Museum of Natural Sciences partners with Burt’s Bees and City of Raleigh for Planet Earth Celebration
Over 50 "green" stations, Burt’s Bees Mobile Tour Experience, N.C. Sustainable Building Design Competition, and more!
March 25, 2008
Arts, Environment, Education, Travel Editors.
Contact: Emelia.Cowans@ncmail.net; 919.733.7450, ext. 305
RALEIGH – North Carolina has never seen an Earth Day celebration like the one planned for Saturday, April 19, 2008 at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. The Museum has partnered with Burt’s Bees and the City of Raleigh for Planet Earth Day Celebration 2008, for one of the largest and most exciting educational celebrations of our planet ever. Free.
Rain or shine, the fun begins 11 a.m. and runs through 7 p.m. both inside the Museum and outdoors along our plaza and the State Capitol grounds.Visitors are encouraged to use an alternate means of transportation to travel to and from the celebration. Capital Area Transit (CAT) is offering system wide fare-free day in an effort to encourage commuters to "go green" and leave their cars at home. CAT buses are equipped with bike racks for riders who may want to bike to a bus stop and ride to the event.
Over 50 stations will provide visitors with much needed information on how to make their lives more "green" and our local and global environment more healthy. Complete with local music and artists as well as food and beer, a sustainable design competition and kid zone, the day is bound to make for a beautiful and informative spring day in downtown Raleigh. Planet Earth Day Celebration 2008 will be a green festival, managed and operated in a way that will minimize its footprint, and will optimize use of goods and services that respect the Earth.
DENR's Division of Forest Resources will also recognize Raleigh's 20th anniversary as a Tree City USA Community and NC State University's College of Natural Resources will give out 3,000 free saplings to attendees.
Highlights
- Burt's Bees Bee-utify Your World mobile tour will be on-site offering free samples and hand massages as well as an interactive educational experience where consumers can try a variety of the over 150 natural personal care products. Visitors can also meet Burt himself!
- 8th Annual Sustainable Design Competition.
- The Junkman will bring his unique music style by playing a series of jams throughout the day using 100% recycled materials (up to 200 pieces of trash!)
- Kids Zone - the Scrap Exchange will bring a variety of 'trash' for kids to turn into their treasure, as well as an activity by the Marbles' Kids Museum.
- Elkland's Puppet Revolution presents: The Litter Brigade, featuring Ace, Junkella and Batty.
- Speakers from Al Gore’s Climate Registry – Dan Porter and Michael Shore.
- Presentation by Grady McCallie, Policy Director NC Conservation Network: "The State of the Drought"
- Local bands will play on the main stage throughout the day. (Bands include: Kickin' Grass, The Rosebuds, Mommie, The Rail Readers, the Beemones, and sitar performance by Viswas Chitnis)
- Special presentation by Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, held in conjunction with a "Take A Child Outside" activity.
- Water conservation stations.
Earth Day at Prairie Ridge
Prairie Ridge, the Museum's 38-acre field station for wildlife, sustainable living and experiential learning, located on Reedy Creek Road between the Edwards Mill Ext. and Blue Ridge Road (just past the National Guard Check Point), will host two exciting Earth Day activities on Saturday, April 19 as well. From 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., visitors can celebrate Earth Day with a morning bird walk at Prairie Ridge. For information contact Mary Ann Brittain, Mary.Ann.Brittain@ncmail.net, 919.733.7450 ext 675.
From 9 a.m. to 12 noon, volunteers will be given the opportunity to improve the environment at Prairie Ridge by working with staff to remove invasive plants. Participants will learn more about invasive species and how to reduce their impact on our native vegetation. There will also be an opportunity to tour Prairie Ridge and learn more about its efforts to restore native prairie, create wetland habitat, use sustainable building materials, save water and use renewable energy. This Earth Day Celebration will be carried out in cooperation with the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. For information contact: Brian Hahn, Brian.Hahn@ncmail.net, 919.733.7450 ext. 674.
Planet Earth Day Celebration 2008 is brought to you by the Museum in partnership with Burt's Bees, the City of Raleigh, Cherokee Investments, CAT and the Downtown Raleigh Alliance. For more information on any of the Earth Day activities, contact Steve Popson, Asst. Marketing Director, at 919-733-7450, ext. 379 or Steve.Popson@ncmail.net.
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones St., downtown Raleigh, documents and interprets natural history of the state of North Carolina through exhibits, research, collections, publications and educational programming. Website, http://www.naturalsciences.org. Hours: Mon-Sat., 9am-5pm and Sun., Noon-5pm. Admission is free. The Museum is an agency of the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, William G. Ross, Secretary.
Since 1991, Burt’s Bees has been offering distinctive all-natural personal care products. Today, Burt’s Bees is the leading manufacturer in Natural Personal Care with over 150 Earth-friendly, natural personal care products, including face care, body care, hair care, lip care, personal wash, men’s grooming, baby care, outdoor remedies, kits and gifts. Burt’s Bees has a rich tradition in corporate social responsibility and stands for The Greater Good with all their products having the highest levels of natural ingredients, nature-safe processes, and environmentally sensitive packaging. Burt’s Bees has nearly 400 employees with products available through approximately 30,000 retail stores in the United States, as well as Canada, UK, Taiwan and with its website (www.burtsbees.com).
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in downtown Raleigh, documents and interprets the natural history of the state of North Carolina through exhibits, research, collections, publications, and educational programming. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 9 am to 5 pm, and Sun., noon to 5 pm. Admission is free. Visit the Museum on the Web at naturalsciences.org. The Museum is an agency of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, William G. Ross Jr., Secretary.
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