Photos: Bay Area festivals and clean-ups celebrate annual Earth Day

Nature lovers throughout the Bay Space took half in trash clean-ups and out of doors festivals Saturday to commemorate Earth Day, the 54th annual international celebration of environmental stewardship.

At Cupertino’s Earth Day & Arbor Day Competition at Library Discipline Park, households loved arts and crafts, mountaineering partitions and a nature-themed cellular library. In the meantime in Berkeley, volunteers with buckets and pick-up sticks clambered alongside the waterfront close to the Shorebird Park Nature Middle. They celebrated with a competition of their very own later within the day with stay music and free boat rides by the shoreline.

Gaylord Nelson, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin, organized the primary Earth Day in 1970 as a nationwide rally to lift consciousness about environmental threats following a devastating oil spill in Santa Barbara. The demonstration helped spur the creation of the Environmental Safety Company later that yr. At the moment, Earth Day is widely known by greater than 140 international locations around the globe.

Nikhil Sabnis, 9, of Cupertino, passes out smoothies made along with his invention, Smoothie Bike, throughout an Earth Day and Arbor Day Competition at Library Park Discipline in Cupertino, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

Austin Pleban, a park ranger with the town of Cupertino, exhibits a Pacific gopher snake to guests on the Earth Day and Arbor Day Competition at Library Park Discipline in Cupertino, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

Austin Pleban, a park ranger with the town of Cupertino, lets folks contact a Pacific gopher snake in the course of the Earth Day and Arbor Day Competition at Library Park Discipline in Cupertino, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

Sally Einstein, 12, left, and pal Norah Silver, 13, each of Berkeley, crew as much as extract a bucket of the mud as dozens of volunteers collected trash alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day cleanup on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group) 

Joe Crenza, of Berkeley, exhibits the trash he has collected alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day cleanup on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group) 

Tracy Chan of Berkeley and dozens of volunteers choose up trash alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day cleanup on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group) 

Dozens of volunteers choose up trash alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day Cleanup! Meet on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group) 

Vegetation are bought in the course of the Earth Day and Arbor Day Competition at Library Park Discipline in Cupertino, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

Sue Moore of the De Anza Lions Membership,offers sunflower seeds to Sasha F., 6, of Cupertino, in the course of the Earth Day and Arbor Day Competition at Library Park Discipline in Cupertino, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

Clarabelle Wang, 15, of Cupertino, does origami with Silicon Valley Youth Motion in the course of the Earth Day and Arbor Day Competition at Library Park Discipline in Cupertino, Calif., Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Space Information Group) 

Dozens of volunteers choose up trash alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day cleanup on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group) 

Anna Fedman, left, and her son Theo Adams, 4, of Berkeley, and dozens of volunteers choose up trash alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day cleanup on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group) 

Yega Shams of Berkeley and dozens of volunteers choose up trash alongside the shoreline in the course of the Earth Day cleanup on the Shorebird Park Nature Middle in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group)