UC San Diego Earth Day Festival 2026

UC San Diego will hold its 2026 Earth Day Festival on Wednesday, April 22, with four hours of climate programming, student groups and giveaways at Sun God Lawn. (calendar.ucsd.edu) The event runs from noon to 4 p.m. Pacific time and is billed as a campus-wide celebration of sustainability, environmental justice and climate action. UC San Diego’s events calendar says more than 50 student organizations, campus departments, nonprofits and public agencies are expected to take part. (calendar.ucsd.edu) Organizers say the festival will double as a volunteer and career fair, alongside guided yoga sessions, hands-on workshops and free vegan meals for the first 1,000 attendees. The campus listing also advertises giveaway items including water bottles, gift cards and other sustainable goods. (calendar.ucsd.edu) Daylight San Diego’s Earth Month roundup adds that the festival will include climate talks and a clothing swap, placing the campus event inside a wider April calendar of cleanups, swaps and community festivals across the county. (daylightsandiego.org) That countywide framing reflects how Earth Day now stretches well beyond April 22 in San Diego. The San Diego Tourism Authority’s 2026 Earth Month guide lists UC San Diego alongside other regional events, from neighborhood festivals to educational programs tied to this year’s “Our Power, Our Planet” theme. (sandiego.org, govisitsandiego.com) UC San Diego has put sustainability at the center of the event’s pitch, emphasizing action after the festival ends. The calendar description says the goal is to connect students with ways to get involved beyond Earth Day itself. (calendar.ucsd.edu) The timing is also literal: April 22, 2026 falls on a Wednesday, and the festival appears on the university’s day-by-day events calendar and the Sun God Lawn venue calendar for that date. That makes the campus gathering one of the school’s main public Earth Day observances this year. (calendar.ucsd.edu, calendar.ucsd.edu) For students and San Diegans looking for a single stop on Earth Day itself, the format is straightforward: show up at Sun God Lawn between noon and 4 p.m., meet environmental groups, join a workshop or swap, and leave with a meal or a next step. (calendar.ucsd.edu, daylightsandiego.org)