Nearly 300 people attended the DU Environmental Team’s second annual Earth Month carnival, which intended to engage and educate people about environmental issues, last Thursday afternoon on Driscoll Green to conclude the month-long celebration.

The music entertainment for the event, which would have featured DU alternative rock music groups Race Street Riot and Sleeptalk, was cancelled due to severe weather, including thunderstorms and spot showers.

“We were sort of wondering all day with the weather,” said junior Brandon Meagher, Race Street Riot drum player and music performance and an audio engineering major. “We were officially told it was canceled about an hour and a half before we were supposed to go on.”

Juniors Gabby Masucci and Claire Teylouni, who helped coordinate the event for the second year in a row, said the event came in $600 under a $7,000 budget.

Thirteen student groups gathered from noon until 5 p.m., including a booth with bike-powered smoothies, a caricature artist, free bike tune-ups and food from Serendipity, a local sustainable catering company.

Senior Tricia Stout, representative from TOMS, attended the carnival for an hour to hand-paint students’ footwear.

Take Back the Tap, a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable agriculture and protects drinking water, provided taste tests to compare tap versus bottled water.

They also handed out free reusable bottles.

“I think just taking small steps to raise awareness in the student body about the importance of making sustainable choices, whether that’s lowering your material consumption, buying local foods or reducing your carbon footprint, it’s a really good goal,” said Teylouni, a political and environmental science double major.

Two freshman representatives, Liana McIsaac and Callie Smith, from Johnson McFarlane Hall’s Environmental Sustainability Living Learning Community (LLC), displayed non-recyclable coffee cups in an effort to show the waste common, disposable coffee cups cause.

LLC provides quarterly theme-based seminar classes to students to encourage experiential education and engagement

“I’d say it was a success overall, although it was a bummer without the music,” said Masucci.

Local restaurants that support sustainability, including Gaia and Kaos Pizza, both Pearl Street eateries, donated gift cards for a raffle.