Youngstown Grey to Green Festival Sept. 13th
YOUNGSTOWN – On Saturday, September 13, Wick Park will be transformed into a “green world” for the first ever “Grey to Green” Festival on Youngstown’s North Side. Over 40 environmentally oriented businesses, community organizations, and local, regional, and state agencies will be participate in the inaugural event which strives to increase awareness of environmental issues, highlighting the grey-to-green concept in the Youngstown 2010 Plan as well as the Wick Park Revitalization effort that is currently underway.
Activities will include workshops, various green displays (energy, food, work, transportation), demonstrations, musical entertainment, food, farmer’s market, and “green” merchandise vendors. The central theme of the festival will emphasize sustainable practices—minimal energy and resource consumption with maximum recycling and waste reduction.
The Grey to Green Festival organizing coalition’s shared belief and vision is that a collaboration of citizens, agencies, organizations and government can mobilize communities to address important issues and solve problems in new ways by moving from problem-driven solutions to vision-driven solutions in a post-industrial era of transition where many areas such as Youngstown struggle to cope with such change.
The Grey to Green Festival organizing and sponsorship coalition includes the office of U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan, The Raymond John Wean Foundation, The Green Team, Youngstown Litter Control, Defend Youngstown, CityScape, ReCreate, Treez Please, Grow Youngstown, First Book Mahoning Valley, the Oakland Center for the Arts, Green Energy TV, Art Youngstown, the Wick Park Revitalization Committee, The City of Youngstown’s Planning (Youngstown 2010) and Park Departments, Youngstown State University’s Environmental Studies Society, faculty and staff from YSU, as well as concerned citizens, block watches, and youth groups.
For further event information, please contact Atty. Deb Weaver at 330.207.0994.
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