UNR Earth Day at Lake Tahoe Apr 24

The University of Nevada, Reno will host an Earth Day celebration at its Lake Tahoe campus on Friday, April 24, with hands-on activities, booths, food trucks and live music. (unr.edu) The free event is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, according to the university’s events calendar. (unr.edu) The campus listing says the program will center on sustainability, community and environmental awareness, with outdoor activities designed around Lake Tahoe’s natural setting. (unr.edu) The event lands during Earth Week, when colleges, cities and nonprofits typically stage cleanups, educational fairs and volunteer projects tied to the April 22 observance. Earth Day began in 1970 and is widely credited with helping build support for modern U.S. environmental policy. (earthday.org) At Nevada, the Tahoe gathering is part of a broader Earth Month lineup that also includes a farmer’s market, a campus planting event and clothing exchange activities in Reno. The university’s Nevada Today site said the April programming is meant to connect sustainability with student life and public outreach. (unr.edu) University President Brian Sandoval said in an April 20 campus message that Nevada has expanded sustainability work through programs including a Sustainability Certificate at the Lake Tahoe campus and a university minor in sustainability. (unr.edu) The Lake Tahoe campus has increasingly used public events to draw local residents onto the site, alongside lectures, gallery programs and summer arts programming listed on its events page. (unr.edu) For Friday’s Earth Day event, the university’s listing names Jenni Charles and Jesse Dunn of Dead Winter Carpenters as the live performers. The setup points to a campus event aimed as much at community turnout as at classroom programming. (unr.edu)