Earth Day Celebration in Prospect Park! (Event Over)

It's Earth Day in Prospect Park! Help us celebrate with a packed weekend of fun events.

Discover Tour: Natural Revival, 3 p.m.
Audubon naturalists explain what can be done to protect nature in Prospect Park and beyond. Audubon Center. Free.

Earth Day Pledge, 1 – 4 p.m.
Learn about what you can do to help the environment by reducing waste, conserving energy, recycling, saving water, and protecting our natural resources. Make an Earth Day pledge that will be posted at the Boathouse. Audubon Center. Free.

Hands On New York, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Meet at Long Meadow & Endale Arch. Enter Park at Flatbush Avenue & Eastern  Parkway. Spruce up the trees and paths along the nation's longest meadow in any urban park with volunteers from the community and New York Cares. (718) 965- 8960. Saturday Only.

Youth Earth Day Fest, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Join the Prospect Park Youth Council and discover what individuals can do to prevent global warming. Help with recycling, gardening, composting and painting, and check out great music by Steel Sensation. Bring your old cell phones for recycling. Bowling Green.  Saturday Only.

B’EarthDay Bash, 1 – 4 p.m.
Celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Prospect Park Audubon Center, as well as the birthdays of John James Audubon and Frederick Law Olmsted. Visitors can count on a fun-filled day of musical performances, arts and crafts, and more. Audubon Center. Free. Sunday Only.

Go Green at the Zoo, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Visit the Zoo’s animal ambassadors – the Hamadryas Baboon family – and find out what WCS is doing to save wild animals all around the globe. Zoo. Free with admission.

(from nycgovparks.org)