This year, Earth Day is Monday, April 22. To celebrate, the University of Idaho’s Student Sustainability Cooperative is hosting their third annual event, Earth Jam, on the same day in the ISUB Plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
According to Mairen Chard, the sustainability coordinator for the Department of Student Involvement, Earth Jam is an exciting event where students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to celebrate the earth and learn more about sustainability.
“Earth Jam is SSC’s annual Earth Day celebration. We have a whole bunch of stuff planned and essentially it is a celebration of earth. We invite community organizations as well as student clubs to come and talk about what makes them sustainable and how they practice sustainability or environmental conservation,” Chard said.
There will be about 30 tables of student clubs and community organizations to visit and learn more about sustainability in the Moscow community. There will also be free food, live music from Will Fontaine and activity stations such as a T-shirt screen printing station, seed bomb making station and a house plant adoption station. UI surplus has also donated five used bikes to raffle off at Earth Jam.
“We want to make (Earth Jam) a safe space for everyone to come and enjoy and to introduce themselves to things that we all have in common: this planet and all that really goes together with sustainability,” said Chard.
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