Earth Jam

Booths from 14 organizations offering information about how to get involved in sustainability efforts. There will be food from Idaho Eats, a used bike auction and native seed pouches to help local pollinators. Music by local band The Moscow Mules, featuring UI biology professor Paul Hohenlohe, Washington State University geology professor Sean Long and UI music and psychology undergraduate student Elias Paxton. Attendees can take home a free house plant and use a screen printer from the Library’s MILL to make commemorative Earth Jam 2023 T-shirts with second-hand clothing. Sustainability-focused events are planned throughout April: The Soil Stewards Student Farm needs volunteers to assist with farm prep 4:30-5 p.m. Thursday, April 13, at Get Dirty. * Community members are encouraged to use alternative transportation to commute to work the week of April 17, which is Bike to Work Week. Any Vandal who uses alternative transportation more than three times that week, such as biking, walking or carpooling, can tag @uisustainability on Instagram or submit a photo to ssc@uidaho.edu to be entered to win a sustainable commute prize basket. * The focus is on biodiversity from April 28 to May 1 with the City Nature Challenge, when people in Moscow are encouraged to download the iNaturalist app and take photos of bugs, plants and other animals to contribute to knowledge about Palouse species. * Earth Month wraps up with Plant the Palouse from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 29 on the Theophilus Tower Lawn, a partnership with the Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute that buses volunteers to sites in Troy to help plant trees.