Various student organizations are planning an Earth Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in the Library Quad.

Stevie Momaly, the president of Earth Wise, helped put together a similar Earth Day celebration last year while she was a co-president.

“I wanted to set up a tradition for Earth Wise,” Momaly said. “All of these things will be free for the students to do.”

Several of the activities available to participants include making crafts and jewelry out of used items such as metal, which Momaly has taken from old circuit boards specifically to make jewelry.

Momaly said she wants to promote the use of upcycling, a term used for turning garbage into something useful.

Earth Wise will also give out small plants as decoration as well as provide hacky sack and chalk games.

“I want to get people hanging outside,” Momaly said.

Momaly said she hopes the celebration event will spread awareness for the organization as well.

Earth Wise is a student organization working to increase the environmental responsibility of Eastern and the surrounding community through spreading awareness.

Students for Peace and Justice will also be hosting an educational booth on the quad, talking about different environmental issues and their effects such as higher temperatures, ice melting and rising sea levels.

The booth will have statistical facts as well as large domino props to express these dangers.

The organization will have free fair trades coffee handouts as well.

Courtney Osborn, the president of Students for Peace and Justice, said this is the last Earth Day celebration she will attend on campus.

“It means a lot because now I get to share this with the campus and bring some light onto climate change,” Osborn said.

Students for Peace and Justice focused on environmental climate change this semester, Osborn said.

The student organization works to spread awareness to environmental and social justice issues.

In the past, the organization focused on other issues such as human trafficking, fair trade sales, and immigration.

Momaly said trees are being used as a theme for the holiday and students can promote Earth Day by taking pictures of themselves hugging a tree and posting it to their social media sites with the “#hugatree”.

The Geoscience club will have an Earth Day celebration bake sale as well.

On Sunday, Students for Peace and Justice will continue the Earth Day Celebration and show “The Lorax” and talk about environmental issues with children.

Jeff Coy can be reached at 581-2812 or jrcoy@eiu.edu