The stay at home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic are actually helping ourselves and our planet...here's your opportunity to learn more in a virtual version of JCC's annual Earthfest!
As part of its Earth Day program, JCC's Earth Awareness Club members encourages everyone to help curb water pollution.
Earthfest provides entertainment by local artists as well as activities, vendors, and programs focused on creating and sustaining a healthier environment. Check out the sites of those who had planned to be at Earthfest:
- Musician Jamie Haight
- Sun-Dance-Kids Farm
- Wild Creatures with Chris Duckett
- Alpacaville
- Spider’s Herbs
- Butch Poole's Camera Infusions
- Mike’s Nursery and Hydroponic Growing Supplies
- Lady of the Lake Gift Shop
- Green Heron Growers
- Jamestown Biodome Project
- Royal Fern Nursery
Interested in more community celebrations of Earth Day 2020? Check out:
Roger Tory Peterson Institute: Feeling cooped up? We can help. RTPI brings you 30 Birds in 30 Days. For the next month, we’ll share images – from Roger Tory Peterson, RTPI staff, artists and friends – of the birds we love. While we’re social distancing, spring’s a-popping. Our favorite birds are returning to our backyards and to our nature preserves. #30Birds30Days
Jamestown Audubon Community Nature Center & The “50 Years of Earth Day Challenge”: On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans – 10% of the U.S. population at the time – protested environmental ignorance and demanded a new way forward for our planet. The first Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis: oil spills, smog, and rivers so polluted they caught fire. It helped launch the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water and Endangered Species acts.
To help honor and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, ACNC is conducting a “50 Years of Earth Day Challenge” on Facebook. Until April 22, ACNC is posting challenges that help recognize our relationship with Earth. It may be to spot a wildflower, or take a walk along a creek, or find a pink flamingo on the nature center grounds. When you take a picture of yourself engaging in a challenge and post it on Facebook, it will be combined with others for an Earth Day video. If you are on Facebook, you can join in, participate in the challenges, and share the opportunity with friends. Go to ACNC's events page on Facebook, click on the “Apr 22 Wed 12 AM” box, watch the video, then scroll down and click on Discussion to learn the challenges.
You can celebrate Earth Day 2020 and support ACNC by making a donation toward keeping Audubon’s trails open and safely maintained. Visit ACNC and click on the Donate Now button to make a donation of $19.70. If you would like to donate more, go to AudubonCNC.org/Donate.
ACNC has ideas for activities that would be good for you, good for Audubon, and good for nature. Check out the possibilities: planting and fostering milkweed seeds, collecting fairy house and fairy garden materials, making dragon eggs, and spring cleaning.
ACNC is located at 1600 Riverside Road, Jamestown. While the Nature Center building is closed until further notice due to COVID-19 and state recommendations, visitors are welcome to walk the trails and view Liberty, Audubon’s non-releasable bald eagle, from dawn to dusk daily.
Community organizations committed to improving our environment locally, which positively impacts or global footprint:
- Chautauqua County Humane Society
- Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District
- Chautauqua Lake Association
- Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy
- Grow Jamestown
Earthfest Sponsors:
JCC Earth Awareness Club, JCC Student Senate, and JCC's College Program Committee
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