Parents, grandparents children, and other interested community members flocked to the GreeningUSA "Get Your Green On" Spring Festival held at Blodgett School on the Near West Side of Syracuse. Over 350 participants traveled around the Blodgett gymnasium participating in environmentally themed stations, enjoying festive games and crafts, and enjoying dance performances by local dance groups. Participants pedaled to power light bulbs, planted vegetable seeds and learned about a planet friendly diet, wrote letters to the president about green schools, painted a rain barrel, learned about green jobs, played a "dunk your junk" recycling game, played games introducing the concept of sustainability, took a penny poll, talked about bicycling and using a car share program, took a quiz about all that they learned and more.

Upon entry to the festival, participants received a "Get Your Green On Passport" which they took to 10 separate stations each with its own interactive learning activity. Participants that completed their passports were awarded green prizes such as compact fluorescent light bulbs, gardening gloves, vegetable seeds, organic shopping bags, environmentally friendly cleaning supplies, etc.

The Festival is presented in collaboration with OCRRA, Naef Recycling, Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Syracuse City School District and the Amos Project. Funding is provided by the NYS Pollution Prevention Institute through a grant from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.

Wow, what a year this has been for GreeningUSA.

We have had strong showing of support from all of our board representatives and from many of our members at large in order to move forward a very aggressive agenda this past year. Thank you everyone for helping GUSA make the world a little bit Greener and a lot more sustainable...