Earth Day 2005
Every year St. Louis holds a large “Earth Day celebration”:http://www.stlouisearthday.org in our enormous Forest Park. Bands perform on the outdoor stages, volunteers cheerfully operate valet bicycle parking stations, vendors sell local and organic foods, and for-profit and not-for-profit organizations from around St. Louis set up booths to inform people of the steps they are taking to improve the world we live in.
This year the main celebrations are being held on May 1st, the week after Earth Day’s official date (April 22nd). The weekend of the actual day is busy with other events around town, at places like the “Botanical Gardens”:http://www.mobot.org and the “City Museum”:http://www.citymuseum.org.
This year for the first time the St. Louis Biodiesel Club will have a booth at the festivities. We’ll be making small batches of fuel at the booth for demonstration purposes, have samples available for people to handle, answer questions about biodiesel in general, and biodiesel homebrewing. We may also get some space to bring a biodiesel car or two down, as well as a portable processor that we are building for full-size fuel making demonstrations.
The event is fun to attend, and should be even more fun to participate in. Education comes naturally to me, and I’m excited about the possibility of getting ourselves out there on a more active basis.
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