Earth Day 2010: Acts of Green

Join College of the Atlantic to celebrate Earth Day 2010. Come enjoy local food, family activities, panel discussions, demonstrations and more.

College of the Atlantic’s Earth Day festival fills the campus with a celebration of all things earthy and sustainable. From the morning arrival of goats and horses to the afternoon’s joyous throwing of colors in observance of Holi, the Indian spring festival colors, Saturday, April 17 will be a delightful reminder that the earth is something to celebrate and cherish.

For more details, contact Katie Dube at kdube@coa.edu.
See our press releases: April 8, March 12

Events & Activities

Battery Recycling
Bring your typical batteries, known as household dry-cell batteries: alkaline and carbon zinc (9-volt, D, C, AA, and AAA), mercuric-oxide (button, some cylindrical and rectangular), silver-oxide, zinc-air (button), and lithium (9-volt, C, AA, coin, button, and rechargeable). By recycling them, COA will keep such heavy metals as zinc, lead, nickel, alkaline, manganese, cadmium, silver, and mercury out of landfills while also saving resources by reusing materials from each battery.

COA's Earth Day is Carbon Neutral
For those who can't walk or bike to bicycle to the festival, College of the Atlantic students will tabulate the distance that each car drives to Earth Day. COA will offset those emissions.

Earth Night
Come back at 9 p.m. for an Earth Night celebration — a dance with live music and performances to support the senior class for their party and traditional gift to the college.

Other exciting activities to look forward to:
Barbecues
Battery Recycling
Bird Walks
Book Sale
Bug Walks
Bugs' World
Climate Change talk from COA's Copenhagen Delegation
Composting Workshop
Craft Sales
Earth Mural
Goats and horses from Mandala Farm
Gumboot Dance Troupe
Holi Pigment Throwing Ritual
Ice Cream
The Inflatable Whale
Institute for Humane Education presentation
Keynote: "Is Sustainability for Sale? The Role of Consumption in Sustainability"
Music
Pizza
Plant Sale
Primitive Skills Workshop
Puppet show
Recycled Sculpture
Scavenger Hunt
Seed Planting
Story time
Tables from statewide organizations
Touch Tank
Tree Planting Ceremony
Vendors

…and much, much more!