Earth Day Party is Saturday for Sunset Hills

Sunset Hills is celebrating Earth Day next Saturday, April 23, noon-4pm at the Community Center in Watson Trail Park (behind City Hall and near the city pool.)

Sponsored by committee Green Objectives Sunset Hills, activities include information booths about conservation, vendors, clown and face painting for kids. All free. Check out the new Community Center facilities, too.

St. Louis Earth Day Festival, celebrated April 17, included Sunset Hills Alderwoman Dee Baebler, electric cars, Sappington Market and the launch of a local company/movement—the Green Bottle Movement. Check out the photos here.

Earth Day is actually designated Friday, April 22. The celebration was started in 1970 by a Wisconsin senator, and caught on from there. Wikipedia credits the Earth Day movement with the subsequent creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Other efforts aimed at conserving natural resources developed over time, and has grown into "green" awareness in construction, recycling, clothing, manufacturing, cleaning products, and practically every aspect of life—for example assessing one's own "carbon footprint" with fewer short car trips between home and errands, by planning more, walking, riding bikes and using mass transit.