Charlotte Earth Day
After a month of Earth Daying, Charlotte celebrated a day of Earth Day last Saturday, April 27, at the Charlotte Library.
The lunar cycle worth of activities encouraging people to embrace their home planet came to a close with the wish that it could be Earth Day every day of the year.
About 80 people came to participate in the denouement of positive climate festivities.
- Alexa Lewis, left, and Sue Smith, former deputy tree wardens check out trees donated out by Branch Out Burlington to be given away.
- Susan Blood hands Peter Demick a seedling from the oldest living sycamore in Connecticut, which he will plant on his property. Both are members of the Charlotte Conservation Commission.
- Library director Margaret Woodrum and Wolfger Schneider of the Charlotte Energy Committee cut up cleaned veggies and ramps for Disco Soup, a Slow Food demonstration of ways food waste reduction can help with the climate crisis.
- Chittenden County Forester Ethan Tapper explains that, because 80 percent of Vermont forests are privately owned, we have a collective interest in helping owners make good management decisions.