Earth Day is All Month Long at Beaver Creek!

By: Alex Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Writing Intern

Here at Beaver Creek Reserve, we love to celebrate everything nature! So much so, that celebrating Earth Day on a single day is hardly enough, which is why we celebrate Earth Day all month long! During this time we host weekly events with the chance to win prizes, and introduce eco-friendly programs to inform the community on various different topics ranging from bird and plant identification to making paint out of natural materials. 

Earth Day is all about bringing attention to our environment and finding new ways to support our planet. Ever since 1970 when Wisconsin governor Gaylord Nelson founded the holiday, Earth Day has been bringing people together in order to concentrate on improving the quality of the environment. One simple thing anyone can do to help the environment is taking sustainable actions. Sustainable actions are anything that prevents more waste and pollution from entering our environment. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, sustainability is “everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.” 

Some easy tasks you can do to be more sustainable:

• Reduce waste by using more eco-friendly products, such as metal straws, cloth napkins, and reusable shopping bags
• Save Energy by turning off and unplugging extra appliances
• Reduce pollution by carpooling with friends and coworkers 
• Recycle, by recycling you reduce the amount of garbage in landfills

These practices are an easy, good start to becoming more sustainable and, in turn, helping improve our environment not just during Earth Month, but all year. If you want to learn more about Earth Day, you can visit Earth Day’s website, which provides a more extensive history of the holiday. Visit our event calendar to see what events we are hosting for Earth Day this month. 

A great way to learn about what eco-friendly vendors are in the Chippewa Valley is our
 Earth Week Open House event co-hosted by Beaver Creek, JONAH Environmental Task Force, the Eau Claire County Office of Recycling and Sustainability and the Brewing Projekt.