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# Earth Day is a weird spectacle
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/earth-day-is-a-weird-spectacle/
- Published: 2008-04-21T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T23:54:56.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Promenade, #archive-import

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My favorite Internet posting of last week was on the LAist Web site which recapped April 12th’s Earth Day festival on the Third Street Promenade. (laist.com/2008/04/14/santa\_monica\_go. php) Be sure to open pictures in the photo gallery. My favorite is a shot of an overflowing (with bottles and cans) Promenade trash can. The caption: “Oddly, there were no recycling receptacles at the Earth Day festival. Hmmm." Only in “too green” Santa Monica.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 21, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042108.pdf?ref=smdp.com)