VT Seva Dallas organized Earth Day (April 24th) by engaging youngsters and also adopted a street. VT Seva Dallas partnered with the City of Frisco’s “Clean It and Green It“ project as part of Earth Day. VT Seva volunteers have been asked to clean the First street from Main St. to N. County Rd in Frisco.As part of our cleaning efforts, they collected lot of stuff such as tires, foam, plastic, bottles, cans, paper etc...that were handed over to the City of Frisco to appropriately recycle or/and dispose. Youngsters enthusiasm and energy (for making our Earth a better place to live in)/ to restore and care for the places where we live, work, and play; for this and future generations is an inspiration to the community.

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VTSeva, NewJersey celebrated earth day in multiple week ends at Jeeyar Asramam, 222 Dey Road, Cranbury, NJ 08512.
1. Wood collection: Collected all fallen tree branches and moved to a common place. These will used for Sriyagam.
2. Planting: Planted various flower & vegetable plants. And trimmed the plants.
3. Cleaned up the Asramam premises.
Volunteers from both JET & VT Seva participated in the event. Young volunteers from JET Pragna & VT Seva showed a lot interest in the activities.

VT Seva celebrated Earth Day on April 19th – Sunday. VT Seva as an Environmental partner participated in the Cupertino city Earth Day festival. By 9 am, VT Seva youth volunteers set up the booth with tent, table with games, face painting, henna, prizes etc. Banners, informational brochures and fliers were displayed. The VT Seva booth was very popular mostly due to a flash cards game with a quiz on Environment and prizes - gliders, parachutes, balls, whistles etc. Children enjoyed the game and left the booth with a prize in hand and a simple tip on what they can do to protect our environment. Volunteers also promoted the benefits of being a vegetarian and distributed information brochures which had statistics on how 2500 gallons of water could be saved by being a vegetarian twice a month. People were surprised on how a small change in life style could affect the environment in a positive way. VT Seva youth volunteers also did face painting, henna and sold earth friendly jewellery to raise funds for Environment projects. The event was very successful. Environmental coordinators Simran and Moumita along with Devaki, Deepti and her brother, Devi and Sukumar coordinated the event very well. There are plans to recruit more youth volunteers in the near future and involve them in environmental projects.

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VT Seva Washington DC Branch celebrated Earth Day 2010 on 25th April. Youth Volunteers picked up garbage at Herndon Elementary School (in Herndon, Virginia) premises and cleared all the weeds and leaves. All 25 youth volunteers were given a book on Earth Day theme based on their grade level. All of them read one page each from the most popular book "Every Day is Earth Day" by Jane O'Connor. The following three themes were highlighted -
1. Don't Waste Water. Get Clean, but stay green.
2. Always use a tote (shopping bag) rather than plastic bag.
3. Turn off lights and computers not in use.
All kids received a reusable metal container/mug/bottle for drinking water/juice every day to save environment from plastic bottles. They promised to bring it every week to VT Seva DC Chapter activities and drink juice instead of using individually packed juice boxes which create more garbage. A tote/bag has been ordered with VT Seva logo to be printed on it, which will arrive in 2 to 3 weeks after which every student will be given a bag, with a promise that they will use it (instead of plastic bags) and bring it to VT Seva DC chapter activities every week.