2024 Earth Week Calendar of Events
Saturday, April 13
Spring Flower Festival
Time: 2p.m. -6 p.m.
Location: Core Arboretum Lawn Area
Come to WVU Core Arboretum for our sixth annual Spring Flower Festival on Saturday, April 13, from 2-6 pm! This family-friendly, free event is open to everyone and will showcase the beautiful spring ephemeral wildflower display that happens every year in the Arboretum's old-growth forest preserve. The event includes a self-guided wildflower tour, live music, food trucks in the parking lot, and other fun activities. These flowers only last a couple weeks every year, so catch them while they’re out!
Sunday, April 14
WVU Department of Biology Spring Ephemeral Wildflower Walks
Times: Noon, 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
Location: WVU Core Arboretum Parking Lot
The Core Arboretum's spring ephemeral wildflowers are a unique sight that makes Morgantown and the Arboretum special. Ephemeral wildflower walks are free guided tours that allow sight-seers to view dozens of plant species in bloom and learn about their ecology and what makes them unique. To keep tour sizes reasonable, attendees are asked to register in advance. Make sure to dress for hiking and bring your camera!
Monday, April 15
WVU Dining Earth Week Menu
Time: 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Location: Café Evansdale, Hatfields and Summit Café
The WVU Dining
Services team will add several unique, plant-based meal options to their
lunchtime menus at each dining hall in honor of Earth Week. Learn more and view the menu.
Shrink Your Foodprint
Have you ever wondered how the food you eat affects the planet? A foodprint measures the environmental impacts associated with the growing, producing, transporting, and storing of our food. To measure yours, try new recipes and learn easy ways to shrink your foodprint, view the Earth Day website.
Pollinator Garden Maintenance Volunteer Opportunity
Time: 10a.m.-12p.m.
Locations: Life Sciences Building pollinator garden (Near parking lot 5) and Evansdale Library pollinator garden (beside parking lot 46)
Work alongside members of the WVU Sustainable Landscapes Committee to tidy up the pollinator garden for spring! Volunteers are needed to help hand pull weeds and clear debris from the garden. Sign up here.
Tree Planting Party at Falling Run Greenspace
Time: 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
Location: 40 Outlook St Morgantown 26505 (Meet at Falling run Outlook St entrance tool trailer)
Join us to plant hundreds of native saplings at Falling Run Greenspace! Restoring natural habitat is one of our most rewarding missions at Falling Run. You get hands on experience while reconnecting with your natural environment. It's physical work, but good exercise. And it's much appreciated by Falling Run visitors and the native wildlife. Sign up here!
Tuesday, April 16
Make it, Take It Seed Planting Kit
Time: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Location: Mountainlair Lobby near Hatfields Entrance
Stop by and see us the 'Lair to make a free seed planting kit to take home and grow. Themed kits include grow pizza (basil, chive, oregano, and tomato seeds), grow salsa (cilantro, chive, jalapeno, tomato seeds), and grow a salad (carrot, cucumber, kale, and lettuce seeds).
Wednesday, April 17
FREE Electronics Recycling Day
Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: WVU Rec Center Lower Gym
All WVU faculty, staff and students are encouraged to recycle personally-owned electronics to the lower gym area in the WVU Rec Center. Enter gym from the side door near parking Area 49.
Acceptable electronics include:
- computers and laptops
- printers, toner and inkjet cartridges
- cell phones
- cables and wires
Note: NO Televisions, lamps, vacuums, appliances, white goods (e.g., refrigerators and washing machines).
Thursday, April 18
Arbor Day Tree Planting Ceremony
Time: 1 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: LOCATION TBA
Join WVU's Tree Campus Committee as a new tree is planted on the Evansdale campus. Learn more about what this group is doing to protect and care for current trees and how to increase tree diversity on campus.
Tree Planting Party at Falling Run Greenspace
Location: 40 Outlook St Morgantown 26505 (Meet at Falling run Outlook St entrance tool trailer)
Join us to plant hundreds of native saplings at Falling Run Greenspace! Restoring natural habitat is one of our most rewarding missions at Falling Run. You get hands on experience while reconnecting with your natural environment. It's physical work, but good exercise. And it's much appreciated by Falling Run visitors and the native wildlife. Sign up here!
Get Outside
In addition to celebrating Arbor Day, we encourage you to get outside and enjoy nature! Morgantown offers a wide variety of ways to enjoy the great outdoors. Here are some great campus and city resources:
- WVU Core Arboretum (the flowers are in peak bloom!)
- Falling Run Greenspace
- Morgantown BOPARC Trails
- Rail-Trails of North Central WV
- WVU Rec Center Equipment Rentals
Friday, April 19
Office of Off-Campus Housing Litter Clean-up
Time: 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: Mountainlair Green
Join WVU Off-Campus Housing and Office of Sustainability for a campus and communitywide litter cleanup effort! Participating volunteers (whether individual or part of a student organization) will be entered in a chance to receive $500 to go toward an approved initiative or charity of their choice! All clean-up supplies will be provided. Sign up on iServe.
Earth Day On The Green
Time:4 p.m.-8 p.m.
Location: Mountainlair Green
WVU's Sierra Student Coalition is hosting an Earth Day celebration on the Mountainlair Green. Stop by to learn more about local environmental community groups, student organizations.
Sunday, April 21
WVU Department of Biology Spring Ephemeral Wildflower Walks
Time: Noon, 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
Location: WVU Core Arboretum Parking Lot
The Core Arboretum's spring ephemeral wildflowers are a unique sight that makes Morgantown and the Arboretum special. Ephemeral wildflower walks are free guided tours that allow sight-seers to view dozens of plant species in bloom and learn about their ecology and what makes them unique. To keep tour sizes reasonable, we ask that you register in advance. Make sure to dress for hiking and bring your camera!