The Community Book Initiative was born out of the Covid pandemic as a way to continue to engage with our community, despite not being able to gather in our traditional ways and host our usual line-up of events. 

Clean Up the Lake (CUTL) is a 501(c)3 whose mission is to activate local communities to join us in taking action to protect the environment, both above and below the surface. Our efforts include working with engaged community volunteers to remove submerged litter from natural waterways and monitor for aquatic invasive species (AIS) to improve water quality and ecosystem health while also educating the public on how litter accumulates, and AIS can be transported in the environment in unforeseen ways. To date our SCUBA cleanups have removed over 70,000 pounds of litter from lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains and we have worked to engage over 1,200 students in the Tahoe area, through our Litter Education Awareness Program (LEAP) to educate them on the issues of litter in the environment and empower them to take preventative action. 

Between May 13th-June 10th, your purchase of one or more of these titles will directly support our nonprofit beneficiary, Clean Up the Lake! For the entirety of the event, Clean Up the Lake will receive 100% of book sale proceeds from our 21 community recommended titles. 

If you are interested in participating in the Community Book Initiative in future years, or would like to be selected as the nonprofit beneficiary for this event, please contact info@alpenglowsports.com for consideration!