Arizona Clean and Beautiful

Solar Energy, Energy Auditing, Green Living Classes, and Green Science Courses

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Arizona Clean & Beautiful provides residential solar energy, residential energy auditing, and green living classes. Green living classes include topics such as Health & Beauty, Household Cleaners, Green Gardening and Natural Pest Control. In addition, Arizona Clean & Beautiful offers Green Science activities for grades K-8 specifically designed to meet each teacher's educational requirements. For more information, or to schedule a class, please call (602) 697-5895.

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Kids Environmental Calendar Contest

All Arizona students in Grades K-8 are invited to showcase their talent by submitting original artwork. Draw an illustration that shows ways to make Arizona clean and beautiful! Suggested themes include: litter removal, recycling, water conservation, energy conservation, wildlife preservation or other environmental concerns. Mail entries  to Arizona Clean & Beautiful, 2127 South Priest Drive - Suite 406, Tempe, AZ  85282. Name of student, grade, and address must be written on the back of artwork. Winners will not be selected from drawings without contact information provided on the back of artwork. Drawings must be on an 8 ½ X 11” piece of paper and can be done in marker, crayon, watercolor, ink, acrylic, colored pencil, colored pen or tempera paint. Entries must be original concepts. Syndicated characters and computer generated images cannot be used. Twelve pictures will be chosen, one for each month. A thirteenth grand prize winner will be selected for the front cover of the calendar. Each of the twelve winners will receive a $50 award and 25 calendars. The grand prize winner will receive a $100 award and 50 calendars.

University of Arizona Video Contest

Arizona Clean & Beautiful and the Arizona Department of Transportation are "talking trash" on the University of Arizona campus...they have created a partnership project where student contestants submit their version of "Don't Trash Arizona" on videos AND with hundreds of dollars in prize money...they may really clean up! Don't Trash Arizona is a cooperative statewide approach to litter prevention and education on the state freeway system. The goal is to increase awareness of this problem and to find ways to stop it. This semester a pilot project using social media is being introduced on the University of Arizona campus. The Don't Trash Arizona college campus clean-up is a video awards competition that encourages students to create their own videos on how they are cleaning up the campus. Creative students with a camera and an idea can fill out the forms and submit their videos to www.donttrashaz.com. At the same time they can visit the VOTE link on the home page to vote on the videos they feel capture the spirit of "Don't Trash Arizona!" For additional information, students can also visit the UA Office of Student Computing Resources or OSCR at www.oscr.arizona.edu. "Don't Trash Arizona!" is first up under the Spotlight Section.

Sonoran Desert National Monument Restoration

The Arizona Wilderness Coalition and Arizona Clean & Beautiful are looking for volunteers to participate in restoration activities at the Sonoran Desert National Monument. Restoration efforts, which are focused on repairing off-road damage to the Monument. Short training sessions will be offered on the day of the event.

The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse North American desert. The Monument is home to an extensive saguaro cactus forest and contains three Congressionally designated wilderness areas, significant archaeological and historical sites and remnants of several important historical trails.

Volunteers should come prepared. There are no services in the Monument. Vehicles should be in good working order, have a full gas tank, and full-size spare tires. (Cellular phones do not work in many areas of the National Monument.) Please bring shovels, steel rakes, and/or pick axes if you have them available. Hats, gloves, dust masks, long sleeve shirts, and pants are strongly recommended. Volunteers are encouraged to wear sunscreen. First aid kits and trash bags will be available on-site.

Snacks will be provided by the Arizona Wilderness Coalition and Arizona Clean & Beautiful; water will be provided by Coca Cola. Volunteers should bring their own lunches.

Groups and children over 8 are welcome to attend. Children must have a signed parental approval form and be accompanied by an adult. Groups must sign a U.S. Bureau of Land Management Group Volunteer Services Agreement. Either form can be obtained from the Arizona Wilderness Coalition or Arizona Clean & Beautiful.

The restoration event is on the Pipe Line Road, located in the Pipeline Work Block at the northern edge of the Monument. It can be reached from metropolitan Phoenix by heading west on I-10 to exit 112 (Highway 85). Head approximately 22 miles south on 85 to Komatke Road (Gas Pipeline Road). Head east on Komatke for approximately 10 miles to signs indicating Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM) Route 8002. Turn south on 8002 and follow signage to the restoration site and parking.

To reach the Pipeline Work Block from southern Arizona, follow Maricopa Road (Arizona Highway 238) onto the dirt road between the Fire Department and Mobile Elementary School, located in the town of Mobile. In approximately 0.2 mile, veer to the west and cross over a cattle guard onto the two-lane dirt Pipeline Road. Continue on this road along the utility corridor for about 10 miles. Pipeline Projects extend from (SDNM) Route 8002 to Route 8000Q. Look for Route 8002L and turn south. Look for signs for event parking.

An overnight trip to Margies Cove, located in the Monument’s North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness. Roads are not graded and 4-wheel drive is recommended. Car pool information is available at registration. Dinner will be provided for the evening, but volunteers should bring their own camping gear and remaining meals. Campsites are primitive and no services are provided. Hiking and other recreational activities will take place Saturday after the morning restoration event.

Events scheduled are contingent on work completed on the previous events. To register, please visit www.voaz.org or call Arizona Clean & Beautiful at (602) 697-5895, or the Arizona Wilderness Coalition at 602 252-5530.

Holiday Street Faire

Nonprofits or Produce Vendors interested in booths should contact Arizona Clean & Beautiful at (602) 697-5895. Booth spaces are limited to 50 vendors, and only a few are still available, so call soon to schedule your space!

National Public Lands Day

Lake Pleasant Regional Park Clean & Beautiful is hosting the annual park cleanup.

The clean-up is a part of the National Public Lands Day, the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance American's public lands. Volunteers will receive plastic gloves, litter bags, snacks and water. They should wear sturdy shoes, hat, suncreen and bring work gloves for extra protection. This year's cleanup will focus on picking up litter and debris along the roads and shoreline areas. Join us and help protect the park for generations that follow. Call (602) 697-5895 and sign up.

Living Green 101 - Natural Health and Beauty

Participants will learn how to make natural health and beauty products in this 90-minute class utilizing organic and hypoallergenic ingredients. This workshop will involve hands-on demonstrations with participants taking home samples of products they now can make at home. Challenger Space Center is located at 21170 N. 83rd Ave, in Peoria. Instructor: Challenger Space Center STAFF, in cooperation with Arizona Clean and Beautiful. Course Fee is $18. Visit www.peoriaaz.gov to register through the Peoria Parks and Recreation Department.

Living Green 101 - Solar Energy

Participants will learn the advantages of solar energy including the many rebates and other tax incentives available that make this renewable energy option more affordable. Course Fee is $18.

Living Green 101- Natural Cleansers

Participants will learn how to make their very own Earth-friendly household cleansers in the 90-minute workshop hosted by The Challenger Space Center in cooperation with Arizona Clean & Beautiful. This workshop will involve hands-on demonstrations with participants taking home samples of products they now can make at home. Course Fee is $18.

Living Green 101 - Green Gardening

Participants explore how to improve the properties of soils and the many benefits composting brings to the environment such as improving the water-holding capacity of soil, suppressing weed growth and creating a variety of macro and micronutrients and more. In addition, the unique benefits of worm composting will be discussed.  Course Fee is $18.

Roundin' Out the Red Mountain

The state's largest-ever public works project, building nearly 150 miles of new freeways in the Valley -the Red Mountain Freeway, marking a successful 20 year partnership to connect communities.

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