2010 Earth Week Fair
Make plans to attend the seventh annual Earth Week Fair at the QCCA Expo Center, 2621 4th Avenue, Rock Island.
 Saturday, April 17
The Earth Week Fair is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is free of charge. The first 500 adults through the door receive a FREE recycled plastic coffee mug (BPA free and Made in the USA)! In addition to interactive booths from various environmental professionals, there will be three Green Lifestyle Workshops for Adults on various environmental topics. All workshop attendees receive green giveaways. Find out more on our Public page.
 There will be lots of hands-on activities for children and many opportunities for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to work toward badge requirments. A special Badge Workshop will be held for Boy Scouts to earn their "Weather" Badge and Jr. Girl Scouts to earn their "Weather Watch" Badge. Read more about the Workshop on the Scout page.
BOOTH ACTIVITIES
Audubon Society: Celebration of urban birds, a Cornell Citizen Science Project, with a bird identification children’s activity.
QC Botanical Center: Various displays directed towards sustainability of plants and pond life. Special activities will include a food web, leaf rubbing, water and life cycles, etc.
City of Moline and Keep Moline Beautiful: Composting activity: sorting waste into compostable or non-compostable using spinning composter. Includes a garden guardian activity planting flowers in a container.
Rock Island County Farm Bureau: Showcasing the power of agriculture including an activity that allows visitors to see how corn can be made into environmentally friendly products (biodegradable corn starch-based packing peanuts).
Waste Commission of Scott County: Recycling and waste reduction activities, information on recycling, landfilling, household hazardous materials and electronic waste. Giving away kid’s sunglasses made of recycled plastic!
iLivehere: myhome ourcommunity®: Color paper grocery bags; make a folder from grocery bags, anti-litter and beautification education. Smokers can pick up a portable ash tray and learn the importance of not littering cigarette butts.
City of Bettendorf Public Works: Distribution of native plant seeds and information on best management practices for homeowners. Choose your favorite native plant and take home starter seeds!
Living Lands & Waters: Activities that focus on trees. Webelos can work on Forester 3, 4, 6 requirements. Girl Scouts can work on Earth Connection Badge requirements 3, 4, 8. Leaf rubbing, tree identification, counting growth rings, native plant identification. Free tree giveaway on Saturday, April 17. 500 Oak Seedlings. First come, first served.
Boy Scouts of America: Education and hands-on activity where youth will sort trash into like categories.
Keep Rock Island Beautiful: Making and distributing newspaper hats. Also a recycling game.
Habitat ReStore: Make a junk sculpture from ReStore’s donated materials.
City of Rock Island: Information and a display on savings of CFL’s vs. incandescent light bulbs and how much power an average kid’s room uses.
City of Davenport: Water table, interactive model of what water picks up once it falls on the ground, pavement and rooftops. Sustainable Community Planning Activity! Help us plan a community that is walk able and lives with rather than tames our natural resources. What’s happening in our Parks. Information and activities on how to enjoy and protect our parks: Invasive plants, People in Motion and Wildflowers.
Nahant Marsh/Eastern Iowa Community College District: An interactive display of wonders of wetlands and sustainable ecology.
Partners of Scott County Watersheds: Sustainable practices needed for fish.
Big Island Soil and Water Preservation Association: Focus on geology, use spy glasses to look at fossils. Friday activity includes learning knots and Saturday includes Webelos/Geology.
City of Silvis: Lasagna Garden with different materials to show the layering process that can be done in an actual garden.
Rock Island County Soil & Water Conservation District: Information on soil and water conservation, with a display of native turtles and soil experiments.
Quad City Natural Area Guardians: Display on prescribed fire for ecological restoration with play area for kids to dress up in fire gear.
Heartland Bat World: Display of native bats!
RC&D SMART Bus: Recycling and hands on alternative energy display.
Allied Waste of Bettendorf: Garbage truck safety and recycled materials.
City Carton Recycling: Hands-on, miniature recycling center demonstration. Learn how your recyclables are sorted at a material recovery facility. Play a matching game to learn what products can be made from recycled materials.
City of East Moline: Storm water pollution prevention. 2 stream tables demonstrating erosion. Free pencils!
Iowa American Water: Learn how you get your drinking water in the Quad Cities!
MetroLink: Learn how MetroLink’s busses run off of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Powered by clean burning John Deere natural gas engines, the compressed natural gas buses result in a 90% reduction in particulate matter emissions and a 50% decrease in nitrogen oxides.
Sierra Club Eagle View Group: Hands-on activity related to water, water quality and other water issues such as plastic bottled water. Kids can go fishing for magnetized plastic fish in a "pond". After reeling in their fish they will answer a water related question corresponding to the color of their fish and then "win" a temporary tattoo or other "prize".
University of Illinois Extension: Social Insects: Bees.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Energy efficiency of using towboats and barges.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Display info about the USFWS and its missions. Will include mussel and water specimens.
Wapsi River Environmental Education Center: Learn about low-impact recreational opportunities including: canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking, wildlife viewing, photography, cross country skiing/snowshoeing, etc.
Iowa DNR Education Trailer: Brand new Education Trailer making its debut at this event! Showcasing energy alternatives, hazardous waste, recycling and more.
The Loop Bus: The new Loop Bus will be on display. Staff will be on-hand to answer questions.
Snake Rehab: Display of native Illinois snakes, including real live snakes.
Shaklee: Get clean products friendly to the environment.
Simply Native Nursery: While shopping for your native plants, don’t forget to sign up for the $25 gift certificate drawing. Not ready to plant yet? Brochures and plant lists will be available for pick up so you may plan your garden in advance. We’ve added several new varieties this season!
Radish magazine: Radish Display and Green Baby Contest.
Greenbottoms.com: Learn about modern cloth diapers and how they're better for the environment!
Buy Fresh Buy Local Quad Cities: Learn the benefits of local food: how it supports local farm families, builds community, supports a clean environment and benefits wildlife.
Norwex: Environmentally responsible cleaning products for sale.
Expressions of Life: Free health screenings and health information. Also, handouts on where in the QCA you can properly dispose of medications to prevent water and soil contamination. We will be auctioning a “clean earth” basket full of earth-friendly cleaning supplies. Kids will be able to fish with magnets to pickup either a fish or a piece of litter from the “river.” They will then learn why littering is harmful to the wildlife of the Mississippi and can take away a treat at the end.
Homeworks Central: Samples of windows, roofing, siding, and gutter protection with offer for free estimates.
Thurgood Marshall Learning Center: Asking for donations for school H2o for life project, bringing clean water to another school in Kenya, Africa. Student event supported by teachers and Thurgood Marshall Learning Center.
City of Bettendorf Recycling Truck: Recycling truck will be on display.
QC Pain and Wellness: Recycling theme, game to check local recycling knowledge, they will also be promoting the national crayon recycling program. Sun chips for adults, crayons for kids for participating in recycling game. There will be free 20 min massages, free x-rays, exams, nutritional and wellness exams, and consultations.
Monkey Joes: Craft activity of "rock ladybugs." Monkey Joe will be present, and employees will read Earth Day related books.
Sponsors
Thank you to all Earth Week Fair 2010 Sponsors! Rock Island County Waste Management Agency, iLivehere: myhome ourcommunity, City of Moline, Keep Moline Beautiful, City Carton Recycling, Quad City Conservation Alliance, Radish magazine, Allied Waste, City of Davenport, Rock Island County Regional Office of Education, Iowa American Water, Scott County Conservation Board, City of Silvis, Keep Rock Island Beautiful and MSA Professional Services, Inc.
Exhibitors
Download 2010 Exhibitor Contract [pdf]
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