Earth Day Celebration
Earth Day Parade & Celebration a Success!
The 10th Annual Earth Day Celebration was held in South Park on Saturday, April 17th. The celebration in the park featured April Showers to Water Towers: a Water Festival for Douglas County, free ridership on the T, garden and tree identification tours, the Recycle Cycle, live music, food, and over 65 exhibitors. Attendees learned from exhibits about waste reduction, recycling, composting, alternative fuels and vehicles, energy conservation, land preservation, wildlife and habitat preservation, and more. The Parade that preceded the Celebration, and hosted by the KU Environs, included almost 200 participants and gathered quite a crowd.
The Lawrence Earth Day Celebration works every year to educate residents, businesses and surrounding communities regarding the importance of responsible environmental policies, raise awareness of each individual’s impact on the natural environment, and highlight actions each person can take to make Lawrence and Douglas County a more sustainable and eco-friendly place to live.
Earth Day 2010 Exhibitor List
- Kids Toy Library
- KU Environs
- Larsen & Associates
- Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice
- Lawrence Community Radio
- Lawrence Habitat ReStore
- Lawrence Sustainability Network
- LilyPad EV
- Lou & Co
- Minuteman Press
- Miss Lawrence Pagent
- Outside for a Better Inside
- Prairie Moon Waldorf School
- P.J.'s Concessions
- Oread Friends Meeting
- Reiki Light
- Rolling Prairie Farmer's Alliance/Chestnut Charlie's
- Save the Wakarusa Wetlands, Inc.
- School of Metaphysics
- Shaklee Corporation
- Sierra Club, Wakarusa Group
- Solidarity Radical Library
- Soka Gakkai
- South Mass Art Guild
- State Energy Office
- Sustainability Action Network
- Sustainability Advisory Board
- Tenants to Homeowners, Inc.
- The World Company
- Vinland Valley Nursery
- Vitaminwater
- Westar Energy
- Western Kansas Vegetarian Society
- 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio
- 940 Dance Company
- All N 1 Landscape
- AMSOIL/AGGRAND
- Animal Outreach of Kansas
- Audio-Reader
- Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park
- Blue Sky Green Earth Magazine
- Cans for the Community
- Central Plains Center for BioAssessment
- City of Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling
- City of Lawrence Central Maintenance Garage
- City of Lawrence Parks & Recreation Dept. Horticulture/ Forestry Divisions
- Community Living Opportunities
- Cromwell Environmental
- Deffenbaugh Industries
- Delaware Street Commons
- Eagles' Rest Natural Home
- Engineers Without Borders - KUÂ
- EarthSongHealth
- Extreme Recycling Inc.
- Falun Dafa/Falun Gong
- First Weavers
- Friends of the Kaw
- Good Energy Solutions, Inc.
- Grasslands Heritage Foundation
- Harvest of Peace
- J & B Foam, Inc.
- Jayhawk Audubon Society
- Just Chillin Concessions
- Kansas Solar Electric Co-operatives (K-SEC)
- Kansas Soybean Commission
- Kat and Mouse
- Kaw Valley Seeds Project
For more information, please call 785-832-3030 or send an email to recycling@ci.lawrence.ks.us.
Previous Event Reports
Earth Day Parade & Celebration 2010
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Earth Day Parade & Celebration 2009
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