CELEBRATION of EARTH DAY’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Earth Day Festival 2010 was a great success!

Over 600 attendees, more than a dozen community partners, 60 plus volunteers and 150 enjoying the incredible music of Shannon Whitworth and Balsam Range.

Special features of the event included a watershed festival that taught water stewardship to kids in a fun way, a Green Olympics that offered recycled bowling and green building with recycled materials and much more, a live stage featuring local music all day long, battery recycling, sustainable gardening workshops, green energy workshops that covered everything from solar power to discussions about our energy future, nonstop environmental films including student films from area middle schools and the early college high school, and two dozen exhibitors and great food.

Thanks to our volunteers, community partners and sponsors who made this event one to remember. Special thanks to RBC BANK, Blue Ridge Community College, Pardee Hospital, HPC Printing, Verve Magazine, BOLD LIFE Magazine, Sundance Power Systems, Duke Power, MAST General Store, Advanced Thermal Solutions, Higher Ground Water Solutions, SEEExpo, MountainXpress, Times-News, WNCW, Back Home Magazine, Comfort Central, Conservation Pros, Eco-Mow, Biltmore Estate, Global Warming Task Force, Green River Adventures, Hendersonville Community Co-op, Henderson County Master Gardeners, Hendersonville Tree Board, Peace At Hand, REI, Carolina Ace Hardware, Fatz Café, Two Guys Pizza, Main Street Café, Fairview Chiropractic Clinic, PPG Olympic Paint, Henderson County Solid Waste Division, Soil and Water Conservation, Team ECCO, Flat Rock Playhouse YOUTheatre, WNC Nature Center, Environmental Club of BRCC, Project Conserve/AmeriCorp, Girl Scouts Troop 30225, Project Challenge, Henderson County Young Leaders Program, Henderson County Master Gardeners, and City of Hendersonville Utilities Department.

Join us next year for an even better event!