Who will be going to the Earth day Fest?

Every major city has one on the weekend of April 22. Are you going? What city are you going to? Have any special plans for that day &/or weekend?

We are SO there! My husband and I are driving to Reno (only about 45 min away) and taking the kids for a fun day of crafts and yummy veggie food! Hope to meet some other families there too. Then we will come home and the kids will help their daddy plant a tree in our backyard :sunglasse

Whattabout YOU? Got fun plans?

 

We are having an Earth Day fest on April 17th at my University...there are going to be a bunch of environmentally based clubs and organization with information and speakers. Afterwards there will be a drum circle. I'm running the Vegetarian campus group's booth

 

Awsome! Get lots of pictures!!!

 

Not much is going on at my university with the students, but we ARE hosting an Earth Day event that parents can bring there kids to! I signed up to help kids make peanut butter/birdseed/pinecone birdfeeders. Should be fun! Kids are cooler than older people, anyway, lol.


~Nova

 

UC Davis has Picnic Day on Apr 22. That is the annual official "Hurrah for UC Davis" that is run by the University. The timing is coincidincental. However, the campus green groups are working together and for the first time, Picnic Day will recycle and compost. A bunch of us are volunteering to stand by trash bins and explain a 3 bin waste system (compost, recycle, landfill) to the public.

Davis' real ecological event is the Whole Earth Festival on May 12-14 (free admission). The last two years we have sent only 3% of our waste to the landfill, the rest was composted or recycled. None of the food vendors (vergetarian only; localy grown, organic prefered) use disposable dishes. Only re-usable dishes are used (and washed, by our volunteers) throughout the event.
The craft vendors are judged on eco-footprint as well as quality of their work.

 

There was supposed to be a thing in Asheville and I actually talked my family into planning on going.... and then I found out the events been canceled this year. That sucks.

 

Have an Earth Day picnic of your own. Invite the neighbors.

 

I agree with MikeE

On Earth Day I'd rather AVOID driving ANYWHERE, especially that long into the city.

 

I am going to a volunteer training at the Animal Rescue League in the morning and working in my garden in the afternoon!

 

Nice ^^^^

That sounds like fun! I was actually thinking of starting a garden soon