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2nd Annual Queens Earth Day Fair

Date: May 15, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Show map
Central Queens YM & YWHA
67-09 108th Street
Forest Hills, NY 11375

Contact: Peggy Kurtz
Phone: 718-268-5011 ext. 151
Email: pkurtz@centralqueensy.org

RAIN OR SHINE!  (All activities indoors if it rains.)


 

Earth friendly fun for kids!  Wildlife Children's Theater, worm composting, edible ecosystem, snakes and lizards, cooking for kids, and more!  

Big Apple “Circus to Go” will be with us too!

For adults: Information, workshops, and exhibits!  Save energy, save $$$, and fight global warming!

SUSTAINABLE FOOD is this year’s theme!

• Author Anna Lappé speaking on Diet for a Hot Planet at 3:00 p.m.!

BABYSITTING WILL BE AVAILABLE DURING MS. LAPPÉ'S TALK.


 


Anna Lappé is a nationally bestselling author and a much sought-after public speaker on sustainability & food politics.  She will be speaking on the impacts of food choices on climate change. FOR MORE ON ANNA LAPPÉ, CLICK HERE.
 

Organic chocolate, cheese & coffee tastings  

• Vegan & vegetarian cooking for adults & kids!  

• Organic food co-ops

Learn how you can save energy & water, compost in an apartment, and get clean wind energy.  Find out about Queens food coops, community gardens, healthy cleaning products, biking, and lots more!

Sign up for FREE energy audits!  (Bring your last 12 months of utility bills with you to the Earth Day Fair, or a print-out of a year’s bills for both gas & electric.)  FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FREE ENERGY AUDITS & WIND ENERGY, CLICK HERE.

F R E E   CFL light bulbs, water bottles & reusable shopping bags!

Recycle: rechargeable batteries, cell phones, clothes, & shoes.

For the day's schedule, please click here!

To see our Earth Day flyer, click here! 

     For more information about the Fair, call 718 268-5011 x 151 or email pkurtz@centralqueensy.org.

A special "Thank You" to all our Sponsors:

Presented by Queens Green Alliance & the Central Queens YM & YWHA, with: Bamboomoves, Beyond Oil NYC, Boy Scouts Troop 96, Church in the Gardens, Forest Hills Jewish Center, Forest Hills Tuv Ha’Aretz CSA, Hillcrest Jewish Center, Israel Center for Conservative Judaism, Marathon Jewish Community Center, Queens Community for Cultural Judaism, Queens Holistic Moms, Queens Jewish Center, Queens Jewish Community Council, Reform Temple of Forest Hills, Rego Park Green Alliance, Transportation Alternatives.

  
To learn how Con Edison’s energy efficiency programs can help you save energy & $$$, click here!

Learn more about You Save Green energy efficiency programs! Click here!

               

              

                    

                

 

 

 




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