Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival

09/13/2024

https://www.yourtahoeplace.com/events/community-cleanups

05/07/2024

04/29/2024

Team Shout Out: A great set of weekends as outreach rockstars!

The team served 633 Taste Tests between three drinking waters. Tahoe Tap received 491 best taste votes for 78%. The full results are below.

Water #1: North Tahoe PUD, 188 votes
Water #2: Tahoe City PUD, 303 votes
Water #3: bottled Arrowhead, 142 votes.

Next up is South Lake Tahoe Earth Day. We’ll be serving up drinking water from South Tahoe PUD, Incline Village GID, and bottled Arrowhead.

Totals for the DRINK TAHOE TAP ® Earth Day Festivals
TASTE TESTS: 910 Total Taste tests!

Tahoe Truckee Earth Day () 4/20
The team served 633 Taste Tests between three drinking waters. Tahoe Tap received 491 best taste votes for 78%.
Water #1: North Tahoe PUD, 188 votes
Water #2: Tahoe City PUD, 303 votes
Water #3: bottled Arrowhead, 142 votes.

South Lake Tahoe Earth Day: the second round of the Drink Tahoe Tap-Taste Test went smoothly at South Lake Tahoe Community College on Saturday 4/27 . The team photo is attached.

The South Lake Event had much lower attendance than the North Lake Tahoe event, and the team served 277 Taste Tests, with 204 votes for tap water.
Water #1: Incline Village GID, 99 votes
Water #2: South Tahoe PUD, 105 votes
Water #3: bottled Arrowhead, 73 votes

03/27/2024

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/tahoe-water-bottle-ban-19369721.php

Truckee's ban on single-use plastic water bottles goes into effect on Earth Day.

12/12/2023

There are ways to reduce litter; it takes restrictions. Truckee has enacted a single use item fee for to-go items! Reduce the watershed litter load and ten there is money for cleanup as well. Bravo Truckee!

What’s the deal with single-use foodware in Truckee? Single-use items like plastic utensils, coffee cups and straws are part of our everyday lives. After intense environmental inputs to produce these items, they are used once and end up in our landfills, environment, streams, lakes, and oceans fo...

11/15/2022

EPA celebrates the 25th anniversary of America Recycles Day (ARD) on November 15, 2022.

04/12/2022

HERE IS THE EVENT FLYER!

03/30/2022

FESTIVAL is on !

The largest Earth Day celebrations in the area, the free community event takes place at the Village at Palisades Tahoe from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

03/05/2022

Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival 2022..... is ON! Details to follow, but save the date for celebrating Earth Day together on 4/23/2022 11 am - 5pm; Palisades Tahoe.

05/06/2021

UBC student-led project sought to understand public perception on bears and conflict mitigation strategies