JET California's first public Earth Day event took place on April 12th 2008 in Cupertino, as part of the green, local & organic vendor fair organized by
Whole Foods Market. There were around 20 stalls belonging to several food companies and a few organizations were presenting environmental ideas related to Solar Energy, Tree plantation, Compost making etc. , More than 100 visitors attended the JetCalifornia stall with "Every Day Earth day "theme and around 60 of them enthusiastically participated in the Earth day quiz. Winners walked away with a plant or an energy efficient light bulb. People liked the Earth day cartoons, PG&E book-lets, the information related to the environment and of course, the nuts and dry fruits. We also prepared a simple presentation to highlight the problems Man has inflicted on the environment and several ways of containing the damage already done. The crowd was very enthusiastic to learn more about the Earth and the Environment. A good number of volunteers made sure that the event went well without any trouble. In Cupertino and Fremont on April 18th 2008 kids participated in planting several potted flowers. On April 27th 2008 Prajna kids in San Jose participated in planting flowers.
Ideas for future events:
- For an outdoor event, Quiz seems to be the best vehicle to get the points across. So, we may want to enhance the content of the Quiz with more information along with more useful answer sheets and also train our volunteers on the answers.
- If we organize any indoor events on the subject of Earth day, we should definitely complete the power point presentation by adding narration and making it into a Video.
- It was hard to get people to register. This is to be expected as no one wants to get more junk mail. Logbook is probably not that useful for a public program like this. Its definitely a good tool when we are dealing with internal groups such as Prajna students or VT members so that we can follow up.
- One person was so impressed that she wanted us to come to their earth day program on May 20th to present the information at their school.
For the presentation click
here.
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