Earth Day Fair featured demos, crafts, music and more

By Judie Holcomb-Pack Mother Nature cooperated with Mother Earth last Saturday to offer a beautiful spring day that brought out more than 8,500 visitors from across the region to celebrate Piedmont Environmental Alliance (PEA) Earth Day 2024, the largest celebration in North Carolina.  Cornelia Barr, PEA development associate, said that “120 vendors were super engaged in educating, entertaining, and leading community action.” She also noted the variety in vendors: “They included conservation nonprofits like Sierra Club and Gateway Nature Preserve; corporations like Vulcan Materials and Siemens Energy that incorporate sustainability in their business models; the NC Clean Energy Technology Center and solar energy companies; electric vehicle manufacturers like Volvo trucks and Matthews Specialty Vehicles, as well as dealers that sell electric vehicles and install home charging stations; and city and county government agencies – WS/FC Stormwater, Triad Air Awareness, and others – that work to ensure that our air and drinking water are clean and safe. As always, we are grateful to the City of Winston-Salem, a major sponsor of the event.” PEA also held a student environmental art contest with work that showed how much students – from kindergarten to high school – care about our planet. In the...