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Free Earth Day Event

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Free Earth Day Event

Time: April 30, 2011 from 11am to 4pm
Location: Universalist Unitarian Church, Clovis
Street: 2672 East Alluvial
City/Town: Clovis, CA 93611
Website or Map: http://www.fresnoearthday.org
Phone: 559.322.6146
Event Type: completely, solar, powered!
Organized By: Fresno Earth Day Coalition
Latest Activity: May 1, 2011

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Event Description

Fresno Earth Day 2011
April  30 – 11 am  &  4 pm  | FREE and Open to the Public
Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno | 2672 East Alluvial | Clovis, CA 93611

Join the Fresno Earth Day Coalition for Earth Day 2011 at Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno.

 

This is the second year the Unitarian Universalist Church has hosted Fresno Earth Day. This successful event was well attended last year and has expanded this year.  2011 activities include over 75 participants, live music, local food, practical workshops, tours, exhibits, films, kids' activities, green car show, free e-waste recycling, solar cooking & bio-fuel making demonstrations, green car show, bike ride, walking tours - xeriscaping, green building tour, bird watching, vermiculture (earthworms), composting workshop, care for garden tools workshop, children’s activities, vegetarian cooking and paper making workshop, valet parking for bikes, Free Bike and Helmet Safety Checks and much more.

Additional Details: Live Music includes: Lonesome Jem - Jem Bluestein and friends, Soul Kitchenette, Heartland Harvest, Bound for Oblivion & Roscanna. Workshops: Paper; Raw foods; Composting; Care of garden tools; Bio fuels. Demonstrations / Displays: Vermiculture (garden worms); Solar cooking; Bio-diesel processing;  E-cars; Wind turbines. Bike ride to Fresno Earth Day from Tower Velo; Bike ride to Woodward Park. Kids' Activities: Zoomobile; Hula Hoop weaving using old T-shirts; Seed Bombs; Coffee grounds; Recycle relay; Paper making. Free E-Waste Recycling.

Participants include: Food and Water Watch, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, City of Fresno Water Conservation Program, California Native Plant Society, Green Hope Veterans, ALA in California, GRID Alternatives, Fresno Chaffee Zoo, Save the Foothills Coalition, Fresno Audubon Society, Sierra Foothills Conservancy, Master Gardeners/UC Cooperative Extension, Tree Fresno, Sierra Club – Tehipite Chapter, Fresno Recycling Program, Fresno Chapter of Green Building Council,  Fresno Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, National Parks Conservation Association, Healthy Dairies Commission,  Coalition for Clean Air, Community Food Bank, Heifer Int., CCROPP, Roots of Change, CSUF Organics Program, Critical Mass, Fresno Bike Coalition, Birchwood Conservancy, County of Fresno Recycling, Clovis Botanical Gardens, Fresno Wildlife Rehabilitation, Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District, Sun Mountain Solar Cookers, Sierra Cat Haven, Mokichi Okada Association, Fresno SPCA, Restore the Delta, ReStore (Habitat for Humanity),  Fresno Bike Kitchen, S.I.L.O., CSUF Organic Farm, LUCA - Latinos United for Clean Air , League of Women Voters and ABC Cooling and Heating, A La Mode - children's used clothing, Charlotte's Bakery, Hart's Haven, Intermountain Nursery, OFFLINE Solar Co., Real Goods Solar, Rustica Kollection, Shaklee, Squaw Valley Herb Gardens, T&D Willey Farms CSA, The Center for Mindfulness, Three Springs Community & Garden, Tower Velo, Urban Salvage Central Valley, Whole Farms Market, Educational Employees Credit Union, Holistic and Integrative Family Medicine, Halloran Dentistry, Casa de Tamales, Lucy’s Lair, Food Not Bombs, Revive Cafe and MANY, MANY MORE!For More info: www.fresnoearthday.org or 559.322.6146
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559.322.6146

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Comment by Joseph Ryan Refuerzo on May 1, 2011 at 2:36pm
It sure was! I managed to take a couple photos before I had to leave due to allergies.  Earth Day 4.30.2011
Comment by Sally Carroll on April 22, 2011 at 1:24pm
This will be a fantastic event. Hope y'all can come see us!

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