Focus on the environment this week with a neighborhood cleanup as well as\u00a0the celebration of Earth Day. On Saturday, April 25, 2015, come volunteer for\u00a0the Great American Cleanup, sponsored by Keep Lowndes\/Valdosta Beautiful<\/a>, the City of Valdosta<\/a>, and Lowndes County<\/a>. Help clean up our area by contacting Keep Lowndes\/Valdosta Beautiful at 229-671-3698 to participate.<\/p>\n Earth Day\u00a02015 falls on Wednesday,\u00a0April 22, 2015. Many\u00a0government resources<\/a>\u00a0for celebration and education this Earth Day are available from the U.S.\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>. There you’ll find tips for everyday environmental awareness and conservation<\/a>\u00a0in the EPA’s efforts for people to make\u00a0Earth Day, Every Day.<\/p>\n President Obama is visiting the Everglades National Park<\/a> this week to focus on climate change and conservation of natural resources and to invite you\u00a0to submit photos<\/a>\u00a0of places you’d most like to protect.<\/p>\n More opportunities for research and information about Earth Day and the environment are available through the Library of Congress’s Earth Day Resources page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Within the state of Georgia, you’ll find more Earth Day information<\/a> from the Georgia Forestry Commission<\/a>. However you decide to help the environment\u00a0this week, also make it an opportunity to learn more about conserving our natural resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Focus on the environment this week with a neighborhood cleanup as well as\u00a0the celebration of Earth Day. On Saturday, April 25, 2015, come volunteer for\u00a0the Great American Cleanup, sponsored by Keep Lowndes\/Valdosta Beautiful, the City of Valdosta, and Lowndes County. Help clean up our area by contacting Keep Lowndes\/Valdosta Beautiful at 229-671-3698 to participate. Earth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-documents","category-odum-library","category-reference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}