{"id":165758,"date":"2026-04-14T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165758\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:51:06","slug":"penn-state-berks-to-host-earth-day-celebration-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165758\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Berks to host Earth Day celebration, April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 The Penn State Berks Sustainability Council will host its annual Earth Day celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in the Perkins Plaza, located just outside the Perkins Student Center, with a rain location of the Gaige Technology and Innovation Building. The Earth Day celebration will include community organizations, student tables, and activities, including planting in the campus garden. The event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same day, the Penn State Berks Sustainability Council will offer a nature discovery program, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., beginning in the Luerssen Science Building, room 5, and then moving outside. Participants will use the free mobile app iNaturalist to observe and identify plants and animals in our environment. This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScv6eq1lgN_vCJUApBtXe7oNMoT_XbOporBhhftl_R3ST0Vvg\/viewform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Participants are asked to register in advance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on these events, contact Jayne Park Martinez, assistant teaching professor of science, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/berks\/story\/mailto:JIP10@psu.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JIP10@psu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 The Penn State Berks Sustainability Council will host its annual Earth Day celebration from 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-165758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}