EARTH MONTH 2025
Read on for events happening all April long, brought to you by a wide range of campus partners and student groups
Dartmouth Climate Alliance’s Discussion of What If We Get It Right?
Friday, April 4th | 12pm
Looking for some nourishment and finding community in taking climate action?
Mark your calendars for the Dartmouth Climate Alliance’s discussion on What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on April 4 at noon EST. You can find the book for FREE at the Dartmouth Library or on podcast streaming apps like Libby or Spotify.
To tune into the discussion, enter this zoom link!
Organized by the Dartmouth Climate Alliance
Bipartisan Discussion on
Energy Policy
Monday, April 7th | 5:10pm
Irving Atrium
Join us on Monday, April 7 at 5:10 p.m. in the Irving Institute Atrium for our first program in the 100 Days Speaker Series, featuring former U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and former Department of Energy Chief of Staff Kevin Knobloch.
Organized by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Craft & Climate Series
Thursday, April 10th | 4-7PM
Dartmouth Sustainability Office (IR 180)
Join us for an evening of crafting and community with fellow climate activists! We’ll have craft supplies available, but folks are welcome to bring their own craft projects.
Working on a crochet or knitting project? Bring it with you! Making your way through a new coloring book? Bring it with you! Working on a scrapbook? Bring it with you! Filling up your sketchbook? Bring it with you! Testing out some new watercolors? Bring them with you! All crafts and crafters are welcome.
Please bring you own beverage, snacks will be provided. Come at the beginning or drop in whenever works best for you! There are no rules to Craft and Climate other than to have fun!
Organized by Climate Action NH and Dartmouth Sustainability
April Energy Hour
Wednesday, April 9th | 9AM - 10 AM
Tuesday, April 15th | 12PM - 1 PM
Monday, April 28th | 4PM - 5 PM
Irving Institute Commons, IR-275
Undergraduate students: Meet graduate fellows from Tuck & the Irving Institute and discuss the latest trends and career opportunities in energy & climate!
• Meet other students interested in energy and climate
• Learn about and discuss "hot topics"
• Gain career advice or academic guidance
• Develop graduate-level student mentorship relationships
Organized by the Irving Institute
Climate Justice
with 350NH
Tuesday, April 15 | 12:30PM - 2PM
One Wheelock
Join OPAL in a conversation with 350NH on climate justice and activism. Lunch will be provided!
Organized by OPAL
Planetary Extractions: Climate, Capital, and Racial Futures
Wednesday, April 16th and Thursday, April 17th (various times and locations, please check the schedule of events linked below)
Through Planetary Extractions, we gather scholars, artists, and activists to think through modes of knowledge-production and collaboration that are not extractive within the university, an institutional form created through the extraction and commodification of land, life, and sovereign Indigenous intellectual traditions. Composed of two plenary conversations and three panels, this symposium will engage diverse groups of faculty, post-docs, and students at Dartmouth and create a space dedicated to generating new, interdisciplinary collaborations around the study of race, Indigeneity, and the environment.
Organized by the LALACS, Geography, NAIS, WGSS, Departments and supported by Dartmouth Arts & Sciences Dean of Faculty and the Leslie Center for the Humanities
Fossil Free Dartmouth Earth
Day Learn-in
Monday, April 21 | 4PM
One Wheelock
From event organizers: The goal of the event is to collaboratively learn about the present administration’s impact on the environment, and convert findings into creative outlets like art, poetry, music, and/or social media reels.
Please join us, bring a friend, and share with other folks who may be interested! (We'll have Lou's pastries!)
Organized by Fossil Free Dartmouth
Show Your Stripes Climate Bracelets
April 22nd | 1:30-4PM
Russo Gallery, Dickey Center
#ShowYourStripes was established by climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading. This striking graphic, showing a range of blue to red stripes, represents temperature averages for each year after the industrial revolution. The cool blues to warm reds demonstrate an increase in temperature for over 150 years.
To help raise awareness, climate scientist and consultant Dr. Jenny Baeseman has created bracelet kits that reflect the colors of the stripes for each year. Each stripe, or bead in the bracelet, clearly expresses the warming trend of our planet. We have all experienced the repercussions of a warming planet, and it is especially impactful in polar regions.
On Earth Day, Institute of Arctic Studies and the Dickey Center are holding a community event for students to come together and build their own bracelet. 10% of the proceeds from the kits we have purchased are donated to a non-profit organization that supports our understanding
of climate change, or toward education on
climate change action.
Each bracelet takes around 20 minutes to complete.
Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Dickey Center
Earth Day Celebration
Tuesday, April 22nd | 4-5PM
Fairchild Tower
Join us for an undergraduate/graduate student poster session and an Earth Day Trivia contest! There will be snacks, prizes, community, awesome research!
Please let Chloe (chloe@dartmouth.edu) know if you would like to display a research poster (can be an old/existing poster or a new one).
We look forward to celebrating with you all!
Organized by the EARS, ENVS, GEOG Departments
Climate Collaborative Earth Day Celebration
April 22nd | 5:30PM
Irving Atrium
This Earth Day, join us for a dinner celebration of one year of the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative- Dartmouth's commitment to bold climate action in our operations and academics. Senior leadership, faculty, and students will share climate wins as well as their outlook for future work. RSVP By April 16th to reserve a spot!
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Sponsored by the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative and Dartmouth Sustainability
Doug Tallamay Video Screening
April 22nd | 6:30-8:30PM | Nugget Theatre
A consortium of local organizations will host a special Earth Day screening of prerecorded talks by entomologist Doug Tallamy of Homegrown National Park at the Nugget Theatre in Hanover. After the screening, VT Center for Ecostudies Conservation Scientist Dr. Desiree Narango and Director of Conservation Science Dr. Ryan Rebozo will join Alicia Houk, educator and ecological gardening expert, for a Q&A session. They will discuss native plants, creating insect and bird habitats at home, and strategies for yard rewilding.
Sponsored by the Hanover Garden Club
Phenology I: Plants
April 22nd | 6:30-8:30PM | Dartmouth Organic Farm
Join Matthew Ayres, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth, for a discussion of phenology onsite at the Dartmouth Organic Farm. When will the leaves come out and the birds come back?
This talk will take place rain or shine!
Against the backdrop of springtime in the Connecticut River valley, we invite you to participate in a discussion of the seasonality of plants and animals that make up our local ecosystems.
This is the first of three discussions of phenology at the Dartmouth Organic Farm. The other two will take place at 6:30 p.m. April 29 and 7:30 p.m. May 6 .
Sponsored by the Dartmouth Sustainability Office, Howe Library, and the Hanover Conservancy
Hanover Earth Week Fair for Optimism & Action
April 26th| 3 - 5PM | Richmond Middle School
Join friends, neighbors and local experts at the Richmond Middle School to learn and share how YOU can give back to our wonderful home. Build action plans, enjoy a slice of our big Earth Week cake from King Arthur Baking, and test your luck with multiple chances to win door prizes from local businesses.
More than 15 presenters will help you:
Demystify the landscape of recycling and composting; Kickstart earth-friendly gardens and landscapes;
Reduce fossil fuel use through solar, efficiencies, heat pumps, etc.;
Save money through NH Saves rebates and tax credits; Conserve and protect the Upper Valley’s beautiful forests and waterways; Participate in upcoming local and state legislation; Foster cleaner transportation systems, EV’s and E-bikes; And much, much more!
Everyone is welcome. No entrance fee. Transportation for students provided.
Sponsored by the Dartmouth Sustainability Office and Sustainable Hanover