Music, speakers encourage sustainability for Earth Day
By Melanie Zilora
Posted: 4/20/08, 11:41 PM EST Section: News
The Kid Fresh and House Party took the stage with two guitars, a bass, a drum set. As he took the microphone, the audience started cheering and shouting, "What's poppin', Kid," getting ready for a good show.
After opening for Nas in Syracuse University's Goldstein Auditorium on Friday night, Kid Fresh, a LeMoyne College alumnus, spent Saturday helping an environmental cause.
The concert, which brought more than 250 students and community members together at the Thornden Park amphitheater Saturday, was part of the larger annual Syracuse Earth Day Festival. It was organized through a joint effort by the Syracuse Peace Council, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE), Syracuse Real Food Co-op and the Onondaga Creek Conservation Council.
Earlier in the day, representatives from the Onondaga Nation, Syracuse Real Food Co-Op and Robin Kimmerer, a professor of environmental and forest biology, spoke to community members at the festival.
"You see this place empty all summer; it's great that it's getting some use," said Justin Mrazik, fifth year industrial interaction and design major.
Other performers at the event included: Jamian Shapiro, a freshman television, radio and film major at SU, Sophistafunk, a band featuring local Funk n' Waffles owner Adam Gold, Eli, a local Syracuse resident who recorded with SU's Marshall Street Records, The Mustached Riders and Luna Ticks.
Hannah Gibbons, a sophomore environmental studies major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a leader for NYPIRG's environmental project, said the music helped NYPIRG achieve its goal.
"We wanted it to be free so that people would be drawn to it," she said. "It shows that there's no cost to be more green."
Gibbons pointed to a table of handouts that gave examples of green behavior, such as unplugging chargers or not using plastic bags. She also emphasized bioregionalism - buying local food - and the myriad of tables staffed by local co-ops proved its ease.
After opening for Nas in Syracuse University's Goldstein Auditorium on Friday night, Kid Fresh, a LeMoyne College alumnus, spent Saturday helping an environmental cause.
The concert, which brought more than 250 students and community members together at the Thornden Park amphitheater Saturday, was part of the larger annual Syracuse Earth Day Festival. It was organized through a joint effort by the Syracuse Peace Council, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE), Syracuse Real Food Co-op and the Onondaga Creek Conservation Council.
Earlier in the day, representatives from the Onondaga Nation, Syracuse Real Food Co-Op and Robin Kimmerer, a professor of environmental and forest biology, spoke to community members at the festival.
"You see this place empty all summer; it's great that it's getting some use," said Justin Mrazik, fifth year industrial interaction and design major.
Other performers at the event included: Jamian Shapiro, a freshman television, radio and film major at SU, Sophistafunk, a band featuring local Funk n' Waffles owner Adam Gold, Eli, a local Syracuse resident who recorded with SU's Marshall Street Records, The Mustached Riders and Luna Ticks.
Hannah Gibbons, a sophomore environmental studies major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a leader for NYPIRG's environmental project, said the music helped NYPIRG achieve its goal.
"We wanted it to be free so that people would be drawn to it," she said. "It shows that there's no cost to be more green."
Gibbons pointed to a table of handouts that gave examples of green behavior, such as unplugging chargers or not using plastic bags. She also emphasized bioregionalism - buying local food - and the myriad of tables staffed by local co-ops proved its ease.
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