What do walking tours and the Friday Night Street Festival have in common?
They both aim to educate us about the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the sustainability of our community while having a lot of fun doing it.
According to Julie McGuire, municipal representative of the Summerland Climate Action Committee, “one of our biggest challenges in Summerland is reducing our carbon footprint for fuel consumption as so many people commute to work.”
Come out to the Earth Week Street Festival on Friday, April 19 from 3 to 6 p.m. on your bikes, trikes, skateboards and scooters.
For the kids there is a bike decorating event and parade, a scavenger hunt, face painting, games and wooden toy making.
For the teens, there is live music, and a recyclable material Trashion! Competition and Show.
Adults can learn about which vehicles can save you money on gas and make Summerland’s energy consumption more sustainable.
See electric cars, smart cars, scooters, skateboards and bikes.
B.C. Transit will be there to show options for Summerland’s proposed bus transit.
Fortis B.C. will also be on hand handing out freebies and talking about reducing home energy consumption.
There will be a recycle bin to drop off old electronics and a Cardboard City event so that you can build a new vision of Summerland.
Your feet are the best way to reduce your carbon footprint, so join David Gregory, historian and Lisa Scott, biologist in a History, Geology, Wildflowers and Wildlife of Prairie Valley walking tour on Thursday, April 18 from 1 to 4 p.m. leaving from the Summerland Rodeo Grounds.
On this seven-kilometre walking tour, you will explore the history of early Summerland and its natural beauty.
Or you can take a tour of Summerland Ornamental Gardens drought resistant trees and learn how to build a mason bee nest. Mason bees can aid in the pollination of your garden. This is being held Thursday April 18 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Another way to use your feet is at the Geocaching Earth Day Challenge. Solve the mystery puzzle cache to get the GPS coordinates, find the cache and you might win a prize.
For these and more Earth Week events visit www.summerlandearthweek.ca
