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Sustainability Committee (SE)

Learn more about sustainability initiatives at TCC Southeast Campus and resources to help you add sustainability to your life.

Certified Bee Campus USA Affiliate

Tarrant County College Southeast Campus is proud to be a Bee Campus USA Affiliate. Campuses that participate in this program commit to creating sustainable habitats for pollinators and meeting certain criteria:

  1. Create a Bee Campus USA Committee to oversee pollinator and education efforts
  2. Develop and maintain a Campus Pollinator Habitat Plan
  3. Host an annual campus event to raise awareness about pollinators and acknowledge the institution's Bee Campus status.
  4. Sponsor and track student service-learning opportunities for improving pollinator habitats.
  5. Offer a pollinator protection workshop at least biennially and/or incorporate pollinator protection topics into the curriculum.
  6. Post educational signage about pollinators and their habitats.
  7. Maintain a webpage to share news and information about local Bee Campus USA activities.

Please join us for our annual Arbor Day celebration in April to learn more about local pollinators and their habitat requirements! 

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Native Texas Plants for Pollinators

Pollinator Books

The Bees in Your Backyard book cover

The Bees in Your Backyard provides an engaging introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field.

Our Native Bees book cover

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees--endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies--is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Our Native Bees explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture.

Why Do Bees Buzz? book cover

Why Do Bees Buzz? reports on the mysterious "colony collapse disorder" that has affected honey bee populations, as well as other captivating topics, such as their complex, highly social lives, and how other species of bees are unique and different from honey bees. 

Bumble Bees of North America book cover

Bumble Bees of North America is the essential guide for identifying bumble bees.

Protecting Pollinators book cover

Protecting Pollinators details the importance of pollinators, who fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy.