Earth Week Challenge

• Practice the Leave No Trace principles to protect the environment.
• Go on a hike - blaze a trail of kindness in a new place.
• Watch Protect Lake Tahoe with Generation Green and the USFS!

What to Wear: Yellow to celebrate getting outside in the sun

• Download the Citizen Science Tahoe App and help scientists find solutions to Tahoe’s environmental threats.
• Join the dark sky movement and turn off outside lights at night to protect migrating wildlife and save energy.
• Walk, bike, roll, or take a bus or microtransit to get around town.

What to Wear: Colors of the Rainbow

•  Go on a cleanup and post what you find on the Citizen Science Tahoe app.
• Download the Tahoe Nature Activity Book for a month's worth of nature activities.
• Use or make a reusable grocery bag out of an old t-shirt – VIDEO.
• RSVP for the Earth Day Cleanup tomorrow.
• Do your part to Keep Wildlife Wild by securing trash with bear-proof bins, be BearWise.

What to Wear: Animal print or animal-themed shirt

• Join the League to save Lake Tahoe for their Earth Day Lake Clean up!
• Support the Sierra's by buying tickets and attending the Wild and Scenic Film Fest!
• Walk, bike, roll or take a bus or microtransit to get around town. 

What to Wear:  Green for Earth Day

• Fill your reusable water bottle with Tahoe Tap and help eliminate microplastics from polluting our waterways.
• Check out the Drink Tahoe Tap Refill Station Map to learn where you can fill up for free.
• Move away from plastic use to help keep our planet clean!

What to Wear: Blue for clean water

• Join a tree planting event with the Sugar Pine Foundation.
• Learn Washoe names and pronunciations of native plants & animals!
• Find a local nursery and plant local plants!
• Stay up to date on the latest fire regulations! 
• Watch A Fire For All video — FOREST⇌FIRE 

What to Wear: Red to prevent wildfire