Upper Moreland Township Will Host An Earth Day Fair Later This Month

UPPER MORELAND, PA — The community is invited later this month to take part in a local Earth Day celebration at Masons Mill Park in Upper Moreland Township.

The event is scheduled for April 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will include a variety of activities, programs and demonstrations for the entire family.

The folks from Briar Bush Nature Center in Abington plan to drop by, offering attendees a live animal presentation around 11 in the morning.

The event will also include plenty of children's activities; a presentation by the Audubon Society; a beekeeping demonstration; information on topics such as rain gardens, rain barrels, energy use and native plants; information about electric cars; live music and more.

The Earth Day Fair is sponsored by the Upper Moreland Township Environmental Advisory Council.

Earth Day's origins date back to 1970, in what environmentalists say was a pivotal moment in the birth of the modern-day environmental movement, according to a website about Earth Day.

Organizers say that up until that point, many Americans, who were consuming vast amounts of leaded gas through "massive and inefficient automobiles," remained pretty oblivious about general environmental concerns and how pollution in the air affected individuals' health.

The website says that two decades later, in 1990, the Earth Day movement went global, helping to mobilize 200 million people in 141 countries and "lifting environmental issues onto the world stage."

According to organizers, Earth Day is now recognized as the world's largest secular observance, marked by more than a billion people each year as a "day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes."