#Cleanupfred

The Earth Day event is beginning to shape up.  I was recently awarded the Feelsgood.ca grant of the month so now I have the resources needed to put on a fun event on Earth Day.  I'm hoping to put together  a day of fun which includes a free BBQ, live music and possibly guest speakers.  Tim Horton's has agreed to sponsor the event by providing rubber gloves, garbage bags, tshirts, coffee and donuts.

I'm doing my best to find other Frederictonians who would like to help clean some "zones" that have been laid out on this google map.  I'm also encouraging people to join the #cleanupfred facebook page.  It would be great to start a social media campaign using the hashtag #cleanupfred.

I would love to see people shooting pictures of coffee cups and fast food garbage they find in the streets leading up to the event.  Photos can be tweeted with the hashtag #cleanupfred and #fredericton tags.  Shots of garbage can also be uploaded to the #cleanupfred facebook page.

Special thanks to Feelsgood.ca , Picaroons, and Tim Horton's for helping put this event on.

Let's get this social media campaign off the ground :)

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Earth Day Cleanup in Fredericton!

SO I've been working on organizing an Earth Day cleanup here in Fredericton April 22nd and so far I have 29 people interested.  The idea is to pickup garbage in zones that I have created on this google map.  Each zone will either be a shopping center parking lot, public park or school zone.  Teams will be made up of at least 3 people and I would encourage each team to sign up to clean 2 or 3 zones.  I'm hoping that each team will also have a photographer to document every piece of trash fast food trash.

It would be great to compare the ratio of coffee cup finds to fast food finds to "other" types of trash that we collect.

I will be adding more information about the event here on this blog as well as on the facebook event page.

Stay tuned!