Since AI requires huge data centers and seemingly infinite power to run – and since there’s a wholelot of money to be made in AI – a lot of people have stopped caring what that might do to the environment of the planet (not to mention what the autonomous Skynet-led robots will do to us in the end).
However, not everyone has given up on saving the planet: The City of Greensboro, for instance, is still giving it the old college try.
And even though city leaders can’t stop the overall destruction of the planet, they can help area residents make small local changes in their daily behavior by encouraging actions such as recycling, composting, not spraying gallons of Roundup all over the place, and by finding new uses for things rather than just tossing them in the trash can.
The City’s Office of Sustainability and Resilience along with its department and community partners plan to celebrate Earth Day with a festival from noon to 4 pm, on Saturday, April 25, at Keeley Park.
Visitor parking will be available at the sprayground parking lot at 4110 Keeley Road in McLeansville and the festivities will be near the sprayground parking lot and designated with a marked walking trail.
There will also be an accessible-friendly shuttle that will be operating throughout the event.
Here’s the city’s description of the local Earth Day 2026 celebration: “This free, all-ages event will feature environmental workshops, 50+ community organizations, Eco Bus animal experiences, guided nature walks, kid zone, and a native plant giveaway. Food can be purchased at Taqueria El Azteca & Taco Truck, Scoop Zone, Lucian’s Flame, Jamaica Coast Catering, and The Local & The Lebanese food trucks. Play Earth Day BINGO to win an event t-shirt.”
Throughout the day, workshops will be held. Here’s the schedule:
- 12:30 – 1 pm: Sustainable Insect Pest Management
- 1:15 – 1:45 pm: Beyond the Blue Bin: Your Donation’s Second Chance
- 2 – 2:30 pm: Saving Nature with Your Yard: Homegrown National Parks
- 2:45 – 3:15 pm: The Quick and Dirty on Composting: A Beginner’s Guide
- 3:30 – 4 pm: Green Spring Cleaning: Make a DIY Eco-Friendly Cleaning Solution
The City’s Earth Day is being sponsored by PPG, NEEF, Duke Energy, Granville Homes, SELS, Sierra Club Foundation, and T Gilbert Pearson Audubon Society. Those interested can find a full list of exhibitors and other information at www.greensboro-nc.gov/earthday. (Though some people have had trouble getting that page to load in recent days).
what are these day titles? homegrown national park??? again with the needless fluff. we get it nature looks pretty or whatever but i dont need some dang fancy title. what amounta extra people is that going to attract to these events stastistiscalsally speaking? this just tells me that at most 3 people will be attending. the city of greensboro is desperate with these lame titles
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Panglossian, eh?
Bloody Hell, even I had to look that one up.
Good one Scott!
Me too. People have called me this several times previously, but now after reading the definition, I am saddened.
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Oh, weren’t you once labelled a Pollyanna in these columns? Forgive me, but your upbeat, unerringly positive take on everything might have been commendable, but it did lead to your moniker.
But hey, we both learned a new word today!
Yes I was. I hadn’t heard of that term either. But now I have a new movie to watch next weekend with my grandkiddos! Some have also said I live up to my middle name.
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I’m glad you’re felicitous. Enjoy your grandkids!
I just became a grandfather myself. I suppose that I can no longer deny being old….
Congratulations! That’s how I felt too. You learn to embrace it.
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Thanks. I also recently became a sexagenarian – but I was dismayed to learn that it’s not as sexy as it sounds….
Oh, the joys of ageing!
Austin,
Congratulations! You will soon find THE advantage to being a grandparent, that being giving them whatever they, fill them full of sugar, then GIVE THEM BACK TO MOM AND DAD.
I have 10 myself, but only a couple are younger children.
Enjoy them Gilbert and Austin. Teach them well
Look up SNOLLYGOSTER.
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An unprincipled scheming politician. Thanks!
D’accord.
Austin,
You missed the next entry…’see Skip Alston’
It’s very like “Pangolin”, but different.
The Fiefdom of Greensboro has an ‘Office of Sustainability and Resilience’? Let me guess…the Director/Overseer/Head Nug gets a 6 figure salary and has at least 50 personnel that get upper 5 figure salaries.
Greensboro, you asked for it, you got it.
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Right on, Alan. It’s amusing when a small municipality creates an office like this, to address “Climate Change”.
As if planet Earth could conceivably be affected by the predilections of Greensboro City Council !
It’s obviously absurd – but it does illustrate the real reason for all Public Sector activities: – to create “Pretend Jobs” (Margaret Thatcher) for economic parasites who become reliable Democratic voters.
All government entities exist to serve their own needs. We are just the pretext for it all.
Somebody give me an AMEN!
I remember the day when the City Manager was talented enough to get by with only one assistant manager.
The same with the schools; we had one principal, the assistant principal doubled as football coach and we had a school secretary that kept track of attendance, correspondence and answered the phone.
Now there are even associations for the myriads of assistants.
We need fewer Directors of Sustainability, people monitoring the trash for unwashed cans and the like and more people keeping the streets repaired, potholes and broken curbing fixed and leaves picked up before they clog the storm drains.
amen
when i run 4 president, austin, my platform will > every voters sex life & will GUARANTEE my election !
when i run 4 president, austin, my platform will > every voters sex life & will GUARANTEE my election !
I will vote for you…..twice.
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Election..? Or erection ?
Good luck with that, either way, Markl.
you got my vote! even without your campaign promise
plumbers r putting on ‘turd day 2026’ something real
The Earth Day phenomenon was a coming out party of sorts for leftist democrats back in the day. Since then, it has been one ’cause’ after another to promote socialist ideology and get leftists into power. Not surprised that Guilford county still fosters these virtue signaling, taxpayer funded smoke shows.
it’s ‘b wary of larry’ day so . . .
How is Earth Day socialist? Last I checked, Earth Day had nothing to say about State ownership of production and equality programs. Is that just a scary word you tagged on to something you don’t like to make it sounds mean and scary to other conservatives?