{"id":1572,"date":"2011-02-21T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2011-02-26T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T01:22:39","slug":"green-earth-day-brisbane-%e2%80%93-planting-the-seeds-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/green-earth-day-brisbane-%e2%80%93-planting-the-seeds-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Earth Day Brisbane- Planting the Seeds of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>With just a few weeks until Brisbane\u2019s environmental  festival, Green Earth Day takes place, the not for profit environmental  awareness Green Earth Group is preparing to guide others towards planting the  seeds of change needed to ensure that we are protecting our environment for  future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Green Earth Day will take place on Saturday 12 March  at the Albion Peace Centre: 102 McDonald Road, Windsor. This wide ranging  family-friendly festival includes everything you need for a great day out such  as live bands, performers and roving entertainment, green cuisine, speakers and  demonstrations, kids\u2019 zone, video zone, art and fashion displays, plus market  stalls from many local companies including not for profit  organizations.<br \/>\nGreen Earth Day is a free, family orientated,  community event, which aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental,  green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into  the public eye. Green Earth Day is being organized by the not-for-profit  environmental awareness, Green Earth Group who aim to provide education and  encouragement to the community, showing others how to make simple changes to  support the health and integrity of our environment and the world we leave for  generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>President and Founder of Green Earth Group,  Leigh-Chantelle Koch who also organizes and promotes Green Earth Day says, \u201cThe  time has come for everyone to step up and take responsibility for our actions.  With the devastation that Queensland, Australia and other countries are  experiencing, we are being called to action, to work together to create the  changes that our universe is crying out for.\u201d The passion, commitment and  dedication one person has, when combined with other like-minded people is,  according to Leigh-Chantelle, what makes the magic really happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy  goal is to encourage people from all backgrounds to be involved in a positive  way to help our environment,\u201d says Leigh-Chantelle. \u201cPeople see that Green Earth  Group is coming from a sincere and positive place and want to get involved from  the grassroots up in helping us enact the positive changes that are needed in  our society.\u201d \u201cWe have had an overwhelming response from people young and old  who want to be involved,\u201d states Leigh-Chantelle. \u201cEvery single person involved  with Green Earth Day volunteers their time, energies and skills to our yearly  environmental event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green Earth Group information stalls can be found at  some of Brisbane\u2019s markets and will also be participating in the St Patrick\u2019s  Day parade with a recycled, pedal-powered float, created by one of their  volunteers, Justin Ryan. Together with many volunteers from Brisbane and beyond,  the Green Earth Day team are united to form a strong grassroots, community event  where people from all areas of the community are invited to join in with having  fun in the name of green earth education. It\u2019s easy being green and Leigh-Chantelle and her  comrades are here to show you how.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenearthday.net\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">www.greenearthday.net<\/a> for more  information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just a few weeks until Brisbane\u2019s environmental festival, Green Earth Day takes place, the not for profit environmental awareness Green Earth Group is preparing to guide others towards planting the seeds of change needed to ensure that we are protecting our environment for future generations. Green Earth Day will take place on Saturday 12 March at the Albion Peace Centre: 102 McDonald Road, Windsor. This wide ranging family-friendly festival includes everything you need for a great day out such as live bands, performers and roving entertainment, green cuisine, speakers and demonstrations, kids\u2019 zone, video zone, art and fashion displays, plus market stalls from many local companies including not for profit organizations. Green Earth Day is a free, family orientated, community event, which aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye. Green Earth Day is being organized by the not-for-profit environmental awareness, Green Earth Group who aim to provide education and encouragement to the community, showing others how to make simple changes to support the health and integrity of our environment and the world we leave for generations to come. 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