Green Mountain Energy Earth Day
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Saturday, April 19 from 12 – 5 pm
The 2025 Green Mountain Energy Earth Day at Discovery Green is all about renewable energy and its power to change the planet for the better. Visitors are invited to learn more about solar, wind, water and other forms of renewable energy with all the fun interactive art and activities Houston has come to expect from Discovery Green. Watch chalk artists create live murals, enjoy musical performances, crafts for the whole family, exhibitors, food and more. Together, we have the power to save our planet. Find your place in the Earth Day community at Discovery Green. It's free to attend and all are welcome.
Green Mountain Energy Earth Day is presented by Discovery Green in partnership with Houston Public Works Waterworks Festival. Community partners include Citizens’ Environmental Coalition and University of Houston, Downtown.
Green Mountain Energy Earth Day programming highlights:
Squonk’s Brouhaha, in partnership with Houston First
This year, event attendees will bring the performance power when Discovery Green presents an immersive outdoor spectacle bursting with rollicking music, dazzling imagery and the thrill of audience participation: Squonk’s Brouhaha.
More than just a concert, these musicians bring to the center of their riotous romp a “Squonkcordion,” an enormous musical instrument the audience gets to play. Squonk creates joyful, boisterous outdoor spectacles by fusing fantastical visual design, playful staging, and high-energy original music. Led by Co-Artistic Directors Jackie Dempsey and Steve O’Hearn, The New York Times called Squonk “ingenious, hallucinatory and hypnotic.”
Squonk’s Brouhaha performance coincides with Green Mountain Energy Earth Day and the First Robotics Competition held that weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Get inspired by the collaboration when the music, art and performance of Discovery Green combine with the youthful curiosity of teens at First Robotics.
Houston Public Works’ Water Works Festival
Each year, Houston Public Works hosts the Water Works Festival to engage and educate the public about the value of water. Emphasis is on topics such as water conservation, the water cycle, local water systems, species habitats, weather, water quality and ecology. Additionally, attendees can learn about the City’s water supply, water purification plants, wastewater treatment systems, conservation efforts, drought plan, stormwater projects and more.
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