Ecology Action Center moves Earth Day activities online

Posted on April 22, 2020
The Ecology Action Center located at 202 West College Avenue in Normal. (Facebook/Ecology Action Center)

 

By Neil Doyle

NORMAL – The Ecology Action Center in Normal is still celebrating Earth Day during the coronavirus pandemic.

While it may not be a typical celebration, the organization has a full day of online events.  Those can be found here.

Ecology Action Center executive director Michael Brown said one way to celebrate, borrow a trash grabber and bag to help keep the environment clean.

“We know getting outside and taking a walk is a legitimate activity under the governor’s stay-at-home order,” Brown said.  “We are telling people while you are out and about taking a walk, why not help clean up the environment.”

Brown said the trash grabbers and bags are outside the center located at 202 West College Avenue.

The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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