Earth Day, Topanga style

The 11th Annual Topanga Earth Day Festival returns this weekend, April 17th and 18th, with a full roster of events and activities dedicated to protecting and preserving Mother Earth.

Presented by the Topanga Earth Day Organizing Committee, the 11th annual Topanga Earth Day festival is billed as a 90% waste-free non-profit event to celebrate and promote ecological awareness, cultural respect and of course, music! Attendees will learn about a variety of sustainable and holistic-living solutions through guest speakers, workshops and ecological vendors.

Activities include the annual tradition of local habitat preservation, when volunteers take part in the Topanga creek and berm clean-up, led once again by biologist Rosi Dagit of the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains. Free day passes to all volunteers.

Other demonstrations will meld ecological and spiritual consciousness by featuring solar-powered ovens and thermal solar power showers alongside canvas vision prayer flag painting and sessions promoting social action, green technology, waste diversion, native Chumash healing plants, yoga, permaculture, and more. And then there’s the incredible musical lineup.

Here’s all the location, transportation and shuttle information you’ll need. And by the way, the whole thing benefits these non-profits: Common Peace, Topanga Community House, Trees For The Future and Women’s Earth Alliance.

Posted 4-15-10