Climate Week 2026

The Planet Blue Ambassador Training is your entry-point to sustainability on campus. Learn more about UM-Flint's campus sustainability initiatives and U-M's commitment to carbon neutrality. You'll become a certified Planet Blue Ambassador at the end of this training, something you can put on resumes and CVs!

We’re celebrating Climate Week with a tri-campus Day of Service. Join UM-Flint Planet Blue Ambassadors, the Thompson Seed Library, and the UM-Flint Staff Walking Club as we provide opportunities for you to give back!

We have 3 sites to choose from. Please register to the speciifc site you'd like to attend.

Choose your own adventure, or if you have the time, attend more than one opportunity during this year’s Day of Service!

We've invited Angela Nelson from East Michigan Native Plants to give a workshop on the dos and don'ts of saving seeds from native plants. Participants will take home some of the seeds they helped to process.

EMNP specializes in growing pesticide-free Michigan native wildflowers and grasses, with a focus on plants that are important to our native pollinators, birds, amphibians and reptiles.

This event will be livestreamed. Virtual attendance is encouraged. 

Join award-winning forager, outdoor educator, and James Beard Award winner Alexis Nikole Nelson for a lively conversation about wild foods, sustainability, and the rich cultural traditions connected to the plants growing all around us. With more than 5 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, Alexis has become a beloved social media creator who inspires audiences to see the natural world in a new way while exploring the intersections of food, history, and environmental stewardship. Through storytelling, humor, and practical insights, she invites us to reconnect with the land.

Interested in creating a junk journal but you're not sure where to start? Or maybe you have a junk journal that you need to update with all of your most recent junk? Either way, come by the UCEN 3rd floor loft space for Junk Journaling 101!

Junk Journaling is a sustainable activity that includes a handmade book that is created by using recycled, reusable, or secondhand materials. This includes ticket stubs, wristbands, letters, food packaging, or anything else that you may want to hold onto. These types of journals can include writing, collages, and any other mixed media art. How you design your junk journal in entirely up to you! To learn more about junk journaling, check out this page: https://www.margaretemiller.com/blog/what-i-wish-i-knew-as-a-junk-journal-beginner

We encourage students to bring their own "junk" and any other supplies they wish to use. However, we will have plenty of supplies to use, especially if you're just starting out!

This Climate Week event is free and open to all students! Feel free to drop by anytime between 12pm-2pm!

Calling all students, faculty, and staff interested in sustainability on-campus! Select Flint students actively engaged in sustainability work on- and off-campus will present what they’ve learned in their recent sustainability experiences during lightning talks.

After the presentations, meet sustainability organizations and programs that provide sustainability opportunities that you can get involved in, including the upcoming Michigan Climate Action Fellowship.

This event will be hybrid, please register and we will send a Zoom link closer to the event!

Food will be provided!

Did you love The Mending Lab? Well we’re bringing it back this Fall in a whole new way with focused workshops and some refreshments while you learn.

One Monday a month, we’ll host a workshop with FPA to help you repair your much loved items that you can’t bring yourself to throw away yet. Try your hand at a new skill each month. Want to learn the skill but don’t have the garment? No worries! We’ve partnered with Wolverine Essentials to provide a limited supply of clothing or accessory items for you to practice on and make your own.

This month’s Mending Cafe, we’ll be teaching you how to do quick and easy repairs on your most loved jewelry pieces. Bring what you have and we’ll show you how to make it wearable again.

Win prizes by getting involved with Climate Week! Complete four activities in a row, column, or diagonal on the tri-campus bingo card, and choose a sustainability prize from the Planet Blue Ambassador Program. Access the card using the registration link! Collect your prize starting October 5th!