Press release from A-B Tech:
Join A-B Tech for its annual Earth Day Festival on Wednesday, April 17, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students and employees will celebrate outdoors with a variety of environmental booths, drum circle, photo booth, t-shirts, flowerpot painting, puppet making, lunch, T-shirts, and a parade.
The A-B Tech Climate Café also will have booth where attendees can write an Earth Day poem, draw an Earth Day doodle, sign-up for a monthly email, or create a pennant advocating for climate change action.
The event includes a Hard to Recycle collection hosted by the college’s Sustainability Committee: Bring your ink cartridges, cell phones and cords, batteries (AAA-D), cardboard, and formed Styrofoam for recycling.
The following environmental partners will have tables with activities, volunteer/intern opportunities, and swag (free or by donation):
- Appalachian Wildlife Refuge with Ambassador Animals
- Friends of the Smokies
- Green Built Alliance
- Land of Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition with EV Car Demo
- Mountain True
- Bear Wise NC Wildlife Resources Commission
- River Link
- Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
- Street Creature Puppet Collective
- The North Carolina Arboretum
- Asheville Green Works
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