining hall and join us for this community gathering around environmental topics. Topics range from raising backyard chickens, to building a community garden in Armenia, to the effects of climate change on Maine’s forests and wildlife.