It’s Easy To Be Green, Week 9

This is another installment of Lichterman Nature Center's twelve week It's Easy To Be Green program that MLGW employees are participating in.

Time to introduce your family to nature! Spending time outdoors helps you and your family feel connected to nature, and to realize that the Earth is a living organism. Explore nature as much as possible. It’s fun, invigorating, and healthy. Don’t let nature films of TV be your only experience with the natural world!

Action Items

• Visit a park, zoo, Lichterman Nature Center or similar places to learn about environmental issues first hand.

• Start a nature journal or use Lichterman’s Naturalist Notebook as a model. In this journal you observe nature through seasons and record your findings in words and pictures. Remember to use both sides of the paper.

• Visit Lichterman with your family and check out an International Paper Family Discovery Backpack. Each backpack has 25 activities with binoculars, magnifiers, bug boxes, trowels, filed guides and other tools to help you and your family explore nature.

• Explore nature at night at Lichterman by attending a Family Night Hike. Call for dates and times.

• Give Lichterman Nature Center a helping hand on Saturdays in January and February with Privet Pull. This is a fun way to remove invasive species such as privet, Japanese honeysuckle, and wisteria. These alien plants choke out our native plants.

• Buy a membership to the Pink Palace family of Museums. You will receive free admission for a year to Lichterman Nature Center and to the Pink Palace plus passes to the IMAX Theater and Sharpe Plantarium.

Lichterman Nature Center offers Girl and Boy Scout badge and achievement programs relating to the outdoors and nature. Lichterman also offers Overnight Adventures where your child’s scout troop can sleep over at the Nature Center.

Celebrate Earth Day by attending Earthfest at Lichterman Nature Center with your family on April 19th from 10am-2pm. MLGW will be hosting a booth.