Happy Earth Day, with a passive-aggressive message: stop and smell the flowers, and then give D.C. statehood.
Ride away from the 5.75 percent.
A map of the city’s open boxes makes it simpler to request a tree be planted there.
NASA at Union Station, camping on the National Mall, and more.
Surrender your environmentally unfriendly ways and rock your face off all at once—Cheap Trick will headline the annual Earth Day rally on the National Mall on Sunday, April 22.
First Lady Michelle Obama had been planning on getting out into the Washington community this afternoon and doing some work on a habitat improvement project led by the Anacostia Watershed Society at Fort Dupont Park in Ward 7.
Friday is Earth Day – and while you may already have plans to go plant a tree, you may want to consider these other (free) food, drink and event options.
A protest by environmental activists is currently blocking traffic along H Street near 14th Street NW. Of course, Earth Day isn’t until April 22, but that’s not stopping those attending the Powershift 2011 conference — during which 10,000 young leaders have come to D.C. “to reclaim our democracy from polluters and lead the way to a clean energy future” — from getting an early start on proceedings.
Sunday’s Earth Day Climate Rally on the National Mall ended up being graced with unexpectedly mild weather — the predicted rain never fully materialized, so unlike in recent years, the show went on mostly uninterrupted (apart from a bit of a sound system snafu in the middle of a set by The Roots). Here’s some of the best images captured by DCist photographers from the rally and concert….
Fresh from DCist’s inbox, At-large D.C. Council member and Council Chair candidate Kwame Brown has sent out his official Earth Day message, and it’s … Twitter! Brown, who has been active on Twitter for a few months now, calls for “people across the world to send out 24,860 tweets, a number equal to circumference of the planet, in honor of Earth Day.” We’re going to assume that’s 24,860 people sending one tweet each, and…
