Earth Day Neighborhood Cleanup
Sunday, April 24th, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Love
your planet and your neighborhood. On Earth Day, meet up with your
neighbors at the Newkirk Community Garden in Kensington and work
together to clean up streets in the neighborhood.
Gloves and grabbers for picking up litter will be available for you to use. If you have your own gloves and grabbers, you're welcome to bring them. And bring used plastic bags with you to fill with litter.
When Earth Day was first celebrated back in 1970,
"Earth Day inspired 20 million Americans — at the time, 10% of the total population of the United States — to take to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts.Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment and there were massive coast-to-coast rallies in cities, towns, and communities.By the end of 1970, the first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of other first of their kind environmental laws."
You can read more about the history of Earth Day, from 1970 up to the present, at https://www.earthday.org/history/.
Location
Newkirk Community Garden
736 E. 8th Street (at Newkirk Avenue)
Kensington, Brooklyn, NY 11230
phone: (347) 903-7297
contact form https://www.newkirkgarden.com/page10.html