Learning With Trees: A Campus Tree Library for Climate Change Education and Ecological Care

CCESS2026 "Ways of Knowing in Climate Change Education" October 14-15, 2026 Virtual Session B "Learning With Trees: A Campus Tree Library for Climate Change Education and Ecological Care" 1:00- 2:00 PM "Learning With Trees: A Campus Tree Library for Climate Change Education and Ecological Care" Interactive Panel Discussion by Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Annika Mekis, Leigh Rupinski, and Lindsay Stankus, GVSU, USA This panel introduces the Tree Library project and explores its connection to climate education through interspecies care, natural-cultural archiving, and place-based learning. The Tree Library is a digital collection of tree species in Grand Valley State University's Arboretum that promotes campus spaces as a living classroom where students build ecological literacy and develop relationships with the more-than-human world.