What does Turning of the Tides have planned for Earth Day?
This year’s overall focus of the annual Earth Day event at the Glacier Visitor Center will be plastic pollution. TTT will give a presentation and show our movie clip “Ocean of Plastic”. This event will be on April 19 (the Saturday before Earth Day) from 11 am to 3 pm. On Earth Day, Tuesday April 22, TTT will show “Baked Alaska”, a documentary by Haines filmmaker Steve Kroschel. This 70-minute film examines many of the environmental challenges facing Alaskans: from road building to oil production to plastic pollution to ionosphere manipulation. This event will be at the Gold Town Nickelodeon on April 22 beginning at 5:30 pm. Admission is free; donations appreciated. How does TTT suggest people in the community help out the environment? Please use cloth or canvas bags. Paper bags are not an option – their production uses 6 times more energy than that of plastic bags and pollutes rivers and oceans. Carry your own reusable drinking bottle, cup and silverware and avoid “free” throwaway coun
