About Earth Week 2020
Earth Week in the past
Earth Week has always been a yearly celebration for UW Bothell/Cascadia College, and in 2017, we joined forces to combine our efforts and create a week packed with awesome events. We formed an Earth Week Planning Committee, made up of students, staff, and faculty from various groups on campus, divided and conquered.
Earth Week 2020
We are in this together.
COVID-19 has brought a great deal of uncertainty and unease within our community; people are facing many difficult situations and hard times. But with that, we are seeing a community coming together to help one another, make it through, heal, share resources, and look out for each other. That's what sustainability is about.
Sustainability is about going back to a time where you could ask your neighbor for sugar when you are out, or to offer your neighbor some of your resources because theirs are depleted. To share in a meal (even at a six-foot distance) and have enriching conversations with those around you.
We notice our community making their own DIY hand sanitizers and disinfectants due to a scarcity of this resource. We see people sewing masks for medical workers who are in short supply of the protective equipment they need to do their job. People are supporting our local economy and realizing the value of the small businesses that are struggling to make it through. People are sharing in game nights with their families at home, and walking instead of driving. They are happy to talk with their co-workers over a video call, because they realize the value of these interactions.
So at this time, let us break away from the times of the past, and create that "new normal" that everyone keeps referring to. A "new normal" where we realize that the most important things in life are people, not things. A new normal where we go for a walk, not because we are quarantined in the house all day, but because we realize the beauty of our earth and want to experience what it has to offer. Let us bookmark this time of great change and remember how our community banded together when we were in peril; and take that forward into our new version of normal.
A special thank you to our sponsors
We would like to give a special thank you to our sponsors and partners for Earth Week 2020, including:
UW Bothell Diversity Center
UW Bothell/Cascadia College Library
City of Bothell
UW Bothell School of Nursing and Health Studies
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