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Along with being one of the world's leading suppliers
of clean natural gas, Enron is dedicated to earth-friendly
energy sources. For the past several years, Enron has
commemorated Earth Day with environmental and
energy awareness festivals in Houston, Portland, and
throughout California. Nearly 3000 Enron
employees join 220,000 members of our communities
to participate in Enron Earth Day festivities. Special
Earth Day grants, Nature Conservancy and Wildlife
Habitat programs, and a variety of related volunteer
activities complement these events.
In Houston, the third annual 104KRBE /
Enron Earth Day Festival held April 10 enticed
over 31,000 Houstonians to come out to Buffalo
Bayou Park to teach Houston-area families about protecting the
environment, and preserving our natural resources.
This year, Enron awarded five $2000 grants to
support community work projects that exemplified
the mission of Earth Day such as landscaping
enhancements, neighborhood clean-ups, and nature
trail refurbishment. The Enron Discovery Booth
featured natural gas demonstrations, an Azurix water
testing station and a native Texas photo exhibit of
Enron's Wild@work program, an environmental
education program run by volunteers.
Over 30 environmental agencies held educational exhibits
at the event focusing on displays that informed
Houstonians about immediate and long-term environmental
benefits for a "greener", more earth
friendly world. Proceeds from the festival benefited the
Citizen's Environmental Coalition and the City of
Houston Parks and Recreation Department.
Earth Day 2000 will be held April 1
In California, Enron sponsored the second annual
statewide Earth Day event in partnership with the
California
State Parks Foundation. It resulted in 81 environmental
grants totaling $100,000 for one-day environmental projects
around the state. Projects included a beach cleanup and
restoration effort at Huntington State Beach; clean-up,
trail maintenance and native grass planting at Mt. Diablo
State Park; restoration work on impacted land and an
expansion of the community garden at Candlestick
Point State Recreation Area in San Francisco; an
underwater cleanup effort involving scuba divers at
Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County; and planting
a native habitat at Strawberry Creek Watershed in Berkeley.
In Oregon, Enron was one of the leading sponsors
of the Environmental Federation of Oregon's statewide
Earth Day '99. More than 250 workday projects were
conducted throughout the state. About 225 Enron and
Portland General Electric volunteers concentrated their
efforts to cleanup an illegal dumpsite and abandoned
transient camp in Portland Forest Park. They also
removed invasive ivy, bamboo and blackberries, planted
trees, and demolished an unusable play structure in lower
Macleay Park.
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