Here are some of the cleanup events coming up, starting on Friday, Earth Day, and continuing over the next week or so. This being Providence, these events all involve the water’s edge; choose footwear accordingly. Please click on the individual sites to preregister, for getting info on age requirements and specific details about what gear …
(4.22) Head over to Riverside Park in Olneyville this Thursday for an Earth Day cleanup event. Sponsored by the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council (WRWC): We’ll be preparing the park for spring and summer visitors by spreading mulch and picking up litter. Let’s celebrate our planet by taking care of it as a community! Bring your …
The enormity of ‘Like a Buoy, Like a Barrel’ — the eye-popping installation that arrived last fall on Dyer Street — should suggest to passersby the scale of the problem of plastics in our environment. That project was spearheaded by local environmental activist and musician, Jen Long — the woman behind The Whale Guitar Project …
(4.27) Volunteers wanted for various cleanup events taking place around town this coming weekend. *Waterplace Park Cleanup, Saturday, 9am to 1pm. Join us on Saturday, April 27 from 9am to 1pm downtown on the river. We will be focusing our clean up efforts on the Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket Rivers within Waterplace Park. Volunteer help is …
Plastics! That is the Earth Day theme this year and one I have been writing about for years (here and here). Not only can’t recycling solve this, but it has been estimated that less than 10% of plastics are even getting recycled. The big problem is that plastic molecules do not decompose; they do, however, …
Earth Day is Sunday, April 22, and cleanups have been planned around the state — some this weekend, some the next. Try ’em all! The mural seen here is one of several at Save the Bay Headquarters. Let’s start there. Save the Bay has a cleanup scheduled this Sunday from 10am to noon at its …
(4.23) Cleanups and e-waste collection are scheduled for Saturday. Join in. WaterFire Providence is celebrating its 6th annual Earth Day cleanup in conjunction with Providence Parks. Clean-ups include Waterplace Basin, Donigian Park and O’Brien Park. Unclear where exactly people are meeting or when. Go to the PDF for more info, or contact chantal@waterfire.org Dispose of …
I give up. It’s impossible for me to continue my years-long rant against bottled water and plastic shopping bags since the explosion of K-Cups. These evil pods are not only plastic but they can’t be recycled (NPR 1.28.15). That their popularity follows the publication of Alan Weisman’s “Polymers are Forever” is particularly galling. We now …
(4.22.14) A list of Earth Day events and activities in Providence, and around the state, can be found at What Grows On in Rhode Island. Roger Williams Park Zoo will be holding a Party for the Planet all week. Save the Bay conducts shoreline clean-ups (so popular some of them are filled). The Woonasquatucket River …
Hey I can see my house from here (never gets old). Several neighborhood cleanups are scheduled to celebrate Earth Day, many on Saturday (Earth Day is actually Monday). Start on Thursday and head down to Promenade and Kinsley Streets to volunteer at the Providence Woonasquatucket River Greenway Cleanup. On Saturday the Blackstone Parks Conservancy has …
Friday, April 20 — 420 Weed Day. We don’t know how Obama, Bush 43, or Clinton will be celebrating this afternoon, but we do know that these United States Presidents have tried marijuana — they just didn’t get caught and ruin their lives. Spend a little time today learning about the growing nationwide movement to …
Earth Day is coming up and events are scheduled around the state. A comprehensive calendar (including Arbor Day) can be found at What Grows On RI. Earth Day itself is Thursday, April 22nd and one of the annual Woonasquatucket River cleanups was originally scheduled for that day. But according to the Narragansett Bay Commission site …
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Providence Community Library will be presenting two free bike-themed films this Wednesday for Earth Week at Knight Memorial Library. Join us in watching “Return of the Scorcher” and “Critical Mass“, both by director Ted White. Providence Bike Coalition will be on hand with information about biking in Providence and to answer any related questions that …
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