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Oak Cliff Earth Day 2025!

13 April 2025   ||   12noon to 5pm
at Lake Cliff Park
300 E Colorado Blvd
Dallas, TX 75201 

A Celebration of People & Planet

The ball is in motion. Work has begun for Oak Cliff Earth Day 2025.
Mark your calendar for the 13th of April at Lake Cliff Park.

Please join us this April as we celebrate our planet, our neighbors, our community.  There will be entertainment, vendors, plants for sale, city groups offering an abundance of information, food trucks, and so much more. The event is free, but please bring shopping and lunch money, in case you get hungry or see something you would like to purchase from a vendor. Some of the neighborhoods and community groups sell plants as fundraisers. Above all, it’s just a good day to get out and enjoy nature.

We will be contacting past Vendors sometime over the next month or so with additional information. If you do not receive anything and would like more information about becoming a vendor, please contact Lenora Cashmore.

If you’re interested in being a sponsor, please visit our “Be a Sponsor” page by clicking on the “Sponsorship” tab. You can also contact Wendel Withrow. All other questions can be directed to Lybo Buchanan.

Our mission is to educate and bring awareness of the importance on being good stewards of our planet.

We look forward to seeing everyone in 2025 and to another successful year!

Vendor registration will be after the New Year.

Mother Earth needs you!

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Announcing Oak Cliff Earth Day 2024

21 April 2024 @ 12noon to 5pm
at Lake Cliff Park
300 E Colorado Blvd
Dallas, TX 75201

We are excited to bring you Oak Cliff Earth Day 2024. The process has already begun. Please mark your calendar for the 21st of April at Lake Cliff Park. Save the date. This year’s event will  Kick Off a week’s celebration of Nature. On Monday, the 22nd of April, EarthX will begin their “Congress of Conferences’” series. It will run through Friday, (22-26 April.)

“Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water. These negative impacts can affect human behavior and can prompt mass migrations or battles over clean water.”  

—National Geographic

Environmental stewardship is all our responsibility.

Registration will begin after the new year. We will be reaching out to those exhibitors who have participated in the past. If you would like to be an exhibitor, please contact Lenora Casmore at:  ocedvendor@gmail.com.

A better Environment, a better Tomorrow!
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2023—Thank You

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s Oak Cliff Earth Day one of our most successful yet! We appreciate all our volunteers, vendors, staff and all the members of our strong local green community who attended. We couldn’t do it without everyone of you. We look forward to seeing you next year.

We also have photos from 2023 Oak Cliff Earth Day (and previous years) on our photos page.

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Oak Cliff Earth Day 2023

~ A celebration of People and Planet ~

Planning for Oak Cliff Earth Day 2023, our 15th annual event, is underway. We hope everyone has been keeping safe over the last year, and will be ready to celebrate our green spaces, the environment, and the part we play in Mother Nature as we move forward into next year.

The beautiful and historic Lake Cliff Park will once again be the site for our 2023 event, which is made available through the generosity of Dallas Park and Recreation. Every year they go out of their way to assure our event runs as smoothly as possible and is a success. A special thanks to the Friends of Oak Cliff Park volunteers for their tireless efforts year-round in caring for the park in its many beautification projects and making sure that Lake Cliff is spruced up and ready for Oak Cliff Earth Day.

Please mark your calendar with the date & location below.

When: Sunday, April 16, 2023; 12noon to 5pm
Where: Lake Cliff Park, 300 E Colorado, Dallas, TX 75201
         (Corner of Zang & Colorado)

We will post more information on registration and the event as time draws closer. Registration will begin after the new year. This year, our Exhibitor Coordinator will be Lenora Casmore, who has been part of our Earth Day committee since the beginning, in 2007.

Let’s make Oak Cliff Earth Day 2023 one of our best, highlighting the uniqueness and beauty of Oak Cliff, Texas. But we can only do that with your help and support.
May the Earth be with you.

~ Let the mountains talk, the rivers run, and the winds blow. ~
Remember: The Earth is the one thing we all have in common.
Its soil ~ its water ~ and its air
None of which we can live without

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Oak Cliff Earth Day announces Dallas College partnership

Photo by courtesy of Dallas College

Green Source DFW and The Memnosyne Institute are thrilled to announce that Dallas College is expanding its support of Oak Cliff Earth Day as the event’s premier sponsor.

“We are so excited to have this Dallas icon as our lead sponsor for 2022 OCED,” said Wendel Withrow, Green Source DFW director. “Their commitment to sustainability, higher education and environmental justice for all makes Dallas College the perfect partner for this community wide event.”

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Oak Cliff Earth Day 2022

~ A celebration of People and Planet ~

Planning for Oak Cliff Earth Day 2022, our 13th event, is underway. We hope everyone has been keeping safe over the last year and a half, and will be ready to celebrate our green spaces, the environment, and the part we play in Mother Nature as we move forward into next year.

The beautiful and historic Lake Cliff Park will once again be the site for our 2022 event, which is made available through the generosity of Dallas Park and Recreation. Every year they go out of their way to assure our event runs as smoothly as possible and is a success. A special thanks to the Friends of Oak Cliff Park volunteers for their tireless efforts year-round in caring for the park in its many beautification projects and making sure that Lake Cliff is spruced up and ready for Oak Cliff Earth Day.

Please mark your calendar with the date & location below.

When: Sunday, April 3, 2022;  12noon to 5pm

Where: Lake Cliff Park, 300 E Colorado, Dallas, TX  75201
                  (Corner of Zang & Colorado)

We will post more information on registration and the event as time draws closer. Registration will begin after the new year. We have a new person now coordinating the vendors, James Harrington.

Some vendors who paid for the 2020 Oak Cliff Earth Day event, waived their refunds when the event had to cancel due to COVID. They asked instead that the fee be applied for their participation at the next event. Those vendors will receive paid up credit for the 2022 event.

Let’s make Oak Cliff Earth Day 2022 one of our best, highlighting the uniqueness and beauty of Oak Cliff, Texas. But we can only do that with your help and support.

May the Earth be with you.

~ Let the mountains talk, the rivers run, and the winds blow. ~

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It’s Earth Day!

 

The first Earth Day launched 50 years ago on April 22, 1970. While in-person celebrations around the globe were planned for the big golden anniversary, the coronavirus canceled them all, including our own Oak Cliff Earth Day.

To mark this momentous milestone, we’ve moved the celebration online. Check out our special local coverage:

  • Interview with the First Earth Day Organizer
  • How North Texans Marked First Earth Day in 1970 – Anecdotes from greenies and newspaper archives
  • Reflections on Earth Day from Anna Clark and Amy Martin
  • Montopolis performance
  • Reading of “The Giving Tree”
  • 20 Green Tips for Earth Day
  • Texas Green Report
  • Invitation to share selfies and videos
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Event Update

In case you were wondering…

We will be sending out an email later in the week, regarding the coronavirus & the City’s current ban on gatherings. What this means is Oak Cliff Earth Day cannot be held as planned. We hope we can just postpone, but depending on what the City decides on extending the ban, we may not be able to. Various news sources indicate that the country is expected to be shut down a couple of months at least.

Our entire country will need to work together in getting beyond this crisis.
Be safe…and please look for an update from us toward week’s end.

Thank you for your continued support and patience.

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Oak Cliff Earth Day 2020

~ A celebration of People and Planet ~

Welcome to Oak Cliff Earth Day 2020, our 13th event at the beautiful and historic Lake Cliff Park, made available through the generosity of Dallas Park and Recreation. Every year they go out of their way to assure our event runs as smoothly as possible and is a success. A special thanks to the Friends of Oak Cliff Park volunteers for their tireless efforts year round in caring for the park in its many beautification projects.

The committee is already hard at work for the 2020 event. Please mark your calendar with the date & location below.

When: April 19, 2020; 12noon to 5pm
Where: Lake Cliff Park, 300 E Colorado, Dallas, TX 75201
(Corner of Zang & Colorado)

Methods of transportation are:

  • Ride your bicycle (bike racks are located in the park)• Drive (there will be limited parking around the park)
  • Take the streetcar (The nearest Dallas Streetcar stop is at Oakenwald and Zang (in front of the Founders Park parking lot)
  • Take the bus (DART Bus # 21 stops on Colorado near Zang.)

Volunteers with wagons will be available to assist vendors in taking their items to their booth space. Help and the wagons will also be available at close out.

Let’s make Oak Cliff Earth Day 2020 the best in our history, highlighting the uniqueness and beauty of Oak Cliff Texas. But we can only do that with your help and support.

Peace and good will…and may the Earth be with you.

~ Let the mountains talk, the rivers run, and the winds blow. ~