Celebrate Earth Day
Join us to honor and celebrate our remarkable planet on this extraordinary day. Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future. This year it is officially on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 but at UC Davis we celebrate the day, the week and the month!
At UC Davis, Earth Day events can highlight sustainable efforts happening across all of our campuses from natural resource conservation and recycling, to social sustainability topics including community development and human rights. You also may be interesting in celebrating Earth Day by participating in any or all of EARTHDAY.ORG's initiatives.
Have an Earth Day event you would like to share?
Email sustainabilty@ucdavis.edu with the details!
Earth Week events in the UC Davis Community
Date | Description | Details |
Everyday in April | Virtual | Earth Month Bingo (Sacramento campus only) How to Play:
Earn a bonus entry when you submit a photo of yourself completing an action. | Learn more |
Submissions Open 3/31 to 4/11 | Virtual | SHDS Sustainability Earth Day Contest 2025 – Only open to SHDS residents Earth Day is a celebration of everything wonderful about the planet that sustains us, and a call for action to preserve and protect it. To mark the occasion, SHDS residents are invited to get inspired and create a work of art on Earth Day 2025 based on the theme “Our Power, Our Planet”. The creation can take many forms, including painting, drawing, embroidery, crochet, knitting, poetry, fashion, photography, digital art. | Learn more |
Wednesdays, 4/2 to 5/28, 10 a.m. - 1:30pm. | Student Community Center | Sustainability tabling at the Farmers Market Stop by and say hi to learn about sustainability initiatives at UC Davis and actions — big and small — that you can take every day to reduce your own environmental footprint. | Learn more |
4/2-4/4 & 4/23-4/25, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Wellman Hall | Sheep Mowers events Come watch UC Davis sheep mow the lawn in front of Wellman Hall and check out the sheep-related activities we'll have throughout the day. Learn all about the dorper breed - our iconic hair sheep! | Learn more |
4/5, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Hunt Hall | Aggie Day Screen Printing SED club is hosting a screen printing booth with Davis inspired prints! Check out clothing, items and clothing canvases | Learn more |
4/7 to 4/26 | Virtual | ASUCD Cool Campus Challenge This Earth Month, participate in the Cool Campus Challenge! 🌎🌱 What is the Cool Campus Challenge?
How do you participate?
| Learn more |
4/22, 10 a.m. - 3p.m. | West Quad | Earth Day Waste Audit Spend your Earth Day with the Sustainability and ASUCD Coffee House teams to help our campus get closer to our Zero Waste goals! | Learn more |
4/22, 12 - 1 p.m. | Cypress Building | Light Rail Field Trip Never taken the light rail before? Now is your chance to try it for free with guidance from UC Davis Health's transit experts. Join the Green Commuter Program team for a field trip on the Gold Line Light Rail. Lunches will be provided. Space is limited, so register now! | Learn more |
4/23, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Education Building Outdoor Rotunda | Earth Month Celebration
| Learn more |
4/24, 12 - 1 p.m. | 45th and X St | Sustainability Walking Tour Join the Director of Sustainability, Kristina Bair, and Sarah Janus on a walking tour around the beautiful medical center campus. Learn about more than a dozen sustainable points of interest, covering approximately one mile. No reservation is needed! Simply pop on your sneakers, grab a (reusable) water bottle, and meet at the corner of 45th and X St. | Learn more |
- Past Earth Day celebrations
2023
UC Davis vs UC Berkeley Sustainability Challenge, April 3 - 28, 2023, To participate visit: https://www.coolcampuschallenge.org/UCDvsUCB2023
ASUCD Environmental Planning & Policy Commission (EPPC) Environmental Law Seminar, Tuesday, April 18, 2023 6:00pm @ Olson 206
Reusable Utensil Giveaway, Tuesday, April 18, 2023 11:00 - 1:00pm @ ASUCD CoHo, For more information visit zerowaste.ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Farmers Market Earth Week, Wednesday, April 19, 2023 10:00 - 1:30pm @ Student Community Center Entrance, Reusable utensil giveaway and educational zero waste activities!
Aggie Surplus Free E-Waste Drop-Off , Thursday, April 20, 2023 10:00 - noon @ Hopkins Services Complex, Event details
Zero Waste Musical Festival, Sunday April 23, 2023 3:00 - 7:00pm @ Central Park, Downtown Davis; Sponsored by UC Davis Zero Waste & Sustainability Club and the City of Davis Community Development and Sustainability Department
Cool Davis Earth Day Pledge Challenge, Sunday April 23, 2023 4:00 - 5:00pm @ Yolo County Library Stephens Davis Branch, https://www.cooldavis.org/earthdaypledgechallenge
2021
In 2021, UC Davis continued this "pandemic tradition" with another round of "virtual" Earth Month events.
2020
In April 2020, UC Davis – led by the Sustainability office in collaboration with other departments across the university – celebrated the 50-year anniversary of Earth Day with Earth Month, a series of events and initiatives beginning April 1 and concluding the last day of the Whole Earth Festival, Sunday, May 10 – Mother’s Day. We shifted events from in person to online in response to the pandemic.