Earth Car Free Day

Earth Car Free Day is being celebrated this year on Thursday, April 19.

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February 1, 2001, 11:00 AM PST

By Laura Kraft


"This first Earth Car Free Day provides an opportunity for organizations and individual citizens to get directly involved as active participants in a wide range of ways. So, whether you come here as the representative of an international agency, national organization, city, group, or even as a solitary concerned citizen, parent and good neighbor, you are going to find here some interesting and creative things to do and help move us all ahead in the sustainability agenda."

Thanks to Laura Krafft

Tuesday, January 30, 2001 in The Commons

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