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Utah groups to celebrate Earth Day

By Joe Bauman

Deseret News

Published: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:45 a.m. MDT

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An energy film festival is planned for 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in Park City's Santy Auditorium in the city Library and Education Building. Sponsored by the Utah Sierra Club and Recycle Utah, the movies will include presentations on the power of community and environmental issues.

Through April 24, Intermountain Healthcare will be presenting nutrition information to students in K-12, discussing "how their food intake has global impacts." No volunteers are sought for the presentations, which will take place in several locations.

At Springdale, Washington County, on Saturday, "Earth Day climate-friendly festivities (will be held) at the entrance of Zion National Park." The "Locally is Globally" event will last from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m.

"Among the free activities are live music that will be powered by solar panels, a drum circle, drum workshop, recycling, Arbor Day ceremony, family games, organic food sampling, bio-fuels, alternative building materials, solar products, native plant sources and adobe workshops," says an Earth Day site on the Internet.

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In Moab from noon until 4 p.m. Saturday, "Chalk One Up!" will host a festival at Millcreek Parkway. According to the Earth Day Network, this is a "community celebration encouraging healthy habits and habitats for humans and our animal companions. Event sponsored by Moab Arts Council, city of Moab, Humane Society of Moab Valley and others."

A thousand homes — mostly in the Salt Lake area, but some around Park City, Summit Park and even Fort Worth, Texas — will receive a gift of a free compact fluorescent light bulb on Sunday. Each of the 100 employees of GSBS Architects will give away bulbs to their neighbors as a gesture of conservation from the architecture firm, which prides itself on a green attitude, according to the firm's president, Michael Stransky.

Statewide, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality is encouraging Utahns to take advantage of free disposal of mercury products such as old thermometers, old chemistry sets and thermostats. They can be delivered to local health departments throughout Utah. Check with local health departments for times and locations.

E-mail: bau@desnews.com