{"id":175997,"date":"2026-04-25T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:37:42","slug":"berks-county-colleges-encourage-students-to-get-hands-on-for-earth-day-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175997\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County colleges encourage students to get hands-on for Earth Day | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. \u2013 Colleges in Berks County held events Wednesday to mark Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>At Penn State Berks in Spring Township, the celebration moved inside because of the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Community organizations and student groups set up tables with information about things like sustainable self-care swaps to help reduce the amount of trash going to landfills.<\/p>\n<p>At Alvernia University in Reading, moss art kits and grow-your-own-herb kits were available for Earth Day. Students picked up the kits on campus Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The school also hosts a day of service in honor of Earth Day. That took place over the weekend with the goal of supporting local parks, trails and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. \u2013 Colleges in Berks County held events Wednesday to mark Earth Day. At Penn State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-175997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175997","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=175997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}