UC San Diego Earth Day Festival

UC San Diego plans a four-hour Earth Day festival on Wednesday, April 22, with student groups, nonprofits and public agencies gathering on Sun God Lawn. (calendar.ucsd.edu) The festival is scheduled for noon to 4 p.m. on the La Jolla campus, and the university calendar says it will feature more than 50 student organizations, campus departments, environmental nonprofits and public agencies. (calendar.ucsd.edu) UC San Diego says the event will include guided yoga, hands-on workshops, free vegan meals for the first 1,000 attendees, and giveaway items including water bottles, gift cards and other sustainable products. Daylight San Diego’s Earth Month roundup also lists a clothing swap and climate talks as part of the campus event. (calendar.ucsd.edu) (daylightsandiego.org) The university describes the festival as a campus-wide celebration of sustainability, environmental justice and “collective climate action,” and says it is meant to connect students with ways to stay involved after April 22. (calendar.ucsd.edu) That pitch lands in a larger Earth Month push across San Diego. Daylight San Diego published a regional guide to festivals, workshops and volunteer events this month, and the San Diego Tourism Authority has also highlighted Earth Month programming across the county. (daylightsandiego.org) (sandiego.org) The UC San Diego event is being co-hosted by the Center for Student Involvement, the Student Sustainability Collective and the Associated Students Office of Environmental Justice, according to the campus calendar listing. (calendar.ucsd.edu) Earth Day falls on Wednesday this year, and UC San Diego’s listing places the festival outdoors at Sun God Lawn, turning the observance into a midday campus fair rather than a weekend event. (calendar.ucsd.edu)