4th Annual Village Creek Clean Up, 4/20/2012

Gathering in the morning at JO

Getting ready, thank you Alabama Power! 

11th Street and Avenue L

And to end, teachers serving PIZZA!

See the Birmingham-News's Coverage, here.

Kony 2012

Happy Earth Day!

Wondering what to do to celebrate??? There are plenty small things to do which make a world of difference. However you celebrate, enjoy this life and this earth! No matter who you are, it's the only one you have!

~The Birmingham Chapter of the TNC will be hosting a picnic in Railroad Park on this Sunday from 11-3:00. This is a 100% free event with music, games, activities for the kiddos, and more fun than you can shake a stick at. You can bring your own basket of goodies or there will be picnic lunches available to purchase from local vendors. There will also be more than 60 picnic tables decorated by local artists, corporations, and nonprofits.

For more information about the TNC and this great event please see the following link: http://www.nature.org/earthday/index.htm

~Legacy, Partners in Environmental Education will be having a Go Green Night with the Barons on EARTH DAY. Join the Legacy Team and the Barons at Regions Park at 4:00 p.m. Order tickets here and see the Barons take on the Mississippi Braves.

~Birmingham City Schools will be doing a clean up TOMORROW for Pratt City, starting at Jackson-Olin High School from 8-12.

~Slow Food USA is working in the Terra Madre communities of Africa in order to create a thousand food gardens. You may learn more and donate here.

~Take the 20/20/20 challenge and become 20 % cooler through your knowledge of your carbon emissions. Get a free sticker that declares this too!

~Vote for F^3: Financing for Food and Farming as well as sign the One Campaign's petition for a call to all G8 leaders to stop the cycle of hunger and poverty.

~Support your local school garden! Not sure how? Check out this upcoming event, May 4-5, with Principal Michael Wilson and Glen Iris Elementary.

April 4. 2012

On this day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated, and Maya Angelou was born.

Bellringer:
“After the grueling work of the commission I came away with a deep sense – indeed an exhilarating realization – that, although there is undoubtedly much evil about, we humans have a wonderful capacity for good. We can be very good. That is what fills me with hope for even the most intractable situations.” ~Desmond Tutu from, No Future Without Forgiveness

Word of the Day: Coexistence

http://www.coexistdocumentary.org/coexistence