Our Theme: “MAKE A SHIFT, GIVE THE EARTH A GIFT, FIND THE JOY!”
Explore more than 20 booths and tables, 9:00am to 1:00pm.
Pick up a PASSPORT at any table, and collect a sticker for your passport at each table you visit.
Win a prize for collecting 5 stickers if you can tell us: What will be YOUR joyful shift?
- Take the plastics Quiz, switch to reusable cotton mesh produce bags, Write a fun postcard to your state rep and senator in support of the Updated Bottle Bill, and learn how to reduce plastic in your life with Beyond Plastics Greater Boston.
- Make Native American items out of recycled materials with Natick Nipmuc Tribe.
- Find the “road less travelled” with Town of Natick’s Trails and Forest Stewardship and the Open Space Advisory Committee.
- Help weave the colors together with Natick is United, to create public art with recycled materials.
- Learn about the harms of vaping and be motivated to never start vaping, quit vaping, or properly dispose of vapes since they are harmful to the environment, offered by Natick 180 and the NATI Club at NHS.
- Learn what “environment justice” means with Natick For Black Lives Matter MetroWest.
- Get a textile recycling bag to fill up at home, and take a trivia challenge about plastics in clothing, courtesy of Fisk United Women in Faith.
- Find out how Eversource is preparing the grid for electrification. What part you can play in achieving Massachusetts’ goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
- Reflect on things in nature using your senses, with folks from The Green Spiral.
- Check out a mini split heat pump system and consider making the switch to keep off the gas with Elephant Energy.
- Sign up for a 15- or 45-minute consultation to learn how heat pumps work, explore solutions specific to your home, as well as incentives, rebates, and financing opportunities to decarbonize your home with MassSave.
- Get free seeds and advice on planting natives, herbs, vegetables, and flowers, from Natick Garden Club.
- What’s Wild in the Water? Take a close-up look at the small creatures with different body parts and behaviors that allow them to live in local freshwater ponds, lakes, and vernal pools. Learn how they help you, and how you can help them, with Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary.