Earth Week Challenge

• Join the Earth Day Cleanup with Keep Tahoe Blue on Monday April 22!
• Download the Citizen Science Tahoe App and help scientists find solutions to Tahoe’s environmental threats.
• Use or make a reusable grocery bag out of an old t-shirt – VIDEO
• Attend the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this evening at Valhalla Theater, hosted by SNA.

What to Wear: Colors of the Rainbow

• 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.
• Watch the new Drink Tahoe Tap music video!
• Learn more about the new single use plastic bottle ban that just went into effect in South Lake Tahoe HERE.

What to Wear: Blue for clean water

• Download the Tahoe Nature Activity Book for a month worth of nature activities.
• Join the dark sky movement and turn off outside lights at night to protect wildlife and save energy.
• Go birdwatching and record what birds you find HERE!
• Do your part to Keep Wildlife Wild by securing trash with bear-proof bins.

What to Wear: Animal print or animal-themed shirt

• Bike to school or work today!
• Sign up for Tahoe Bike Month, celebrated the entire month of June.
• Learn how to prep your bike for the new season here.
• Walk, bike, roll or take a bus or microtransit to get around town. 
• Calculate your Carbon Footprint

What to Wear: White for clean clouds

• Keep your home and forest safe. Prepare for fire by visiting the Tahoe Living With Fire website.
• Rake pine needles for defensible space – be sure to keep any trash out of your green waste so that it can be composted. Drop off here.
• Learn Washoe names and pronunciations of native plants & animals!
• Stay up to date on the latest fire regulations! 
• Watch A Fire For All video — FOREST⇌FIRE 

What to Wear: Red to prevent wildfire

• Visit the South Tahoe Earth Day Festival at Lake Tahoe Community College and learn how to love the environment. 
• 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:  Green for Earth Day!