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EarthCorps' Fifth Anniversary of Earth Month in April 2009

Posted Mar 31 2009 - 10:18am

This April is the fifth anniversary of Earth Month! In 2003, when EarthCorps proposed the idea of extending Earth Day into first a week, then a whole month of environmental volunteering, people scoffed. One funder after another denied our requests for sponsorship on the grounds that it wasn't feasible. Finally, The Boeing Company and a dozen individual donors stepped forward to help make it happen. In 2004, we held our first Earth Month, and ushered in the Green Seattle Partnership.

This April, we're planning to work with 2,800 volunteers at 21 projects in nine cities!

EarthCorps' efforts to leverage volunteers to green up city forests is looked to as a national model for rebuilding urban ecosystem infrastructure, similar to how FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps improved our country's parks and natural areas in the 1930s.

Worldwide, EarthCorps alumni are organizing and leading service projects in 60 countries. Many of the projects will happen on Earth Day - a day of worldwide volunteering that embodies EarthCorps' mission to build global community through local environmental service.

You make this possible. Without the commitment and forward thinking of people like you, Earth Month would not have happened. Now that we are making auditable progress reversing the precipitous decline of urban forests, we are expanding our horizons to Puget Sound watersheds as a whole. The ecosystems that feed the region's unique and beautiful waterways are the lifeblood of our region and our economy.

This year's Earth Day projects take place along the Duwamish - Seattle's great river. Along with a coalition of native peoples and nonprofits, government agencies and volunteers, we hope to enable commerce, industry, neighbors and endangered Chinook salmon to coexist on the river.

Please join in supporting EarthCorps this month to help us take this next big leap in establishing a healthy, thriving, sustainable environment in our region. Visit www.earthcorps.org for more details as proudly kickoff our fifth celebration of Earth Month.

Volunteers are still needed for EarthCorps events all around Seattle.

April/EARTH MONTH 2009

Saturday April 4 Pioneer Park (10am-2pm): Mercer Island Earth Month Kick-off.
Saturday April 4 Me-Kwa-Mooks Park Earth Month Kick-off (10am-2pm): West Seattle. This is a Green Seattle Partnership project.
Saturday April 11 Squally Beach (9:30am-3:30pm): Tacoma with Citizens for a Healthy Bay.
Friday April 17 West Duwamish Greenbelt Brandon/16^th Ave (10am-2pm): West Seattle. This is a Green Seattle Partnership project.
Saturday April 18 DUWAMISH ALIVE ! at West Duwamish Greenbelt/Pigeon Point Park/Cooper Elementary School (9:30am-2pm): West Seattle with NATURE CONSORTIUM. This is a Green Seattle Partnership project.
Sunday April 19 Pioneer Park (10am-2pm): Mercer Island Earth Day event.
Saturday April 25 Mowitch (9:30am-3:30pm): Citizens for a Healthy Bay Earth Day event in Tacoma.
Saturday April 25 Global Youth Service Day at Magnuson Park (10am-2pm): North Seattle. This is a Green Seattle Partnership project.
Saturday April 25 Island Crest Park (10am-2pm): in Mercer Island.
Saturday April 25 Juanita Bay Park (10am-2pm): Green Kirkland Partnership Earth Day event

Click here for the calendar of EarthCorps events.

Click here for the calendar of all events.

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