Celebrate Earth Day, Saturday April 22nd from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
On the green in South Royalton and at the BALE Commons 35 S. Windsor Street
Activities include:
10:00 - Fiddle music with Emerson Gale and friends
11:00 - No Dig Garden presentation and free garden seed distribution
11:45 - Children friendly yoga
Throughout the day:
Free Milpa seed distribution
Fraser fir seedlings - 24 to distribute
Sunflower seedlings and seeds for little fingers to plant
Electronic Waste collection - computers and accessories, cell phones, printers (no appliances, please)
Veggie block printing - take home some note cards
E-bike demonstration and information
Food truck
Plastic monster craft and information
Hope to see you there!
A brief history: The first Earth Day in 1970 inspired 20 million Americans — at the time, 10% of the total population of the United States — to take to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts. By the end of 1970, the first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of other first of their kind environmental laws, including the National Environmental Education Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air Act. Two years later Congress passed the Clean Water Act. A year after that, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act and soon after the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction. More information can be found here: https://www.earthday.org/history/