Celebrate Earth Month this April with the Office of Climate & Sustainability!

JHU 2026 Earth Month schedule at a glance.

Johns Hopkins University is celebrating Earth Month this April with a packed schedule of events! Departments, offices, student organizations, and centers are organizing talks and panels to discuss climate research and solutions, planning outdoor programming to connect students and staff to nature, hosting swaps and repair events to encourage waste reduction, and collaborating on additional joint programs to bring Earth Month to people across the university.

Is your organization, department, or club planning a climate- or sustainability-related event during Earth Month? Submit it here so we can highlight it on our Earth Month page and add it to our regular calendar of events.

Office of Climate & Sustainability Events

Additional events may be added, so keep an eye out on our socials!

Earth Month Events Across Campus

Additional events TBA.

Check out our full calendar of events for additional events happening at JHU, across Baltimore, and beyond!

Earth Day is officially held on April 22nd each year, and has expanded to include the entire month of April. The goal is to raise awareness around environmental issues and encourage an everyday, ingrained commitment and attention to environmental action, impact, and justice.

The first Earth Day, organized by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson and environmental activist Denis Hayes in 1970, came after decades of environmentally unregulated industrial growth, punctuated by public-facing disasters like fish kills, rivers on fire, and a 3-million-gallon oil spill. Inspired by the model of recent anti-war teach-ins, Earth Day was meant to ignite a burst of energy and political impetus. Learn more about the history of Earth Day here. 

Behind Johns Hopkins’ upcoming Earth Month celebrations is a broader foundation built on a history of sustainability champions like Rachel Carson – Hopkins alumna and pioneer of the modern environmental movement. Today, it is grounded in strategic planning and ambitious climate action, like reaching our goal of 51% carbon emissions reductions three years early! While Earth Day is a special moment of visibility, this progress is created every day through collaboration across the university’s campuses, institutes, and departments. As outlined in JHU’s Climate Action and Sustainability Plan, released in October 2024, this collective effort is ongoing, with places to get involved for many Earth Days to come.

Today, Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world. At a time when we need collective action more than ever, lean into this as an opportunity to connect with and build community! Attend an Earth Month event at Hopkins, online, or in your community, gather friends for a clothing swap, share your thoughts on social media, organize a teach-in, discussion, or book club, or encourage your local and federal representatives to take action – whatever you participate in, make it collaborative and make it impactful.

The global theme for Earth Day this year is “Our Power, Our Planet,” calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy so we can triple clean electricity by 2030.