Miscellaneous
Click to Play The Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club displayed their "Green Block" as part of the Ventura Street Fair in Ventura on the 4th of July. The 30th annual street fair is mainly a shopping extraveganza, but the "Green Block" was selling ideas: how to Save the World for Kids, and how to Green the Home. The Ventura City Environmental Department showed kids how to recycle which items and how to win prizes with the correct answers to their quiz. Air Pollution Control District of Ventura had games for kids and prizes, as did the KidsVsGlobalWarming booth run by young teens. The MEChA Club from Oxnard College was requesting help to get rid of toxic waste in their community, and the younger kids painted pictures of what they do to Save The World!For the adults as well as kids, there were prizes and more prizes for answering correctly the questions about how to save money, energy and reduce global warming - at center stage, hosted by 3 teenagers actively participating in the environment: Eric Fernandez, Shannon McComb and Alec Loorz.Ladybugs and wonderful aromas brought many landscape enthusiasts to Nature by Design's booth. Free bike parking was provided for all fair goers. It was a great day for the saving energy, saving money and saving the environment!