Earth Day Festival: April 19, 2025 from 12-5pm

Save the Date for the 2nd Annual Earth Day Festival!
Join the 2025 Earth Day Festival at the Ithaca Commons on Saturday, April 19. From noon to 5 pm, enjoy fun, family-friendly activities, resources, food, and music as we celebrate how together we are protecting the planet and communities.
Learn about actionable climate solutions that are both possible and attainable. Explore sustainable ways to reduce waste, lower energy costs, grow and cook food, and more. Together, we can take action to create a livable and vibrant tomorrow!
Please take a survey so that we may better serve you for future programs, and (optional) enter your email for a chance to win a $25 Wegmans Gift Card!
Help spread the word
Click the links below to share the Save the Date poster, flyer, or Facebook Event with your contacts.
Donate Materials or Volunteer
Volunteer your mending skills or donate materials for the Earth Day Festival Clothing Swap & Mend
Earth Day Festival Hosts and Partners
The Earth Day Festival is hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Tompkins County in collaboration with the City of Ithaca and significant partners.
This year’s Earth Day Festival will feature just a taste of some local food programs and vendors.
Serving a variety of dishes, including locally sourced vegetarian and vegan-friendly, from 12-5 or until they run out, we will have Authentic Jerk Restaurant and Grill and Kiely’s Cooking.
Thank you to all the great people and local organizations participating this year!
- CCE Tompkins Agriculture
- CCE Tompkins Composting
- CCE Electric Vehicle Car Show
- CCE Tompkins Master Gardeners
- CCE Tompkins Nutrition
- City of Ithaca Sustainability & Climate Justice Commission
- Climate Reality Project
- Climate Smart Communities
- First Unitarian Society of Ithaca
- GO ITHACA
- Ithaca Bikeshare
- Ithaca Carshare
- Ithaca College Eco Reps
- Ithaca Monthly Meeting (Quaker Meeting House)
- Sew Green
- Soil Factory
- Southern Tier Regional Clean Energy Hub
- Story House Ithaca
- Sunrise Ithaca
- Sustainable Finger Lakes
- Lansing Non-Pipes Alternatives Program
- Lilypad Puppet Theater
- Paleontological Research Institute
- PowerHouse
- Tompkint Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT)
- Tompkins County Environmental Management Council
If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to Chris Skawski (cjs359@cornell.edu) at the CCE-Tompkins Energy and Climate Change Team.