Earthday Santa Cruz 2011 is an exciting community event offering educational information, activities for kids including an arts and crafts tent, live music and a focus on green businesses There will be a variety of great food options and a wine garden offering organic wines from Hallcrest Organic Wine Works. The new smart “fortwo” car from New Leaf and Smart Chicken will be on display with information on how you can win it! Learn about Earth-Friendly Eating, Green Building Basics, Composting and Graywater in the new Workshop Tent. Get a free eMotion Pedicab ride, check out the electric vehicle showcase and view the solar powered stage by Solar Technologies. Come and enjoy this fun environmental celebration for the whole family!
• 11 am: Composting Workshop: Recycle food & green waste in your own backyard and save money. Unincorporated County residents get a voucher for a free compost or worm bin. • 12 pm: Green Building Basics: The essentials of designing and constructing a green building • 1 pm: Earth-Friendly Eating: Local food basics for better health and more sustainable communities • 2 pm: Graywater in Your Home: Water is precious! Find out how to reuse graywater from your laundry, shower, and bathroom sink for landscape irrigation. • 3 pm: Composting Workshop: Composting is so popular we added a second workshop. Be sure to catch this one!
• Electric vehicle showcase • NEW! Environment-themed Kids Arts and Crafts Tent • Over 75 green retail, nonprofit and government booths • Zero Waste Event - Bring your water bottle and shopping bag • Free solar enhanced pedicab rides from eMotionPedicab between Earthday Festival & downtown • Save Our Shores / City of Santa Cruz River Cleanup from 10am-1pm
• 11 am: Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist: Eco-music for kids & fun science demonstrations • 12:30 pm: The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship “Just in Time” Choir: Earth themed songs led by Gail Swain • 1 pm: SqueezeDaddy: Local Santa Cruz band performing toe-tapping New Orleans Blues, Zydeco, and Mardi Gras tunes • 2 pm: Kid Zone Award Show: 10 local schools compete for prizes with their Earth Day projects • 3 pm: SqueezeDaddy
For more information, visit the EcoCruz website.