Celebrate Earth Day with an Act of Green!

Each year, events are held across the world to celebrate our Earth and mark the anniversary of the modern environmental movement on the 22nd of April. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to diversify and mobilize the world in the environmental movement.

Each year, over 1 billion (yes, that's right BILLION) people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest civic observance day in the world. Starting in 2011, EDN launched "A Billion Acts of Green," an environmental service campaign to inspire and reward individual and organizational initiatives that support sustainability. The goal is to register 1 billion actions before the global Earth Summit in Rio in 2012.

So far there is over 849,000,000 acts registered!

You can be one of them!

Met Council is offering a variety of volunteer opportunities to commemorate Earth Day this year. Here are just a few:

• "Greening" the outdoor space for our low-income seniors
  - Cleaning and planting a garden at a residence in the upper east side of Manhattan.
  - Friendly, hardworking, and ready to get dirty- volunteers needed!
• Creating take-home herb gardens for low-income seniors
  - Help clients make and take home a planter of herbs at our site in Flushing, Queens.
  - Friendly, hardworking, and ready to get dirty- volunteers needed!
  - Multilingual volunteers are a plus! (Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Russian).

If you are interested and would like to pledge an act of green this Earth Day, contact Simone Carvalho at 212-453-9648 or scarvalho@metcouncil.org