April: Earth Day Celebration Month
All residents are invited to join with local officials and the environmental community on April 14th as they "Step It Up" to raise awareness and show support for moving forward on a national energy policy that is clean and sustainable, and ask Congress to cut carbon emissions 80% by 2050. Starting at 10 a.m. marchers will meet the Greenwich Common on Greenwich Ave (across from Senior Center) and walk up the Ave to the Post Road and then to Town Hall where tables will be set up with information on energy issues. Around 11:15 the audience will hear invited speakers: Conservation Director, Denise Savageau; Town of Greenwich First Selectman, Jim Lash; and Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal. They have been asked to address how the state and our own municipality are planning to cut our local and state's emissions.
The "Step It Up" event is just one in a month long celebration of Earth Day. On April 1, First Selectman Lash, declared April Earth Day Celebration in front of a capacity crowd at the Bruce Museum's lecture by Jefferson W. Tester, H.P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entitled, Transitioning to a Sustainable Future, on alternative energy.
"Energy is certainly an important topic for this Earth Day but it is not the only thing the conservation community is working on" explains Savageau. "The Greenwich Recycling Advisory Board is once again holding its sneaker recycling program and has a started a new program to recycle cell phones". Other events planned include a tree planting ceremony in front of Town Hall on April 23, a Walk of the Wild Side on April 28 sponsored by the Garden Education Center, and an Inaugural Event on May 2 for the newly formed Greenwich Tree Conservancy. Click here for a full calendar of events and more information.
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