How Metro Atlanta celebrates Earth Day

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How Metro Atlanta celebrates Earth Day

Past Earth Day celebration in Metro Atlanta.

Calev Fairchild, Hayden Fraker, and Ayanna Daughtry help close to 200 other volunteers plant over 500 trees in one hour as part of an Earth Day effort to help shatter the current Guinness Record on Friday, April 22, 2005, at Stout Park in Powder Springs.

Georgia Tech students (from left) Bob Chen, J.P Aragon, Katy Roege and Lisa Pan pose with their Earth Day hero, Captain Planet (middle) at 10th Annual Georgia Tech Earth Day celebration on April 20, 2007.

Atlantans Leigh Bunkins and Tom Duggins campaign for the environment in Hurt Park on Earth Day.

Tom and Paula Welborn paddle in a canoe at the 3rd annual "Down To Earth Day Kids Festival" in Roswell on April 23, 2005.

Lynn Giroux of Marietta, dressed as "Waste Watcher, " a character that teaches children about recycling for the Buckheadesque Parade/Earth Day Festival in Buckhead in 1990.

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam dons a wig for the Earth Jam 95 concert at Stone Mountain Park on April 22, 1995.

Aberleigh Rice climbs out of cardboard boxes called the environmental maze station during the Green Scene: An Earth Day Event at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center in Buford, Ga., April 21, 2007.

Kids play with an Earth Ball on Earth Day in 1984.

Fourth grade students on their recess break at Atkinson Elementary in Newnan plant flowers for a garden as part Earth Day festivities at the school on April 22, 1999.

Jesse Jackson addresses the crowd of about 8,000 that turned out at Woodruff Park to celebrate Earth Day. "Save the Earth. Save the air. Born free. Breathe free. Earth Day. Everyday, " he told the crowd.

Ryan Fussell, left, and Merrill Bernstein, right, identify and classify living organisms from a pond at the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell on April 22, 1997.

Carol Brown stands inside the rain forest that was made by teachers parents and students at McDonough Primary school on April 17, 1995. The rain forest is in celebration of Earth Day.

An Earth Day Event honors Clara Johnson, the first female African-American Forest Supervisor in the region, held at the MLK, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta on April 18, 2001.

Woodstock High School teacher Debbie Goldberg dressed up as 'Mother Nature' for celebrating their 'favorite environmentalist' in her honors biology class celebration of Earth Day on April 20, 2001.

Appalachian reggae musician Ras Alan, left, performs with Glenn Abuwan, right, of Decatur, in an Earth Day celebration at Decatur Square on Saturday, April 17, 2004.

Students look over al the goodies at the 10th Annual Georgia Tech Earth Day celebration on April 20, 2007.

Jabon Hunter shovels some compost into the waiting wheelbarrows at the Outdoor Activity Center during a Hands On Atlanta cleanup associated with Earth Day on April 24, 1999.

Sharmaine Turner shows off her skirt, blouse and hat all made from paper grocery bags in Marietta Middle School science class' trashion show on April 22, 1998.

Joe Lambrix (standing) and his brother Nix of Newnan put their solutions to Earth's problems in a giant kudzu globe at Woodruff Park in 1990.

Leyland Honeysett, left, and Lily Honeysett, right take and interest in the compost pile on Earth Day at the Kangaroo Conservation Center in Dawsonville on April 22, 2007.

Mobius a character designed to promote recycling talks to students at McDonough Primary School on April 17, 1995 during the week long earth day program. Mobius is made of plastic newspaper and other recyclable material.

Jack Whitaker is up to something fishy, creating his own very special fish to take home at the 2007 City of Decatur Earth Day Celebration.

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Calev Fairchild, Hayden Fraker, and Ayanna Daughtry help close to 200 other volunteers plant over 500 trees in one hour as part of an Earth Day effort to help shatter the current Guinness Record on Friday, April 22, 2005, at Stout Park in Powder Springs.

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