April 6, 2011
April Is Earth Month In Philadelphia: Celebrate All Month Long With 5K Runs, Tree Plantings, Park Clean-Ups And More
The Mayor’s Office of Sustainability is leading a citywide celebration of Earth Month this April.
Events include: a “Policies and Politics of Water” talk at the Penn Museum; the 30th Anniversary 5K Run for Clean Air and Earth Day Celebration; and a “Love Your Park” clean-up event throughout the city, a partnership between the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Greater Philadelphia Cares.
Plus, the Philadelphia Science Festival’s Science Carnival on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway April 16, produced in collaboration with the Philadelphia Book Festival, has a great green component, including Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ “Seeing Green — The Art of Ecology” craft station, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s “Plant-a-Plug” flower planting booth and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s “The Science of Public Health” information station.
Check out the full Earth Month calendar here.
Philadelphia’s Earth Month is already off to a great start: Mayor Nutter just announced that more than 12,000 volunteers helped the city remove a record 1,240,360 pounds of trash during the annual “Philly Spring Cleanup” this past weekend!
Mayor’s Office of Sustainability [Official Site]
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