The A.W.A.R.E. Club at Lake Tahoe Community College is sponsoring an organic, vegan dinner and speaker with a Thanksgiving theme on Nov. 20. Hope Bohanec, Grassroots Campaigns Director, IDA, will be the speaker. Her topic is Eco-Eating: The Power of Your Plate. She will discuss the environmental impacts of our food choices including global warming, deforestation, water use and pollution, topsoil depletion, loss of biodiversity and species, and over-fishing of our oceans. The dinner will be prepared by culinary arts students under the direction of Chef Steve Fernald. Cost is $9 (advance purchase). Tickets are available at Student Services from through Nov. 18.