Earth Day Celebration: Our Power, Our Planet

Learn how you can help protect our planet at this drop-in event with information tables, mini-presentations, and activities for all ages. Events include: 

• 3 - 6 p.m. Friends Bookstore is open for sustainable book shopping!
• 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Get your hands dirty with the California Climate Action Corps Fellows and Santa Monica Community Gardens Staff. Plant native milkweed, dissect owl pellets, explore a worm bin and learn about some cool bees from our Bee Specialist. 
• 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Camera Obscura Artist in Residence Raphaele Cohen-Bacry presents a collage/assemblage workshop incorporating recycled and re-purposed materials. 
•  3:30 p.m. The Urban Forest team presents a family-friendly talk on the Importance of Trees. Get answers to your tree care questions at their Ask an Arborist! table. 
•  4 p.m. City of Santa Monica Poet Laureate, Anne Carmack, presents “Poems for the Planet,” an interactive poetry workshop honoring the Earth for National Poetry Month. 

Participating Organizations:

• City of Santa Monica (Cultural Affairs, Library, Office of Sustainability & the Environment, Resource Recovery & Recycling, Urban Forest, Water Resources)
• California Climate Action Corps
• California Native Plant Society
• Center for the Study of Political Graphics
• Friends of Ballona Wetlands
• Friends of the Santa Monica Public Library
• Heal the Bay
• Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society 
• Santa Monica History Museum
• Sustainable Works

Learn more about Earth Day at earthday.org.