Erie Times-News
Published June 29, 2007
by Rachel Kaufman

Erie Art Museum’s annual Blues and Jazz Festival is pioneering three environmentally friendly initiatives that could make Erie a cleaner, greener place to live.

The festival, which takes place in Frontier Park the first weekend in August, will sell “green tags” to fund the purchase of new trees, offer a bike corral for safe storage of bicycles and provide recycling bins.

The tags, which will cost $5, will pay for a portion of a new tree in the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park.

Stacy Gildenston, who arranged the partnership between L.E.A.F. and the Blues and Jazz Festival, said the tags are “a way that a person, family, or organization, is able to literally offset … the carbon dioxide they put into the air by flying, driving, having lights on. … It gives us the potential to start teaching people to undo what they do by just living.”

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