The Office of Sustainability, along with many other campus and community partners, is excited to bring a full week of events and programming to the community. CC’s celebrations for Earth Week will start Monday, April 20, and run through Saturday, April 25. We invite you to engage in this week of learning, consciousness, and celebration!  

Earth Week Book Display and Raffle

Host: Tutt Library
Time: All week with results announced Friday, April 25
Location: Tutt Library 2nd Floor Research Desk

Come by throughout the week to check out the library’s Earth Week book display. While you are there, make sure to enter the raffle! The winners will be announced on Friday, April 25.

Stop Food Waste: Food Waste Trivia and Food Scrap Cooking Demo

Host: Bon Appétit
Time: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Location: Rastall Dining Hall

This event emphasizes how we reduce waste from field to plate. A Bon Appétit chef will be preparing a dish in the cafe that showcases a recipe that utilizes vegetables from stem to root.

Food Fight: Earth Day Blended Burger Challenge

Host: Bon Appétit
Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Location: Rastall Dining Hall

Two Bon Appétit chefs will go head-to-head, serving up inventive blended burgers, swapping out meat with exciting plant-based ingredients. Try both and vote for your favorite. 

CC Exchange: Spring Pop-Up

Host: Office of Sustainability
Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
Location: Worner Quad

Celebrate Earth Day at the CC Exchange Spring Pop-Up! This event will feature a curated collection of cute, colorful, and totally FREE clothing if you are looking for a sustainable way to jazz up your closet. The wardrobe refresh won’t stop there; you can stop by to make your own mending kit to help keep the clothes that you already have out of the landfill, and in your day-to-day rotation for years to come. If you attend this event you will also have the opportunity to contribute to a climate pledge quilt with what Earth Week means to you!

Gaia Masquerade

Host: State of the Rockies Project
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: Bemis Great Hall

Come celebrate the 56th Earth Day with the State of the Rockies Project. There will be live music, free food, and we will be announcing the winners of the 2026 Photo Contest. The Gaia Masquerade will be on Wednesday, April 22, from 6-8 p.m. in Bemis Great Hall. Please arrive in your best Earth Day-themed outfit. Gaia is a Masquerade Party, so a mask is required for entrance. This event also requires an RSVP to attend.

Linnemann Lecture

Host: Environmental Studies & Science Program
Book Signing: 5-5:45 p.m.
Lecture: 6-7:15 p.m.
Location: Celeste Theatre (Cornerstone Arts Center)

This presentation examines the themes of Dr. Jessica Hernandez’s Fresh Banana Leaves and how Indigenous histories and knowledge systems make essential contributions to contemporary environmental science. Through her exploration of land stewardship, ecological reciprocity, and community‑rooted science, the book demonstrates how Indigenous science offers holistic, place‑based frameworks that address environmental challenges in ways Western science alone cannot. Highlighting examples such as forest management, ecological restoration, and climate resilience, the presentation illustrates how Indigenous knowledge strengthens scientific inquiry by centering relationality, interdependence, and long‑term observation. By comparing Western scientific approaches with Indigenous ecological practices, we show how collaborative, decolonized research models lead to more ethical, resilient, and sustainable environmental outcomes. Ultimately, this presentation argues that embracing Indigenous science is not supplementary but foundational to building a more just and effective environmental science for the future. 

Arbor Day

Host: Facilities Services’ Landscape & Grounds Crew
Time: 12:30-2 p.m.
Location: East side of Boettcher (Campus Safety building)

Join us for an Arbor Day planting event hosted by the Landscape & Grounds crew at Facilities Services, where you’ll work alongside the crew to plant trees near Boettcher. 

Put in some hard work while helping to enhance our campus environment! Free sandwiches, drinks, and T-shirts will be available while supplies last, so come early, get your hands dirty, and join us in celebrating sustainability!  

Pride Outside

Host: Outdoor Education
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Location: Yampa Field

Join us for Pride Outside, Outdoor Ed’s Annual event to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community in the outdoors. There will be music, games, prizes, food, a climbing wall, arts and crafts, a gear sale, and lots of campus and community resources. Come out to Yampa Field from 2-4 p.m. on Friday, April 24. See you there! 

Earth Week Book Display and Raffle Drawing

Host: Tutt Library
Time: Results announced today!
Location: Tutt Library 2nd Floor Research Desk

This is the last day of the Earth Week book display. Make sure you stop by before it’s too late to enter the raffle! Winners will be announced today, so don’t miss your chance to participate and win some great prizes.

Earth Fest

Host: CC Farm x CC Plant Futures
Time: 4:30-7 p.m.
Location: CC Farm

The CC Student Farm Club is excited to invite everyone to enjoy music from student bands, dinner, and farm-related activities. There will be art supplies for painting and beautifying the space, as well as opportunities to help with farm work (weeding, for example). It will be a lovely time to bring friends and spend time together at the farm. One of our goals in hosting events like this at the farm is to remind students that it can be a space to gather, relax, and take a break from campus obligations. Vegan and vegetarian options will be available for snacks and dinner.

Food to Power Breakout Trip

Host: CCE
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Food to Power Hillside Hub

Join Breakout to volunteer with Food to Power (FTP). FTP is a multifaceted program that cultivates a healthy, equitable food system in the Colorado Springs community. Its work focuses on reducing food waste and increasing access to food to help address food insecurity. On this trip, work will involve bed prep, planting seedlings, and working with mushroom blocks and fungal compost. Learn more and sign up on Summit.

14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903