When: Saturday, April 22, 2023, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Where: Main Street in Hendersonville between 4th and 6th Avenues and 5th Avenue between N. Wall Street and King Street

Celebrate Earth Day at Hendo Earth Fest

 

The City of Hendersonville Environmental Sustainability Board is hosting the first-ever Hendo Earth Fest in downtown Hendersonville on Earth Day from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm! Local organizations and environmental champions will educate, entertain, and raise awareness of the need to protect our planet for future generations.  This is a free, family-friendly educational event!

The festival is sponsored by the Hendersonville Environmental Sustainability Board (ESB) in association with the Blue Ridge EV Club, Team ECCO, Conserving Carolina, Mountain True, Caregivers of Mother Earth, and Earth Caring Ministry of Trinity Presbyterian Church.

The ESB has coordinated exhibits that educate and inform residents and visitors about our natural environment in a fun, festive atmosphere.

The Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO exhibits, located on the 500 block of Main Street, will focus on education, enrichment, and exploration of the ocean world.

The ESB exhibits, located on the 400 block, will provide hands-on activities and demonstrations designed to educate, renew, and expand action to protect our Western North Carolina environment and natural resources.

The Blue Ridge EV Club vehicles and exhibits on Fifth Avenue will highlight electric transportation and systems. 2023 is the year of the Electric Vehicle!  If you have an electric vehicle and would like to be a part of the event, please follow this link to sign up!

Come join your friends and neighbors to celebrate Earth Day at the very first Hendo Earth Fest!

Additional information on the event is available at www.hvlnc.gov/hendoearthfest.

 

History of Earth Day:

Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire.

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet.

The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement, and is now recognizes as the planet’s largest civic event.

 

Theme in 2023:

The theme for Earth Day 2023 is Invest in Our Planet. “This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods…together, we must Invest In Our Planet.”  Click here for more information.

Climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make our world habitable.

 

For more information, contact Pam Torlina at, [email protected].