Going Green EXPO Carbon Offset Tree Planting

• What: Carbon Off-Set Tree Planting
• When: Thursday – April 10, 11:00pm to 12:30pm
• Where: City of Tampa Sulpher Springs/Tower Park
• Attendees: This event is free and open to the public, bring a shovel (we are also lookig for more tree donations - must be Florida-friendly Oak or Long Leaf Pine)
  

Student Volunteers from USF will be planting trees to as a carbon-offset to the Going Green Tampa Bay Expo. City of Tampa Parks Department will oversee tree planting and maintain the trees in the park. Trees are courtesy of Sunrise Landscape and TreeMart and USF Botanical Gardens. The Tower Park was chosen to continue the memorial to Alan Wright who was a river planner with Hillsborough County’s City-County Planning Commission and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the park.

For more information visit www.GoingGreenTampaBay.com

The Expo is at the SunDome on Saturday April 12th from 10am to 4pm and features
workshops, discussions, films, displays and vendors, as well as special exhibits and
activities for children. Nationally recognized speaker Samuel Nutter from the Massachusetts
Technology Collaborative will present “Communities for High Performance Schools”;
workshops range from making Bio-Fuels with Mike Lokey, to Compost Happens and Making
Rain Barrels with IFAS. Several vehicles will be on display including Lokey’s bio-fuel race
car, HartLines hybrid bus and perhaps even a Hi-Performance Electric Vehicle which has
just been announced by a top EV expert. Green Building Techniques will be presented;
exhibitors include eco-friendly vendors, the Clean Energy Research Center, CUTR and
other USF departments featuring information on Green Jobs, Engineering Without Borders
along with Hillsborough County departments who will have conservation ideas for your
home & yard.