Lincoln Street Art Park garden with recycled materialsSTEVE FURAY PHOTO[/caption] By Steve Furay| Special to the Michigan Citizen Earth Day is a global event, founded in 1970, designed to raise environmental awareness. This year, Detroit Green Living Science celebrated Earth Day with 300 third and fourth grade students during a special educational event held at the Lincoln Street Art Park. Teachers, volunteers and staff of Green Living Science and Recycle Here, a recycling center in Detroit located at 1331 Holden Street, welcomed the students with activities that helped the students use their imaginations to envision how they can make a positive impact on the environment they live in with fun, creative projects. “Green Living Science focuses on the “three Rs” (reduce, reuse, and recycle), so we try to use those throughout the day, from everything from what the kids sat on at lunch through the activities,” said Mary Claire Lamm, education coordinator for Green Living Science. During the day, the students made bird feeders from recycled plastic bottles, planted broccoli in plastic yogurt cups, and tended a garden made from recycled materials, including a plastic bottle greenhouse. “Really anybody can do this. It just takes a matter of working together with your community and building that,” said Lamm. “If you teach them in the classroom and they take it home, they’re the ambassadors.” Green Living Science began in 2008 as an outreach program from Recycle Here, helping to engage the entire city in recycling. They have participated in all-school assemblies with Detroit Public Schools, as well as conducting DPS class lessons. The organization encourages parents and community groups to come to the Lincoln Street Art Park, at 5926 Lincoln Street, to see the ways local artists have transformed junk materials into a unique art display. “The space is always open for people to come by and hang out here,” said Rachel Klegon, executive director of Green Living Science.