Kids Hit the Streets for Serious Green FunFREE BICYCLE VALET SERVICE at Palumbo Park, 9th & Bainbridge.

Sponsored by Trophy Bikes Courtesy of the Dept. of Recreation.Staffed by Neighborhood Bike Works

  

• Feed livestock from the first, oldest & biggest urban agriculture school.-Saul H.S.

• Make musical instruments from recycled materials - and hear kids perform too

• The band “Cloud Cult” headlines the MusEcology Concert. (Do not miss.)

• Kids’ clothtes at the “So Re Fa” Show - socially responsible fashion-on curbside catwalk.

• Enter the Eco-Poetry Contest

• Ride the energy-bike — yes, it’s harder to power an incandescent bulb than an energy-saver. Thanks, Earth Force

• Live heirloom chicks raised by Strawberry Mansion’s Gideon School students.

• Learn to fix-a-flat-tire, if you’re a bicyclist 9 years old and up. Bring yours or use ours. And thanks, Neighborhood Bike Works.

• Bicycle Skill & Thrill Show - police work at its finest

• Solar Sprint Vehicles - a school specialty.

• Organic Pie-Eating Contest - it’s about speed not excess.

• Learn how to mount your bike on the bus.

• Interactive 3-D watershed model, for kids 6+ to adults, from Earth Force.

• “Folder Tournament” - Go for speed. Tri-fold bikes collapse into place in about 15 sec. Thanks, Trophy Bikes.

• Make a Model of a “green building”, with Habitat for Humanity.

• Meet kids, teachers and principals from area schools with programs in environmental science, sustainable planning and architecture - K to College.

• Convert your bike to a “city loader” kit -save energy, haul stuff on your bike

• Giant puppets (Spiral Q)

• Street theater (Hotel Obligado and LAF Traveling Repertory)

• Mime Janet Berkowitz.

• Bring your batteries and cell phones to Whole Foods for recycling.

• Life-size Wm. Penn, from local foods - sculptor Jim Victor.

• Talk with civic leaders, technology pioneers, solar experts, green roofers, fresh farmers, policy makers, politicians and planners

• Eat fresh, organic and local! - the napkins are recycled, too, thanks to SCA Americas.

 For parents of babies, the cloth diaper workshop is free, courtesy of the nonprofit Maternal Wellness Center.  Teens — DO NOT MISS the Eco-Poetry Project, Eco-Film Forum and brilliant music concerts — Headliner at the MusEcology Concert — Cloud Cult (Earthology Label). They hit the college radio charts in the #3 position after two weeks out!.