ICIE's Earth Day Art Contest to honor award winners Thursday

ICIE's 2012 Idaho Earth Day encouraged students to examine how the many opportunities we have within our urban environment to interact with nature.  On Thursday, the winners for 2012 will be announced at a special ceremony at the Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, at the end of the 8th Street extension in Boise

Through this project, junior high and high school students learned that nature is not limited to places we visit outside our cities and towns.  People in cities surround themselves with parks, trees and gardens.  Cities develop and maintain parks, walking paths, street trees.  Businesses landscape with plants and trees.  Within the urban environment, we have numerous opportunities to interact with nature, students were challenged to represent their favorite locations within their neighborhood, city or town where they are surrounded by nature.

The purpose of ICIE's annual art contest is to encourage students to think about environmental issues beyond the rhetoric and express that using art and language.  Winners will receive gift certificates to local art supply shops.

Listen to Elemental Idaho, our new environmental public policy show, Mondays at noon on 89.9 KRBX.  This week we'll feature interviews with art contest winners.