• Green Dining Week
• Food Waste Panel

• Keynote Speaker
• Watch a Film

• Earth Day t-shirt
• Raffle Tickets

• ecochallenge
• Sponsors

April 1- 25

• Plastic Waste Pollution Community Science – Be a part of Community Science using the Marine Debris Tracker mobile app using the MRCTI list in the app to help researchers get a snapshot of plastic waste pollution in the Mississippi River watershed from Minnesota to Louisiana as you pick up litter that would otherwise end up in our waterways and oceans. 9 million tons of plastic waste ends up in our oceans annually. Recordings of all the trainings for using the mobile app can be found in the Initiative’s website: www.unep.org/mississippi.  More Information.

• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – at our cleanup events on April 10, 18 and April 24
• April 10: I-70/Jennings Station Road intersection cleanup
• April 18: O’Fallon Park
• April 24: Dutchtown (the area near Meramec and Grand)
• Register here!

Saturday, April 10, 9 am – 1 pm

• Garden Work Day hosted by A Red Circle in collaboration with Custom Foodscaping. Our first collaboration for our Environmental Justice Days Of Action. Volunteers will help build up the urban farm and plant potatoes at the North County Agricultural Education Center, which works to combat food apartheid.  More information. Light snacks will be available and volunteers receive an Earth Day Celebration Kit.
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Register here!
  

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Saturday, April 10, 8 am – 12:30 pm

• Food Waste Outreach Booth – Want to help reduce food waste going to the landfill, but can’t compost? Drop-off your food scraps at Tower Grove Farmers’ Market! We will need volunteers to provide outreach education at our weekly booths about reducing food loss/waste AND help manage our Food Scraps Collection for composting.
• More Information
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – REGISTER HERE!

April 16 through April 25

• Green Dining Week – Earthday365 is proud to present its inaugural Green Dining Week! From April 16th to April 25th, select GDA-certified restaurants in the St. Louis area will offer special menu items where 20% of the proceeds from sales will go to earthday365 and its programs like the Green Dining Alliance.
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Saturday, April 17, 8 am – 12:30 pm

• Food Waste Outreach Booth – Want to help reduce food waste going to the landfill, but can’t compost? Drop-off your food scraps at Tower Grove Farmers’ Market! We will need volunteers to provide outreach education at our weekly booths about reducing food loss/waste AND help manage our Food Scraps Collection for composting.
• More Information
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – REGISTER HERE!

Sunday, April 18, 9 am – noon

• O’Fallon Park Litter Cleanup and Restoration – Join the Young Friends of earthday365 in this litter cleanup and eco-restoration project in O’Fallon Park, in collaboration with the North Newstead Association and one of many area watershed cleanup events organized through the Confluence Trash Bash.  This is another event in our Environmental Justice Days of Action series. Light snacks will be available and volunteers receive an Earth Day Celebration Kit.
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Register here!

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Tuesday, April 20, 6 pm

• Film “Invisible Hand” – Join us as earthday365 hosts a panel discussion moderated by Thea La Grou of Films for the Planet and self-proclaimed “river rat” and Peabody Award Winning Journalist and Founder of the Earth Resilience Podcast, Don Shelby.  This is part of the Global Freshwaters Summit.
• Register here (through the MO Historical Society) to view the film on-demand and attend the panel.

Thursday, April 22, 9 – 10 am

• Watershed Resiliency through Food Waste Reduction and Food Justice – Join Bob Henkel and our three panelists, Maggie McCoy, Nick Speed, and Tyrean Lewis, for an in-depth and personal perspective as we explore Food Waste and Food Justice in our watershed on Earth Day as part of the Global Freshwaters Summit.
• Register here (through the MO Historical Society).

Friday, April 23, 3 – 4 pm

• Earth Month Keynote Speaker Mary Ann Lazarus: Resilience and the Power of Community
  Resilience can mean a lot of different things, from one person’s ability to withstand adversity to overcoming a major region-wide disaster like the 1993 flood or even addressing the long term impacts of climate change. The current pandemic is a test case of resilience at all of those levels, and one that exposes the vast inequities of impacts on the most vulnerable populations. This talk will focus on the wonderful power of community to strengthen resilience so that the St. Louis region can survive, adapt and thrive in the face of a changing future.
• Register here.

Immediately following our Keynote Speaker

• A performance by Consuming Kinetics Dance Company
  Human Disturbance is an interrogation of humankind’s impact on Earth. Through the medium of contemporary dance, Human Disturbance explores topics including climate change, material resource consumption, wildlife preservation, and natural disaster. Our choreographers investigate many of the challenges we face on our planet today while also proposing approaches to address these concerns. In Human Disturbance, we acknowledge the duality of humankind’s destructive and creative impact on the planet; we hold loss, chaos, and apocalypse together with abundance, possibility, and regeneration.
• Register here.

Saturday, April 24, 9:30 am – noon

• Dutchtown Neighborhood Cleanup – in collaboration with the Community Improvement District of Dutchtown, Employment Connection and several neighborhood associations, volunteers will provide much needed litter cleanup along the streets and alleyways. This is another event in our Environmental Justice Days of Action series. Light snacks will be available and volunteers receive an Earth Day Celebration Kit.
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Register here!
  

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Saturday, April 24, 8 am – 12:30 pm

• Food Waste Outreach Booth – Want to help reduce food waste going to the landfill, but can’t compost? Drop-off your food scraps at Tower Grove Farmers’ Market!  We will need volunteers to provide outreach education at our weekly booths about reducing food loss/waste AND help manage our Food Scraps Collection for composting.
• More Information
• VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – REGISTER HERE!

earthday365 has partnered with Earthways Center, USGBC MO Gateway Chapter, and OneSTL to take the