Join the 2024 Earth Day Festival on the Ithaca Commons, April 20 from 12-5 pm! Come celebrate your community’s efforts to address climate change and other environmental issues with a family-friendly celebration featuring lots of hands-on activities, food, music, free raffles, and more. 

Learn all about the Ithaca Green New Deal, home electrification, sustainable transportation and agriculture, and much more! Help us explore a positive future and learn how you can be part of the solution!

On April 20th, Everyone Rides TCAT for FREE!

TCAT buses are for free all day on Saturday, April 20th, in celebration of our Earth. Leave your car behind, walk or bike to a TCAT stop, and explore our beautiful county by bus. Rides sponsored by CCE-Tompkins’ Energy and Climate Change Team with support from the Park Foundation. 

TCAT is always free, every day for kids under 18 (or still in high school)!

If you use Facebook, there is a Facebook event page here:

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.

CCE Tompkins
Cornell Cooperative Extension Energy & Climate Change Team
Energy Warriors/ Green Career Pathways
Southern Tier Regional Clean Energy Hub
Clean Energy Communities
Climate Smart Communities
PowerHouse
Way2Go
4-H & Primitive Pursuits
CCE Master Gardeners
CCE Tompkins Agriculture
There will be an induction cooking demonstration

Public Sector
City of Ithaca- Ithaca Green New Deal
Town of Ithaca
Senator Lea Webb’s Office

Sustainability
BlocPower
Sustainable Finger Lakes
Soil Factory

Transportation
TCAT
Ithaca Carshare
Ithaca Bikeshare
There will be an electric vehicle car show

Education
Ithaca College Eco Reps
Sciencenter
Paleontological Research Institution

Arts & Culture
Story House Ithaca
Lillypad Puppet Theater
Civic Ensemble
WRFI
WRFI will also DJ the event

Civic & Student Groups
Mothers Out Front Tompkins
Climate Reality Project (Greater Finger Lakes Region)
Sunrise Ithaca

Beverages & Food Vendors
(Food Vendors TBD)
A special thanks to Ithaca Beer for donating cases of ginger beer for the event!

Help spread the word!

Click the link below for social media materials and printable posters that you can access and use across all your connections.

If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to Jack Wright (ww497@cornell.edu) or Guillermo Metz (gm52@cornell.edu) at the Energy and Climate Change Team