Current Opportunities
BYU Green Week
Twice a year, BYU Sustainability invites campus community members to care for the earth and one another through service, discussion, and more. Find details here.
- 3/29: Prayer for Great Salt Lake, 8pm, online
- 3/30: Mulch & Mingle, 7pm, LaVell Edwards Stadium, SE parking lot
- 3/31: Mapathon! 3pm, WSC Garden Court RSVP
- 4/1: Community Night, 6:30pm, WSC 3380
- 4/2: Disciple-Steward Lecture, 4 pm, HBLL 1060
- 4/3: Stuff Swap, 9am-5pm, Y Terrace
GIS Workshop Series
The BYU Library's Geospatial Services Lab, a BYU Sustainability partner, is hosting weekly workshops (Wednesdays at 4pm in HBLL 2223) throughout the semester. Learn about geographic information systems and develop skills for research projects, class assignments, and work projects. No GIS background is required. Register here.
Other On-campus Events
- 2/12: Valentines Heart Walk (Geography, Geospatial Lab)
2/16: Environmental Policy Discussion with Rep. Tyler Clancy (Grow the Flow, BYU Chapter)
- 2/20: Mapathon service project at BYU 150 Night of Light, 6pm, HBLL 2212 (Geospatial Lab)
- 2/21: 35th Annual Hunger Banquet, 7pm, WSC Ballroom (Students for International Development)
- 2/25: Deadline for BYU study abroad, Ecuador Sustainable Development & Biodiversity (Kennedy Center)
- 3/5: Quey Hebrew Lecture: Environmental Concerns with Uranium Mining Near the Grand Canyon, 7pm, ESC C215
- 3/12: Well + Wise Lecture with BYU Sustainability’s Bremen Leak, noon, Varsity Theater (Employee Wellness)
- 3/12-13: Do Good. Better. Conference (Ballard Center)
- 3/13: Pi Day: Check Your PIESS (Belonging)
- 3/13: Antarctica Unearthed Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (Biology)
- 3/19: BYU Wildfire Symposium (Civil and Construction Engineering)
- 3/26: Air Quality: Science for Solutions Conference (Civil and Construction Engineering)
- 3/28: Community Garden Clean-Up (Civic Engagement)
- Ongoing: "Change the Climate" Exhibition, BYU Bean Life Science Museum
Off-campus Events with BYU Sustainability Partners
- 1/31: Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake (Grow the Flow)
- 2/28: February Book Club with Sharon Eubank, author of Doing Small Things with Great Love (Latter-day Saint Earth Stewardship)
- 3/12: Act Local Community Night (Engage: A Forum for Civic Renewal)
- 3/19-20: Intermountain Sustainability Summit (Weber State University)
- 3/19-20: Wallace Stegner Center Symposium (University of Utah)
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities
Campus
- Global Environmental Studies Club: Help plan student-led activities on campus. Sign up or see Instagram.
- Community Clean-up: Volunteer with Y-Serve on Saturdays in fall and winter semester. Meet by Jamba Juice at 8:50am to carpool. Projects end by 11:30am. More
Community
- Latter-day Saint Earth Stewardship: Volunteer, join a local chapter, or attend an event. More
- BikeWalk Provo: Make Provo safe, convenient, and fun for all people to get around by bike or foot. More
- Conserve Utah Valley: Help with Slate Canyon Saturdays and other local projects. More
- Grow the Flow: Inspire change to save the Great Salt Lake, a precious ecosystem. More
- Provo's Sustainability and Natural Resources Committee: Volunteer with local advocates. More
I see … your commitment to a more sustainable future…. I would hope you will continue to find creative solutions to help protect the future for all of God’s children in the world. We are inhabitants of the same planet, and we are dependent upon each other for our mutual survival, happiness, and peace.
Elder M. Russell Ballard in a BYU devotional on March 3, 2020