By Pauline Benetti
The Southwest Group for Sustainability (SOS) Earth Day Planning Staff is tough at work organizing this 12 months’s Earth Day Celebration which is deliberate for Sunday, April 21 in its conventional location in Centennial Park alongside the River Stroll and on the Geothermal Greenhouse Partnership Website. Invitation are out to people, colleges, organizations, companies, and so on. to return forth with the occasion or exercise that they want to sponsor and take part in making the 2024 Earth Day Celebration the perfect but.
And everybody in the neighborhood is invited to return all the way down to the river and have a superb time, with extra particulars beneath on what to anticipate.
Along with celebrating, all of us have to take day out for a second of reflection on our personal efforts to stay lives which might be wholesome for the Planet. It’s “We the folks” who should rise up within the face of the monumental job of insuring that our planet stays a wholesome residence for all of us now and ceaselessly.
A short historic evaluate will present how efficient “We the folks” have been. April 22, 2024 would be the 54th celebration of Earth Day from its starting in 1970 with an indication by twenty million People that within the ensuing few years resulted within the passing of seminal laws. The Environmental Safety Company and the passage of the Clear Air, Clear Water and Endangered Species Acts all got here out of this effort, laws which as we speak is at risk of revocation. In 1990, Earth Day went world with 200 million folks in 141 nations collaborating. At the moment, greater than 1 billion folks from 192 nations take part and the necessity has by no means been larger particularly in our personal nation, as soon as the world chief in defending the planet’s pure sources. Verify www.earthday.org for extra particulars.
The occasions of today start at 9am with a time of mindfulness enhanced with the expertise of a sound tub. The Opening Ceremony will likely be held at 10am at which era neighborhood cubicles providing info, merchandise, raffles, a clothes swap, and so on. will likely be inviting guests to cease by and the Wetland Tour will start gathering people.
The GGP Amphitheater will even invite people to listen to talks on quite a lot of subjects together with rising native, domes for seniors, composting companies, migratory birds, plastics, recycling; and the featured presentation Wolfwood Refuge. All are invited to the Group Tea Ceremony and a Group Pot Luck; children will likely be busy with photo voltaic automotive racing and a sidewalk chalk artwork contest and each Mom’s Little one is inspired to decorate up in a fancy dress impressed by our Planet Earth and cease by the SOS sales space to have a photograph taken.
As if that isn’t sufficient… the day will conclude with music by Xavier. Keep tuned for extra specifics because the date approaches.
Want extra info? E mail sospagosa@hotmail.com or name 970-264-5232.
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