On Saturday, April 25, 2009 at The Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, Earth Day was the event of the day! This was a magnificent event that was held in six other parks. In order to make this event happen, there was a partnership between the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), Save the Bay, Audubon Society, California State Parks Foundation, and PG&E. Volunteers of all different ages, helped out cleaning the shoreline and planting wildflowers that are native to the East Bay, and we, Linh Ho, Angelina Huynh, and Amanda Huynh, had a great opportunity to work with Maggie Fleming and be a part of this once-a-year event. As we walked around to interview people, we met all sorts of people. Our task and purpose was to educate people about global warming, Earth Team, and The Green News. There were approximately 200-300 people that attended this wonderful event. The reason that we got inspired to help out the Earth was because we felt that people in society need to be alert when our main objective is to reduce global warming and not increase it.
PG&E
PG&E takes place in the Earth Day event as a sponsor and volunteers helped with restoration and clean up along the shoreline in order to help protect and preserve our beautiful parks. In order to gather the volunteers, news of the event was send to local media. “[Since] PG&E is an environmental leadership and energy provider in most cities, households [there are communication between PG&E and our customers, especially about Earth Day event]” said Barbara Contreras of PG&E Volunteer Program Civic Partnership and Community Initiatives. Personally for Contreras, she states, “Environment is needed” as a motivation for her to join the event.
Earth Day is one of the ways for PG&E to reflect their commitment to environmental leadership and our communities. A healthy environment is necessary for the comfort and safety of their customers, employees, communities, and society. PG&E are taking many actions, as part of their business, to help the environment such as deliver clean electric power, support regulation for greenhouse gases, invest in renewable resources, and support customers through energy-efficiency programs. Using energy more efficiently is a fast and inexpensive way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global change.
East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD)
The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is an organization of beautiful public parks and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa County that joined the Earth Day event while celebrating their 75th anniversary with volunteers helping to clean up and plant native shrubs, such as the stinky monkey flowers that are native, along the shoreline. “[We] are depending on the volunteers as an efficient way to help the community” said Ralph Trujillo of EBRPD Park Supervisor Operations. He also states, “Around your age [17] I worked a park and wanted to do something for the environment” as his motivation in working as a park supervisor for EBRPD. On the other hand, Carol Johnson of EBRPD Community Relations Manager Public Affairs said, “Every day is Earth Day, this event is a great way for people to give back to the community” and Sharon Clay said, “Preserve the land” as their motivations for this specific event.
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