Earth Day Initiative
EARTH DAY 2008
Bainbridge Celebrates
Earth Day – Earth Community
April 13 - 26
Learn, play, celebrate…and get your hands dirty! Be a good steward of the Earth!
Events especially geared to young children are denoted with an asterisk *.
EVENTS
Link here for printable PDF of Earth Day Events
Sunday, April 13
Enviropalooza!
12:00 – 4:00pm, at IslandWood, 4450 Blakely Ave. NE
Join the celebration of Earth Day and National Environmental Education Week, with performances by New Wilderness Project and Lelavision, informational displays at the Enviro-Fair, and activities for all ages.
Contact: www.islandwood.org
Thursday, April 17
Special Earth Day Conversation Café
7:00 – 8:30pm, at Andante Coffee, 123 Bjune Avenue (at corner of S. Madison)
Join the open, public dialogue on the topic of “sustainability.” What is "community sustainability?" How do we achieve it? Contact: Kat, at 842-0223 or kmgjovik@aol.com
Saturday, April 19
Bainbridge Island Land Annual Native Trust Plant Sale
9:00am – 12:00pm, at Eagle Harbor Congregational Church
Pick up pre-ordered plants; more on hand. (Orders needed to be placed by April 1). Contact: 842-1216, info@bi-landtrust.org.
*Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market
9:00am – 1:00pm, at Town Square, next to City Hall
Farm fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as natural skincare products, artisan breads and pastries, honey, preserves, vinegars, colorful bouquets of flowers, plants, visual arts, fiber arts, woodcraft, jewelry, beverages and Island wine, art glass, pottery, and garden art.
Every Saturday through October 20!
Contact: Susan, 855-1500, or www.bainridgefarmersmarket.com
*Non-motorized Earth Day Parade!
Assemble at 10:00am at [location to be confirmed]; parade begins at 10:30 and ends at the Town & Country Earth Day Fair. Create costumes and decorations inspired by nature - bring classmates, friends…the whole family! Release forms must be signed and children must be accompanied by adults. (Extra forms will be available at assembly location.)
Contact: Kat, 842-0223
Earth Day Weed Removal at Pritchard Park:Celebrate your Mother!
10:00am – 2:00pm (Park at new lot off Eagle Harbor Drive, just past Taylor.)
Clean up the Park and learn about the interconnectedness of web of life with Weed Warriors, Watershed Council, BI Japanese American Community, BI High School Honor Society, BI High School Earth Service Corps, Interfaith Council, Association of Bainbridge Communities, BI Parks District, Friends of Pritchard Park and Ron’s Walkers. Free t-shirts to first participants who walk, paddle or bike to the park. Bring: pruners, small saws, gloves, lunch, boots, and raingear.
Contact: Len, 780-2111 or lenbeil3@msn.com
*T&C 9th Annual Community Earth Day Fair!
11:00am – 3:00pm, at Town & Country Market, north parking lot
T&C hosts various local organizations to share important information about how we can all take better care of the environment. Learn about the “Bring Your Bag” campaign, local food and farms, alternative energy…and much more! Enjoy the grilled salmon lunch ($5), recycled glass art, goodie bags and fun crafts for kids!
Contact: Sue, 780-4139
*Earth Day Science with Lynn Brunelle
11:00am, at Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way East
Experiments involve worms, mold, yeast, leaves, flowers, pizza box solar ovens, cool sundials...and more!!
Contact: www.eagleharborbooks.com or 842-5332
“Call for the Wild” – 4th Annual Auction, Dinner and Earth Week Celebration
Benefitting the West Sound Wildlife Shelter
5:00 – 9:30pm, at Kiana Lodge, 14976 Sandy Hook Road NE
Tickets: $75 per person or $600 for table of eight.
Contact: 842-6027 or buy tickets on-line at www.westsoundwildlife.org
*Welcome Spring and Earth Day Contra Dance!
7:30 – 10:30pm, at Island Center Hall
Dance to the Country Capers Trio and calling of Laura Mae Smith.
Contact: Jane, c_capers@yahoo.com
Bring Your Bag Day!
This initiative is a partnership between the Chamber of Commerce, Sustainable Bainbridge, Town & Country Markets, and other community members.
We want to help our fellow islanders get into the habit of using reusable bags when they shop-- not just in the grocery stores, but for all their shopping. We're ready to launch a community-wide initiative on Earth Day, and we're asking the Bainbridge City Council to declare April 19th as "Bring Your Bag Day". We'll have reusable bags available at a great price during the Earth Day events on April 19. Americans consume more than 10 billion paper bags each year. Some 14 million trees are cut down annually for paper bag production.
The U.S. uses 100 billion plastic bags annually, made from an estimated 12 million barrels of oil. (Washington Post, 2007).
For more information, contact Els Heyne at gromanheyne@msn.com
Wednesday, April 23
*Kids’ Climate Change Challenge
7:00 – 8:00am, at Bainbridge Island Library
Presented by Sarah Lane of Green Goat Books and Julie Hall, author of “A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids.” The presentation is a fun, lively game for kids and their parents designed to get kids and their families to think about climate change and its causes, do things on the spot that reinforce positive and effective pro-planet ideas, and imagine and commit to future actions designed to combat climate change.
Contact: 842-3412 or contact@greengoatbooks.com
Thursday, April 24
"FAREWELL, MY SUBARU: AN EPIC ADVENTURE IN LOCAL LIVING," with Doug Fine
7:30pm, at Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way East.
Doug Fine gives a multimedia presentation on how hard it is to go green while "living like an American." Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, says, "The details of Doug Fine's experiment in green living are great fun—but more important is . . . the dawning understanding that living in connection to something more tangible than a computer mouse is what we were built for."
Saturday, April 26
*Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market
9:00am – 1:00pm, at Town Square, next to City Hall
Farm fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as natural skincare products, artisan breads and pastries, honey, preserves, vinegars, colorful bouquets of flowers, plants, visual arts, fiber arts, woodcraft, jewelry, beverages and Island wine, art glass, pottery, and garden art.
Every Saturday through October 20!
Contact: Susan, 855-1500, or www.bainridgefarmersmarket.com
*Helpline House Plant Sale
9:00am -1:00pm, at 282 Knechtel Way
Vegetable starts, annuals, sun and shade perennials, and more. Visit Helpline’s landscaping, created by Linda Whitehead. All proceeds benefit Helpline House food bank. Donations of plants welcome.
Contact: 842-7621
Photo by Don Willott