UTRGV Office For Sustainability

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We’ve been curating stories showing sustainability on and off campus.

If you have a topic that deserves a spotlight, comment down below 👇🏼

Join us this Wednesday in Brownsville! 🐾

Congratulations to the Earth Day baseball winners. 🌎⚾️ Thank you for joining us!

Win a limited-edition Earth Day baseball to celebrate our upcoming Earth Day Game on Saturday, April 18, 2026! ⚾️🌎

✌️How to Enter✌️
Step 1: Follow UTRGV Athletics & UTRGV Office For Sustainability ✅
Step 2: Comment a sustainable habit (Examples: using a reusable water bottle, using a tote bag, thrift shopping, or recycling) & tag 2 friends ♻️💬
Step 3: Share this post 🔁

We are giving away 20 Earth Day Baseballs! 🤩 Winners will be notified by Friday. Participants must be at the game to receive their ball, so make sure you’re in the stands to claim your prize! 🏟️⚾️

Tickets at UTRGVTickets.com 🎟️
UTRGV students get in FREE ✌️

Join us for Borderland Poetics: A Workshop & Reading with Raquel Gutiérrez ✍️

Raquel Gutiérrez is a writer, artist, and educator whose work covers the study of q***r brown life in the Southwest borderlands. Her book Brown Neon was named one of the best books of 2022, and their latest poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction (2025), continues this powerful work.

Event details:
📍 Edinburg —
Date: April 7, 2026
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: (Shary Room ELIBR 1.206) 📍Brownsville —
Date: April 8, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: (Salon Cassia BMAIN 2.402)

For accommodations or questions, call (956) 665-3214.

Meet the Eco-Wranglers 🐎✨

Everyone is welcome!
🗓 Wednesday, April 8 | 12–2PM
📍 Edinburg Campus | Innovation Building 1.123

Let’s Talk About It 🌱

Join us for an open conversation, chance to network, and voice your ideas. We would love to learn more about what YOU would like to see more of when it comes to sustainability on campus.

✅ BTS presentation about sustainability happening on campus
✅ Open discussion with your campus sustainability leaders
✅ Connect with others passionate about making a difference

See you soon!

Way to go Vaqueros! 🧡

Sometimes the smallest actions can have the biggest impact. 🌎 UTRGV and our Office of Sustainability gathered volunteers to clean up South Padre Island. 🏖️