Memorial University Sustainability and Climate Action Office

On June 24, 12-1:30 pm, join the Beautification Committee outside the library to help with gardening. More info:

gazette.mun.ca

Start composting at home!

🌱 It’s Compost Awareness Week! 🌱

Did you know backyard composting helps cut down on climate-changing emissions while putting valuable carbon back into the soil? That means healthier trees, stronger plants and a greener community. 🌳

The City of St. John’s, in partnership with Memorial University Botanical Garden and MMSB, offers a free backyard composting course—available both in person and online! Learn the basics of composting, reduce household waste and be eligible to purchase a compost bin at a subsidized cost.

Upcoming in-person session (no registration required):
🌱MUN Botanical Garden, 306 Mount Scio Road: Saturday, May 30 from 1 to 2 p.m.

💻 Prefer to learn at your own pace? Online sessions are available anytime.

Start composting, reduce waste, and give back to the earth this week! ♻️ For more information visit: https://loom.ly/cpDwRv0

Here is our full May schedule!!🩵We’re so excited to be back for a full month of cleanups!!🗑️☺️

Deadline is Thursday, May 7 to apply for a bike locker for spring/summer semester on St. John's and Signal Hill campuses. For more information and to apply:

https://www.mun.ca/sustainability/initiatives/transportation/cycling-to-campus/

Scholarship opportunity - deadline May 1!

2026 SAM Student Scholarship Applications Open!

One pillar of the SAM Environmental Stewardship Award is the Student Scholarship - used to recognize students who have gone above and beyond in their community to support wildlife habitat stewardship, demonstrating an active commitment to conservation in Newfoundland and Labrador through their studies or in their free time.

First awarded in 2015, this award is a $1000 scholarship awarded to a student either from or studying in Newfoundland and Labrador whose interests, activities and post-secondary goals are focused on the conservation of habitat in this province. Students can nominate themselves or be nominated by a teacher, peer, community member, etc.

Learn more and apply/nominate a student here: https://www.samnl.org/environmental-steward-award

The deadline to apply is May 1st, 2026.

Are you cycling to campus this spring/summer? Bike lockers are available to rent for the semester. Deadline to apply is Thursday, May 7, 2026.
For more info and to apply, visit the website:

https://www.mun.ca/sustainability/initiatives/transportation/cycling-to-campus/

Cycling to campus | Sustainability and Climate Action Office Locations and Fees

WE’RE BACK!!!🥳 Join us for our first cleanup of the season THIS SUNDAY May 3rd at 1pm. We will meet at the clock tower 🗑️🚬

Check out the Gazette for their Earth Day focus on great sustainability work at Memorial!

Healthy planet, healthy humans Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine’s first Planetary Health Report Card will be released today, Earth Day.

Join Dr. Angela Carter on May 5 for this important topic.

Managing The Oil Phase Out: Building Economic and Climate Security

🗓 Tuesday, May 5
⏰ 6:30 — 7:30
📍 AC Hunter Public Library

Join Dr. Angela Carter (Political Science) for this discussion about the economic and environmental need to transition Newfoundland and Labrador’s economy from depending on oil extraction. What will it look like? How we can get started?

Register today:
https://nlpl.ca/events/managing-the-oil-phase-out-building-economic-and-climate-security/