The Sierra Club’s Carol and Nancy cooked vegetarian tacos using the induction cooking method, which according to the Environmental Protection Agency is safer and leaves a cleaner carbon footprint.
Four friends have fun at the leaf-blowing contest, hoping to get pine cones into the cups.
Mallory explains about Ridwell, a company that picks up plastic and other hard-to-recycle items at your front door.
Natalie Caulkins and Bingo welcome participants with earth-friendly information from Republic Services
Alex, Bailey, Mya, and Eli create stunning crafts at the recycle table.
Sara from Edmonds Public Works passes out free items to help people conserve water.
The Edmonds College, food truck, Triton Taste, was on hand offering tasty vegetarian meals
Sherry from Master Gardeners, Snohomish County Extension, explains the benefits of composting and that everyone can do it.
Ricky from Sno-Isle Libraries displayed books about hiking and ecosystems.
Edmonds City Councilmember Susan Paine ran the leaf-blowing contest.
Hundreds of people attended the Edmonds Earth Fair Saturday at Frances Anderson Center Playfield, where they explored ways to make earth-friendly lifestyle changes.
Saturday’s event was the first of four events aimed at encouraging attendees to reduce their climate impact. The City of Edmonds is in the process of implementing the new Edmonds Climate Action Plan, which charts a course toward climate neutrality by 2050. To facilitate this, the city created the Climate Champions series that will take place over the spring and summer of 2023.
Participants experienced first-hand the benefits of induction cooking, compost and soil care, and learned about healthy eating options and use of water-lowering devices.
Ace Hardware also donated an electric leaf blower to be raffled off.
— Story and photos by Misha Carter
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Thank you, Edmonds city staff, for this effort to educate our citizens about how to recycle, repurpose and reuse.