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Silver Lake’s Earth Ball Pics
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Some 2,000 or more bags were collected for Silver Lake’s Earth Ball event yesterday.
Here’s the event captured on film if you weren’t there to see it for yourself.
The bags:
The ball in progress:
The infamous “bag monster” costume, here modeled by the lovely Elizabeth:
Read more about Silver Lake’s plastic bag project.
We hope you each had a meaningful Earth Day yesterday.
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Earth Day Ball in Silver Lake
Monday, April 20th, 2009
This Wednesday, Earth Day 2009: Silver Lake Hosts a Ball (of a different sort).
The Silver Lake Chamber of Commerce has been collecting plastic bags this winter/spring and will be tying them together to form a giant plastic ball in Triangle Square (site of the Saturday farmers’ market) on Earth Day. It’s a tribute to the kids’ book the United Nations Environmental Programme put out, Theo and the Giant Plastic Ball (download the free PDF of the book here) and an effort to increase awareness of the problems with plastic.
Our community is estimated to dole out 6,000 plastic bags a month–part of the million bags a minute consumed worldwide. From now on though, a number of local businesses are just saying no.
You can support Silver Lake’s journey to becoming a “Bring Your Own Bag Neighborhood” by coming along and joining. Details here.
And read up on plastic bag facts from Californians Against Waste.
We hope you have a ball celebrating the earth this week.
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