Celebrate Nature and Clean Up on Earth Day

Every day should be treated as Earth Day, but Sunday is officially hailed as the day to celebrate all things environment with many communities getting an early start on saving the planet this Saturday.

Communities are pitching in Saturday to clean up everything from levees to parks, while other cities have organized efforts to protect animals and other wildlife.

San Francisco's Earth Day festivities include celebrations at the San Francisco Zoo which will offer recycling and composting games for children, talks with zookeepers about wildlife conservation and presentations about energy conversation.

San Francisco's interactive science museum The Exploratorium will offer a creative use of trash with museum visitors creating a life-like coral reef made entirely of discarded buoys, ropes, plastic bottles, cans and more as part of Open MAKE: Trash.
         
In Santa Cruz, community members are gearing up for a record number of cleanup efforts with three Adopt-a-Levee San Lorenzo River cleanups scheduled with the Sunrise Rotary Club, Albert's Organics and the Rotary Club of Santa Cruz: at the Highway 1 overpass at Felker Street to the Water Street Bridge, the Laurel Street Bridge to the Riverside Avenue Bridge and from the Riverside Avenue Bridge to the river's mouth.

Beach cleanups are also scheduled at Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz and at Manresa State Beach in Rio del Mar.

All cleanups start at 10 a.m.

~Bay City News