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Contact Person: Lauren Siegel,
Executive Director of Nevada EcoNet
When: Sunday April 20th, 10am to 5pm
Where: Idlewild Park, Reno
Who: Free for all, Rain or Shine
How: Free Parking and Shuttle at Reno High School, Bike Valet
Nevada EcoNet presents 2008 Earth Day Celebration
Nevada EcoNet presents the 2008 Earth Day Celebration on Sunday April 20th from 10am to 5pm at Idlewild Park, free for all, rain or shine. This is the biggest g to learn green event to make green changes for your life now. “Green is Now” is the theme this year to invigorate citizens of the Truckee Meadows to start going green today. Over six workshops on how to go green, led by local experts will occur all day on the workshop stage.
Earth Day is a family event full of activities for children, including paper making, paver stones, and more. Over six bands are performing on the solar powered stage with a zero waste food court and local farmers’ market. At Earth Day over 100 booths with environmental products, services and programs are on display for you to ask questions, get information and take action. Recycling is available are Earth Day for car batteries, cell phones, CFL light bulbs, and bikes.
Idlewild Park is centrally located on the Truckee River right upstream from downtown. Free parking is available at Reno High School with a shuttle to the event. If you decide to pedal your way down, Reno Bike Project is hosting the bike valet. Bike riders receive a free raffle ticket by New Belgium Brewing Co. of a bike messenger bag filled with bike goodies.
Thinking of getting a new bike for the summer? Nevada EcoNet is raffling off a New Belgium Brewing Co. cruiser bike. Buy tickets the entire month of April at Whole Foods Marketplace and at the event from the Nevada EcoNet booth in front of the California Building. Nevada EcoNet booth will also have Earth Day programs with a map of the event, Green Guides’, and Earth Day merchandise.
Which houses are situated for solar? Find out from Scot Gerz from Solar Generations to see how it works and how much you could be saving. Small energy and green building tips can pay off and aren’t as big of an investment as people may think. Learn about new products and energy efficient tips from John Toth, a green building LEED certified expert.
Truckee Meadows Water Authority water conservation expert, Andy Gephardt, has big ideas of how to conserve water, one of the most precious resources in our dry climate. Some of the most effective changes to save water is in the garden. Tom Stille from Interpretive Gardens is a local expert about native plants and water saving ideas with a few helpful tips to cut back on water.
In order to grow the garden, Craig Witt from Full Circle Compost is going to show how to start a worm bucket to compost all food scraps and make nutritious soil at the same time. Feed yourself this summer with local, organic food at all the amazing farmer’s markets and the permanent farmers market set to open this summer in downtown Reno. Find out about all local food from Leeza Balmin of the Local Food Systems Network and Karen Craig from the City of Reno.
Citizens can guess how much compost, recycling, and trash the Earth Day event produces? The closest guess will win a home composter!! Enter to win at the waste stations where volunteers will explain what is trash and what is compost, such as forks made out of potatoes!! All the compost is composted by Full Circle Composted and donated back to Idlewild Park’s Rose Garden to flourish all year long.
In order to offset the carbon footprint of the Earth Day celebration, participants can contribute to the Green Power when buying raffle tickets. Nevada EcoNet is partnering with Desert Research Institute’s Nevada GreenPower Program and Solar Generations of Sierra Pacific Power Company to offer attendees and vendors an option to help offset the carbon footprint of the 2008 Earth Day Celebration. Contributions will be accumulated by Nevada EcoNet and contributed to Nevada GreenPower Program for solar panels and small wind turbines to be installed on local schools. On all Sierra Pacific Power Co. bills local citizens and businesses have the option to pay extra to contribute to this program.
To find out more information or how to volunteer call Nevada EcoNet at 323-3433.
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