Vendors, Sponsors and Volunteers Sought for 2025 Earth Day Festival
Join us in making a lasting impact at Norman's 2025 Earth Day Festival - an event dedicated to sustainability, education, and community engagement! This beloved community event celebrates sustainability, education, and local action, bringing together families, educators, activists, and neighbors who care about our planet. By joining us as a vendor or sponsor, you’ll help create a space where people can learn, connect, and take steps toward a greener future. Whether you’re sharing eco-friendly products, hosting an interactive activity, or supporting local initiatives, your involvement will make a real difference.
Let’s work together to inspire change and celebrate the power of community!
Registration: https://bit.ly/2025earthdayreg
Green Norman Ecobration - March 22 through May 18, 2025
March 22, 2025, 10AM to 11AM - World Water Day - Landscaping Tour at Water Treatment Plant (3000 E. Robinson)
Take a tour of the landscaping updates designed to provide water quality effects and wildlife/pollinator habitat. Learn how to make similar improvements in your landscaping, help us with more plantings, and take a plant home!
Registration: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AFAE28A2F9C07-55064969-vernon#/
March 23, 2025, 1 PM to 3 PM - Great American Cleanup Kickoff Event: Watershed Cleanup and Litter Boom Installation - Eastwood Park (1001 S. Ponca)
Help improve your community’s environment by removing litter and trash and help with the new litter boom device being installed to help capture litter as it flows through the creek. Enjoy a walk through the Eastwood pollinator garden while you are there! (Please wear appropriate clothing – closed-toe shoes, long pants, sleeves, and hat, and don’t forget your water bottle, sunglasses, and sunscreen!)
Registration: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AFAE28A2F9C07-54918403-eastwood#/
April 10 and April 11, 2025, 8 AM to 4 PM, both days – Seventh Annual Artful Inlets Installation – Campus Corner (Area Near Asp and Boyd)
Enjoy your visit to Campus Corner with a stop-by the artwork installations as the artists create their masterpieces on and around infrastructure with messages of environmental awareness to help folks protect their water quality and environment.
April 19, 2025, 9 AM to 11 AM – Garden Work Day and Cleanup – William Morgan Park (1901 Schooner)
Help us improve your community’s environment by helping maintain the existing pollinator gardens by cutting back growth, pulling weeds, spreading mulch and adding plants. Make a difference by removing trash and litter. (Please wear appropriate clothing – closed toe shoes, long pants, sleeves, hat, and don’t forget your water bottle, sunglasses and sunscreen!)
Registration: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AFAE28A2F9C07-54918791-william#/
April 26, 2025, 10 AM to 11 AM and May 4, 2025, 1 PM to 3 PM – Two-part Hugelkultur Workshop – The Well (210 James Garner) and LEAF (333 Bratcher Miner Road) , respectively
Explore the benefits of incorporating Hugelkultur, a centuries-old European gardening practice to create nutrients and maintain moisture in the soil, into our urban and suburban landscapes, including reduced runoff and enhanced plant resilience. This two-part workshop series includes classroom and hands-on learning experiences.
Registration: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AFAE28A2F9C07-54924749-hugelkultur#/
April 27, 2025, Noon to 5 PM – Norman Earth Day Festival – Reaves Park (2501 Jenkins)
Come revel with us at the 25th Annual Norman Earth Day Festival! Enjoy live music, local vendors, engaging activities, and more as we celebrate sustainability, community, and our planet. Join us for a day of fun, learning, and eco-friendly inspiration!
May 3, 2025, 9 AM to Noon - Spring Electronics Waste Collection Event - Reaves Park
Bring your electronics waste (anything with a cord) to be responsibly recycled by our R2v3-certified contractor, United Electronics Recovery. This drive-through event requires participants to remain in their vehicles while event staff remove the items for proper disposal.
May 7, 2025, 11 AM to 1 PM - Drinking Water Week (May 4-10) Taste Test – Development Center Great Hall (225 N. Webster)
Take a blind taste test and learn more about drinking water and its sources.
May 8, 2025, 6 PM to 7 PM – Drinking Water Week (May 4-10) Water Plant Tour – Vernon Campbell Water Treatment Plant (3000 E. Robinson)
Learn about our community water sources and tour the treatment plant. Our award-winning water treatment staff treat and send over 5 billion gallons of water to Norman residents every year!
Registration: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AFAE28A2F9C07-55065308-vernon#/
May 18, 2025, 1 PM to 3 PM – Honeybee Basics Workshop – LEAF (333 Bratcher Miner Road)
Discover the world of honeybees and the fundamentals of beekeeping with Steve Easom, founder of TruBee Removal. His company specializes in safely re-homing bees while also offering beekeeping training, education, and employment opportunities for veterans and first responders. Get a close-up look (from a safe distance) at the active honeybee hives at LEAF, along with a variety of native pollinator hotels and houses designed to support local pollinators.
Registration: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AFAE28A2F9C07-54924850-beeworkshop#/
Resilience and Sustainability Educational Workshops
If you have ideas for future class topics, please send them to us! You can email us at EnvironmentalServices@normanok.gov or call us at 405-292-9731.
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