Friday April 22 from 6pm is Car-Free Earth Day Celebration - see AVATAR on 3700 Wilshire Blvd

Have you noticed that children today are much more conscious of the vulnerability of our Planet Earth than previous generations?   Perhaps the detection of the radiation particles in California carried by the jet streams from the earthquake-damaged Japanese nuclear reactor demonstrated how connected we are as inhabitants sharing the atmosphere of Planet Earth.  Perhaps it is from program such as the PBS Nature that our children are able to see how fragile our ecosystems are and how so many birds, amphibians, and mammals are still at risk for extinction in their lifetime?  Perhaps it is their participation in public volunteer programs such as Heal The Bay's Nothing but Sand and LA River Clean-up Days that gives our children the hands-on sense of power from being able to make a difference one hand at a time?  Both organizations have Earth Day clean-up volunteering opportunities --- and both are great events for families to have fun together on a day in environmental service.

http://www.healthebay.org/volunteer
http://folar.org/?page_id=5   You can choose from many locations closest to you or most interesting to you.

But this Wilshire Center's Earth Day celebration - its second annual event - is new to me.  Imagine a car-free day, environmental and watching Avatar on an outdoor screen.  However, it will be a challenge to find a bus that gets there in a reasonable time :)  Anyway, here are the details:


THIS YEARS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 22ND 2011 AT 6:00PM AT 3700 WILSHIRE BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90010
The WCBID staff is currently planning the 4th Annual, April 22nd Earth Day – Car Free Day event, which will take  place on the lawn at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., between Oxford Ave. and Serrano Ave. This year’s event falls on a Friday (4/22/11) and is scheduled to begin at 6:00 PM and will feature a (35 foot) movie screening of the director’s cut of “Avatar." Other features include a presentation of the Cool District Program and the Carbon Master Plan, face painting for the kids, community booths, ewaste recycling and free tree adoption. The Earth Day banners are now up along Wilshire Blvd.


http://www.wilshirecenter.com/earthday/