This year is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and the City of Boise is throwing a party to celebrate! The city is putting its own spin on Earth Day and focusing on the community’s passion, innovation, and the practices that reduce waste and reuse resources in creative ways. The city is looking for local businesses, organizations and individuals to come and share what they are doing to reduce what they are using, whether that is waste, energy or water.
The April 22nd event will take place at JUMP and feature live local music, food, drinks, art and activities, and will showcase local organizations that are creating new strategies to reduce and reuse. The applications are open now to participate as an exhibitor, a food or drink vendor, or to donate to the event. Applications will close at 5 p.m. on March 4th.
This event will also launch the City of Boise’s new Curb It program, Reduce and Reuse. The changes in recycling over the past few years have made it clearer than ever that recycling is not enough to address the amount of waste that we create in Boise. The Reduce and Reuse program will focus on real changes our city can make to cut down waste and bring together our community to focus on local innovation, change policy and behaviors and highlight what is possible.
Visit the event webpage for more information and to apply to be a part of this citywide celebration of our community’s innovation and inspiration to reduce and reuse.
