No matter what role you play at DU 鈥 from undergraduate students to tenured professors, graduate assistants to senior administrators 鈥 there are ways for you to engage with sustainability at DU. Your ability and desire to create change on campus is how we will all succeed,听together.
Earth Week 2025 is coming!听
Departments all over the DU Campus have come together to put together a fantastic suite of opportunities during the month of April in celebration of Earth Day. Click the links below to see the full calendar of events, get more details, and register to participate.听
The Future of Housing & Transportation in Denver Starts Here! As Denver continues to grow, so do the challenges of providing affordable housing and accessible transportation to all Denverites. Attend The Road Ahead, a half-day event with Transportation Solutions, bringing together policymakers, transportation and housing leaders, developers, and advocates to discuss innovative strategies that make housing more affordable while improving mobility for all. At this event, we鈥檒l explore how reducing parking requirements can lower construction costs and encourage transit use by providing residents with transit passes instead of parking spaces. We鈥檒l also dive into strategies that promote:
路 Walkable and bike-friendly communities 路 Bike-sharing and safe cycling infrastructure 路 Carpooling and ride-sharing options for flexible mobility 路 Integrated transit solutions that connect people to opportunities.
Join us in celebrating our planet by exploring local Colorado businesses and internal DU Partners advocating for environmental sustainability!
DU Sustainability Council, USG & Transportation Solutions are hosting a Bike to Campus day at DU in conjunction with our Earth Week Kick-Off Event on April 21. Earth Week is about promoting healthy, sustainable lifestyles, and a call to action for our planet, including volunteer opportunities around Earth Day. Come to enjoy breakfast, enter to win raffle prizes and learn about sustainability efforts from our DU community and external businesses!
Location: Denver Botanic Gardens and Chatfield Farms Botanic Gardens
Monday, April 22 is Earth Day and an SCFD free admission day at Denver Botanic Gardens on York Street and Chatfield Farms Botanical Gardens. However, you must register to reserve your free tickets!
Celebrate Earth Day and sustainability at DU with a collaborative event hosted by numerous student organizations! Engage with interactive stations centered around advocacy and mutual aid, featuring activities like self-soothing techniques inspired by nature, a clothing drive, and more. Hear from inspiring Indigenous speakers and learn how you can contribute to a greener future. Join us for a day of action, learning, and community building!
Give, Take, Refresh! Join the Office of International Education for a Clothing & Travel Gear Swap鈥攁n eco-friendly way to refresh your wardrobe and adventure essentials without spending a dime! Bring your gently used clothing, shoes, backpacks, luggage, and travel gear. You don't need to donate to participate! Whatever鈥檚 left will be donated to a local charity, keeping usable items out of landfills. You can drop off your items in Community Commons Suite 3100 the week of April 21-April 25 anytime between 9am-4pm.
Hosted by the Department of Business Ethics and Legal Studies (BELS), this free event brings together industry leaders, sustainability experts, faculties, students, and innovators to discuss cutting-edge topics.
As the culmination to Earth Week 2025 at DU, join featured guest vocalist GAEYA, with an ensemble of Lamont students, arrangements by Lamont students and faculty, guest youth vocalists and the Foothills Community Choir.
Rooted in Sweden, GAEYA blends Scandinavian mystery - driven by powerful vocals - with sounds of natural ancient worlds and ambient synth-soundscapes by converting them into atmospheric landscapes. GAEYA takes you on an immersive journey to a different place for you to explore the earth by getting drawn into freshly woven webs of intergalactic pop music and deep-rooted Nordic frequencies. GAEYA invokes a desire to return to nature. GAEYA gives live musical performances both on stage and during the unique not-to-miss GAEYA-TIPI-EXPERIENCE 漏 - her own portable arena where she invites the audience to experience music around a living campfire. Last but not least, GAEYA鈥檚 podcast series TellUs engages worldwide audiences in an ongoing dialog about ecological & social sustainability and shares ideas & possible solutions to modern lifestyle challenges, and to embrace alternative lifestyles.
Time: 10am-4pm (You can come for all of it or just an hour!)
Location: DU Bridge Community Garden, 2320 S Race St, Denver, CO 80210
Get your hands dirty with this Earth Week! Help the DU Bridge Community Garden with garden tasks such as transferring compostable plant materials to a compost dumpster, spreading leaf mulch, digging out and fixing garden beds, weeding, organizing the tool shed, and more!
Sustainability Council
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The Sustainability Council is open to everyone in the DU community and is where the larger goals and strategy for sustainability at DU are discussed. The full council meets one time per quarter, with smaller committees meeting monthly 鈥 this is 鈥渨here the work gets done.鈥 The Council is your opportunity to have your voice heard as we move toward听a more just and sustainable campus. Leave a lasting mark on campus by helping to craft policies that will drive decision-making at DU, put together action plans that will form the map we follow toward听our goals听or write goals for the short or long term.
The Earth Week of DU-ing seeks to immerse the DU community in the school鈥檚 vision of a private University for the public good. Organizing with more than a dozen community partners focused on justice and sustainability in Denver, this event sends students, faculty, staff, alumni听and friends out into the wider Denver community to make a tangible and meaningful difference in our city鈥檚 vibrant neighborhoods.
Inspired by excellent partnerships with organizations in the wider Denver community, this event focuses on building connections between the DU community and the natural world. Through a planning partnership between the Center for a Regenerative Future, the Center for Community Engagement to promote Scholarship and Learning (CCESL), , , 听and the we work to create a truly One DU event.
Spend your Earth Week connecting with nature, learning new ways to live sustainably, getting to know your fellow DU community members, and working with one of our amazing on-campus or community partners.听
Interested in hosting a volunteer project for Earth Day of DU-ing? Interested in bringing your whole staff to volunteer together? Email Julia at Julia.Senecal@du.edu.听
Bridge Community Garden
Located at the corner of Race Street and Iliff Ave, the Bridge Community Garden offers a growing green oasis at the south side of campus. DU community members are able to rent a garden plot for a growing season, which makes it possible for people without space at their own homes to garden and produce their own food. Additionally, the Bridge Garden hosts several public workdays to help maintain the garden beds, shared spaces听and compost piles during the fall and spring quarters, which serve as a great opportunity to meet others at DU, get your hands dirty听and learn more about what the garden is doing.
Interested in renting a garden plot or volunteering at a future garden workday? Email Julie at julie.morris@du.edu.
Interested in staying up to date with the awesome plants all over campus? Follow the Bridge Garden on and .
Sustainability Fairs
Every quarter, the Center for a Regenerative Future hosts a huge sustainability fair intended to offer an array of opportunities to learn, engage, have fun, eat听and take home some great sustainability swag. Fall quarter鈥檚 event features a Shop and Swap clothing thrift store and the winter quarter features the annual Local Market, which highlights locally and sustainably produced foods by small companies all over Colorado. Spring quarter focuses on the Earth Day of DU-ing and collecting donations during Move-Out. Beyond these larger events, the Center for a Regenerative Future also hosts a variety of smaller events from Mobility Munchies, garden workdays听and听many more. Follow the Center for a Regenerative Future on to get the scoop on all the ways to be involved!
