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Boulder Earth Week '97 Activities
Bring the family! Celebrate the beauty of the natural world, enjoy
activities that enhance our sense of place, and help play an ongoing
role in caring for the Earth.
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Saturday, April 19
Activity Time Cost Where Contact
information
Lecture,
"Colorado Chautauqua Call Boulder
Landscapes: Community Energy
Designs for 9AM Free House, 900 Conservation
Water Baseline Center at
Conservation" 441-3278
City of Boulder
Open Space hike. Flatirons Vista
Wildlife Trailhead (on
Folklore with 9-11AM Free Hwy. 93, 0.3 Call 441-4142
Ranger Lynette miles south of
Anderson. Hwy. 128)
Sawhill Ponds
Restoration. To register,
Plant native 0.6 miles north call Lisa
trees and 9AM-2PM Free of Valmont on Dierauf at
grasses; restore 75th St. 441-3408
native habitat.
Earth Adventures
for children
grades 1-5.
Includes nature CU
hikes, potting 11AM-3PM $10 Environmental Call 492-8308
plants, study of Center
trees, scavenger
hunts.
Games and Collage
activities for Children's
children, 2:30-4PM $2.50 Museum, Aspen Call 440-0053
focused on a Plaza, 2065
sense of place. 30th St.
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Sunday, April 20
Activity Time Cost Where Contact
information
Exploring Place
Discovery
Program. Creative Boulder Creek, Call Burke
activities for 1PM Free Library Miller at
kids and adults Bridge, 11th 543-7883
to explore the and Canyon
natural world.
Silent march with
Sulak Sivaraksa. Meet in
Walk for the parking lot of
Earth sponsored The Dairy Call Naropa at
by Buddhist 3PM Free Center for the 546-3550
Alliance for Arts, 2590
Social Walnut
Engagement.
B-Earth Day
Fund-raiser for $25-45 Macky Call E-Town at
E-Town featuring ($25 Auditorium, 443-8696 or
James Taylor, 7PM seats University of email
Suzanne Vega and sold Colorado etown@usa.net
special guests. out)
Spirit and Earth:
Finding Common
Ground - an First Call Janet
interfaith 7PM Free Christian McCabe at
dialogue on Church, 950 530-7424
religion and the 28th St.
environment.
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Monday, April 21
Activity Time Cost Where Contact
information
CU Campus
Earth Summit. To register for
Green University lunch, call the
building, Free Memorial CU Environmental
sustainable 8:30AM-5PM (lunch Center, Center at
design, waste is $6) Broadway 492-8308 by
reduction and and Euclid. April 15th
recycling.
Eco-Products 1780 55th
Open House 3-7PM Free St. Call 449-1876
Slide show on
logging in the CU Campus, Call Wilderness
San Luis 7:30PM Free Chem 142 Study Group at
Valley 492-8308
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Tuesday, April 22 - Earth Day
Activity Time Cost Where Contact
information
CU Campus Earth
Summit. Chemical
use in To register
landscaping, University for lunch,
hazardous Free Memorial call the CU
materials, 8:30AM-5PM (lunch is Center, Environmental
alternative $6) Broadway Center at
transportation, and Euclid. 492-8308 by
environmental April 15th
studies.
Children's
Festival.
Storytelling, Glenn
writing and Miller Ball Call CU
illustrating 10AM-2PM Free Room, Environmental
environmental University Center at
books by kids. Memorial 492-8308
For elementary Center
school students.
Naropa
Earth Day Institute,
Ceremony and 12N-5PM Free 2130 Call 546-3550
Activities Arapahoe
Ave.
Talk by Joan
Halifax, author,
anthropologist,
and buddhist
teacher in the Naropa
order of Thich Institute,
Nhat Hanh. 2PM Free 2130 Call 546-3550
Activities: Arapahoe
music, poetry, Ave.
display and
performance art,
environmental
groups.
Earth Day
Evening Dance.
Dance party with
African music
from Chimanimani
Marimba and
Mbira Ensemble, $5 Boulder
and Bamboche, a advance, Theater, Call Eco-Cycle
drum ensemble. 7PM $6.50 at 2034 14th at 444-6634
Info from local the door St.
environmental
groups. Door
prizes,
including a
Schwinn Cruiser
bicycle.
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Saturday, April 26
Activity Time Cost Where Contact
information
Open Space Earth Foothills
Day Planting. Nature Center, To register,
Planting 100 4201 Broadway call Steve
native plants and 9AM-2PM Free (outside, 1/2 Mertz at
making rabbit mile west of 441-4495 x249
guards. building)
Treehouse Day.
Nursery school
kids make their Treehouse Call Michelle
own pots, 10AM Free Nursery, 75th Pool at
pine-cone bird and Valmont Rd. 449-8733
feeders, and plant
seeds.
Eco-living Skills
Fair. Seminars and
activities on
xeriscaping,
composting,
reducing junk mail
and other ways to Resource 2000 Call Boulder
conserve Yard. Old Energy
resources. Grand 11AM-2PM Free Brickyard, 63rd Conservation
opening of St. between Center at
Resource 2000 Valmont and 441-3278
program, which Arapahoe
reclaims building
materials from
construction and
demolition
projects.
Earth Adventures
for children
grades 1-5.
Includes nature CU
hikes, potting 11AM-3PM $10 Environmental Call 492-8308
plants, study of Center
trees, scavenger
hunts.
Seminar on
Waterwise and Treehouse
Wildlife Nursery, 75th Call Michelle
gardening, 2PM Free St. and Valmont Pool at
showcasing Rd. 449-8733
Xeriscape CD-ROM.
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Last modified: 02:06, April 14, 1997