BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sierra Nevada Alliance - ECPv6.2.9//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sierra Nevada Alliance X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sierranevadaalliance.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sierra Nevada Alliance REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T170000 DTSTAMP:20240328T081956 CREATED:20200420T202429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200420T202847Z UID:1159-1587369600-1587402000@sierranevadaalliance.org SUMMARY:Take Care Tahoe\, Tahoe -Truckee Earth Week Activities DESCRIPTION:Despite the current global situation\, we can still celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day our own way!\nBelow you will find a combination of Earth Week and Climate Action themed activities that can be done in or around your home\, as well as instructional videos.\n\nMother Nature Monday: 4/20/20\n  \n \nAction: Help plan & eat 3 meals without any meat (No beef\, chicken\, fish\, or pork) \nActivity: Wild Weeklong Scavenger Hunt by Tahoe Institute for Natural Sciences \nWhat to Wear: Animal print or animal themed shirt \nExtra Credit: Keep Wildlife Wild Activity from the U.S. Forest Service\, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit \nActivity: Ask about where your family puts its garbage on garbage pick up day.  It is safe enough from bears? What about your recycling? \nNow look where your neighbors put their garbage and recycling? Is it safe? Do you think your neighborhood is working together to protect wildlife? If not\, how can you do better as a neighborhood? \nMore resources: TINS TaHome Educational Program \, California State Parks Earth Week Activities \n  \n  \n\nTransportation Tuesday: 4/21/20\n  \n \nAction: Register for the 2020 Tahoe Bike Challenge here and get ready to ride for fun and prizes beginning June 1st \nActivity: Go for a walk\, bike\, or ride the FREE bus with your family\, instead of driving for errands \nWhat to Wear: White for clean clouds \nExtra Credit: Watch the Bike Coalition and TRPA’s Ready to Ride – VIDEO \nMore Resources: Learn more about the Tahoe Trail\, new trail data\, upcoming trail projects\, and e-bikes during this TRPA Webinar \n  \n  \n  \n\nWaste-Free Wednesday: 50th Anniversary of Earth Day (4/22/20)\n  \n \nAction: Prepare a meal with little or no packaging you will throw away\, think fruits and veggies! \nActivity: Learn how much trash you make each day with the League to Save Lake Tahoe’s Trash Audit – VIDEO \nWhat to Wear: Blue for recycling bins \nExtra Credit: Participate in the community trash clean-up and pick up trash in your neighborhood with Keep Tahoe Blue \nMore Resources: Join Sierra Nevada Alliance for their virtual Wild & Scenic Film Festival \, Tahoe Rim Trail Presents: 7 Leave No Trace Principles of the Tahoe Rim Trail \n  \n  \n  \n\nThrifty Thursday: 4/23/20\n  \nAction: Save Energy! Turn of lights when you’re not in the room and unplug unused appliances and chargers \nActivity: Make a reusable grocery bag out of an old t-shirt from Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships – VIDEO \nWhat to Wear: Orange because it’s fun \nExtra Credit: Food Waste: What You’re Really Wasting by Town of Truckee – VIDEO \nMore Resources: Join SWEP for Earth Hour or Calculate your Carbon Footprint \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nFlourishing Friday: 4/24/20\n  \n \nAction: Plant a seed from your lunch! Apples\, tomatoes\, lemons\, cucumbers are all great options – VIDEO \nActivity: Make a simple homemade hummingbird feeder to help pollinators: – VIDEO \nWhat to Wear: Green for the growing plants \nExtra Credit: Plant a Sugar Pine Tree! – Planting Instructions Here from the Sugar Pine Foundation \nGrab a seedling from South Lake Tahoe school lunch pick-up locations\, or these 5 locations around Tahoe: \n• 1458 Mt Rainier Dr\, South Lake Tahoe\, CA 96150 \n• 1600 Glenwood Way\, South Lake Tahoe\, CA 96150 \n• Tunnel Creek Cafe at 1115 Tunnel Creek Rd suite a\, Incline Village\, NV 89451 \n• 8777 Speckled Ave\, Kings Beach\, CA 96143 \n• Mountain Hardware at 11320 Donner Pass Rd\, Truckee\, CA 96161 \nMore Resources: Talking Trees Lesson by SWEP \n  URL:https://sierranevadaalliance.org/event/take-care-tahoe-tahoe-truckee-earth-week-activities/ LOCATION:CA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sierranevadaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Bear_Curious-225x300-1-e1587414502235.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR