Charleston Earth Day

Charleston’s Earth Day Festival 2009 hosted by Charleston County’s Solid Waste & Recycling Department will be held on April 18th 2009.
Location: Park Circle, North Charleston from 11am – 3pm.

This event will build on the success of last year where over 7, 500 attendees and 70 contributors turned put to support national Earth Day.  The County’s tenth annual Earth Day Festival is a celebration of Charleston County’s environmental community. The festival provides many educational opportunities highlighting Charleston County’s environmental challenges and successes.
For more information visit: Charleston County Recycling Department.

Some Highlights for Earth Day Festival 2009:

• Join in the fun with Becky’s Box of Puppets and hear a new version of the Three Little Pigs.
• Get a free reusable bag. Available to the first 1500 people!
• Roll up your sleeves and play hard with mad science and the fun of Earth Science 101.
• Swing into Spanish with Vamos Cantados in the tents and on the stage.
• Travel the cosmos with Caw Caw’s Portable Planetarium.
• Grab a free bag compost to use in your yard, courtesy of the Bee’s Ferry Landfill’s Compost Facility.
• Buy a Solar Cone Composter for $89.23 and start composting at home that very day! Visit www.solarcone.net for more information.
• Organic, local and healthy cooking demonstrations by Earth Fare.
• Partake in all the great food offered by top-of-the-line food vendors, but make sure to recycle and compost your waste!
• Formula 1 Race car driver Leilani Munter is our special guest of honor. She will speak about her environmental mission on the stage at 12:30 p.m. and sign autographs.
• The Charleston Area Children’s Garden Project will display the children’s recycled garden hardscape at Park Circle. See a hand-made compost bin, a raised bed, a worm habitat and rich organic composted material all made from recycled products.
• Join more than 70 Lowcountry organizations for hands on activities and information on everything environmental from alternative fuel, to green building, to water issues, organics and agriculture. There is something for everyone.