Name: Street Tree Care: With LES Ecology Center
Start: 2024-09-13T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-13T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Lower Eastside Girls Club

Street Tree Care: With LES Ecology Center

ABOUT THE LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTERThe Lower East Side Ecology Center (Ecology Center) has been pioneering community-based models in urban sustainability since 1987. We provide unique e-waste and composting services, environmental stewardship opportunities, and educational programming to all New Yorkers who want to learn about environmental issues and take responsibility for creating solutions through action. Learn more at www.lesecologycenter.org

LES Ecology Center

Volunteer to care for New York City street trees by applying compost!  Meet in front of the LES Girls Club!

Lower Eastside Girls Club

The Lower East Side Ecology Center is working with the Lower Eastside Girls Club to host Community Care: Stewarding Your Neighborhood, a 2-month exhibition featuring art on the theme of environmental stewardship to inspire New Yorkers to play a role in caring for their local environment.Environmental stewardship refers to the work of individuals and communities to care for and support their local environment. The Lower East Side has a rich history of neighbors caring for and improving their landscape through the nurturing of community gardens, transforming vacant lots into botanical wonderlands, creating vibrant pockets in street tree pits, and so much more. By nurturing our local environmental spaces there is not only an enrichment of biodiversity and wildlife, but a cultivation of health and well-being for our human neighbors too. To learn more, and register for the opening reception on September 9th, visit our <a href="https://lesecologycenter.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f25bac871eefa629e4ba5837&amp;id=98c5f7c72b&amp;e=a5f845824e" title="https://lesecologycenter.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5f25bac871eefa629e4ba5837&amp;id=98c5f7c72b&amp;e=a5f845824e" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website.</a>Volunteer to care for New York City street tree beds by applying locally produced compost! We will be meeting at the Lower East Side Girls Club!WHAT TO EXPECT...Volunteers will help remove weeds and litter as well as apply compost - made from NYC food scraps - to street tree beds. Kneeling, squatting, or lifting might be among the physical activities.WHAT TO WEAR...Please wear closed-toed shoes and clothes you don't mind getting dirty. Gloves, tools and materials will be provided.WHAT TO BRING...Water bottle and small snack if desired.WHY ARE WE DOING THIS...Street tree care events serve to both create awareness about NYC's urban ecology and educate residents on the multitude of benefits healthy trees provide our neighborhoods. The idea is for the food scraps to be repurposed and redistributed back to the community as compost through greening projects. Street tree care events are one of many ways we accomplish this mission and your participation helps to further this cause.Adopt a Tree in District 1 If you have an hour to spare every couple of months, why not spend it helping our street trees survive? Use our<a href="https://nyc.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=840e0541a3a78a5a18a5036b5&amp;id=b12d797216&amp;e=81c5907f89" title="https://nyc.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=840e0541a3a78a5a18a5036b5&amp;id=b12d797216&amp;e=81c5907f89" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> newly launched tree map</a> to select a street tree you'd like to adopt. You'll then receive an email with instructions on how to care for the tree, and invitations to volunteer events. It's as simple as it sounds - help pick up litter, remove weeds, turn over soil, and add new compost provided by LES Ecology. We encourage everyone - neighbors, small businesses, teachers and students - to join this local campaign to help our neighborhoods thrive! <a href="https://nyc.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=840e0541a3a78a5a18a5036b5&amp;id=f422f9e000&amp;e=81c5907f89" title="https://nyc.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=840e0541a3a78a5a18a5036b5&amp;id=f422f9e000&amp;e=81c5907f89" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adopt a tree!</a>

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