Qlint, a ceramics student, creates Earth Spirit by blending into vegetable patches on campus during Earth Day activities at LA City College. This was Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Jenny Wong, a student in ceramics, places her sculpture on a pile filled with mulch at the campus community garden on Friday April 22, 2022. This was during Earth Day activities at LA City College.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Qlint, a ceramics student, creates Earth Spirit by blending into vegetable patches on campus during Earth Day activities at LA City College. This was Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Jenny Wong, a student in ceramics, places her sculpture on a pile filled with mulch at the campus community garden on Friday April 22, 2022. This was during Earth Day activities at LA City College.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Qlint, a ceramics student, creates Earth Spirit by blending into vegetable patches on campus during Earth Day activities at LA City College. This was Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Lanna Harris, a biology student, displays informational displays at LA City College’s Earth Day activities on Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Qlint, a ceramics student, creates Earth Spirit by blending into vegetable patches on campus during Earth Day activities at LA City College. This was Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Lanna Harris, a Biology student, holds informational displays at LA City College during Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Lanna Harris, a Biology student, places informational displays at LA City College during Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Lanna Harris, a biology student, displays informational displays at LA City College’s Earth Day activities on Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
LA City College invites students, faculty, and friends to participate in Earth Day activities on Friday, April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Michaela Gorodnicenco, a biology student, displays an informational display at LA City College’s Earth Day activities on Friday April 22, 2022.
(Photo by Axel Koester Contributing Photographer).
Los Angeles City College hosted Friday’s Earth Day event, which focused on sustainability and climate change. The event included a tree planting by Ron Finley, also known as the “Gangsta Gardener,” information on environmental issues and food bites — all made from produce from the campus garden by the college’s dietetic students.
Mary Gallagher, PhD was the college’s president; Lisa Nashua was the executive director of LACC Foundation; Sean Phommasaysy was the LACC biology professor; Gayle Stafsky was LACC Dietetics Program Director.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles co-sponsored the event. Rolando Gomez was the administrator of government, community affairs. Lara Khouri, executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transportation Officer, and Ellen Zaman, Executive Director of External Affairs, were other dignitaries from CHLA.
The first Earth Day was observed on April 2, 1970 as an environmental “teach-in” in the United States. U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin conservationist, is credited with introducing a special day to raise awareness about the seriousness of pollution, and to find legislative as well as personal ways to care for the environment.
