SAVE THE DATE
Green Mountain Energy Earth Day at Discovery Green
Our Power, Our Planet ™
Saturday, April 25, 2026
12 – 5 pm
FREE!
This April you can power the Earth Day procession at Discovery Green! Houston’s downtown celebration features community artists and projects including a Magpies and Peacocks fashion show, University of Houston, Downtown art installation, Houston recycled goods artist Gleeson Ryan and a community art project by puppet-maker Dennis McNett of Wolfbat.
Other community partners include Citizens’ Environmental Coalition and Magpies & Peacocks.
Discovery Green visitors are invited to participate in mask-making workshops inspiring them to creatively interpret the theme of Our Power, Our Planet. Using recycled materials, these masks will represent endangered animals, plants, ecosystems, natural elements or symbolic representations of the Earth. During the celebration on April 25, participants will wear their masks to join in on a public procession accompanied by 12-foot-tall puppets as part of Reclamation of the Earth created by Wolfbat.
By coming together to create art together the community becomes the fuel for the procession. We are the power that can protect our planet.
The University of Houston-Downtown will also be featured, with mission-driven artwork by students from the Department of Arts and Communication displayed in an open-air gallery, showcasing creativity inspired by environmental stewardship.
UHD’s Center for Urban Agriculture and Sustainability will provide student volunteers to support zero-waste operations in partnership with CEC / Zero Waste Houston.
Click here for more info about Gleeson Ryan’s Caps for Commitment community mural.
Haz clic aquí para obtener más información sobre el mural comunitario Tapas para el Compromiso de Gleeson Ryan.
Schedule
12 – 12:15 pm: Danza Aztec Macuilxochitl
12:15 – 12:45 pm: Opening Remarks with KPRC2 Meteorologist/ Reporter Daji Aswad and Proclamation by District 1 Council Member Joaquin Martinez.
1 – 1:25 pm: Family Feud with Daniel Milikin of Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy.
1:30 – 1:45 pm: Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Chat: Captain Planet Foundation with Leesa Carter Jones.
1:45 – 2:10 pm: Family Feud with Daniel Milikin of Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy.
2:10 – 2:30 pm: Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Chat: The Galveston Bay Foundation with Suzanne Simpson.
2:30 – 2:45 pm: Family Feud with Daniel Milikin of Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy.
3 – 3:30 pm: Magpies and Peacocks Upcycled Fashion Show
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Wolfbat Procession
4:30 pm: Wolfbat Final Ceremony and Closing Remarks
This will be a zero-waste event.
Please plan on bringing your own refillable water bottles and utensils.
Exhibitors will be asked to ensure waste is minimized by only providing reusable or compostable items
Title Sponsor
Green Mountain Energy
Partners
KIDS ZONE: SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH CREATIVITY
The 2026 Earth Day theme, “Our Power, Our Planet,” calls on our community to use their voices to drive change that betters our earth and our city. This mosaic is a reminder of the power of collective action: that small actions, when done in coordination and with shared purpose, can create large-scale impact.
This mosaic, created by the community over the course of today’s Earth Day celebration, represents thousands of environmental actions that Houstonians are committing to make in the next month.
Each community member who attached a bottle cap to the mosaic made a personal “Eco-mmitment” to a environmental action of their choice. Participants will each take home a “Commitment Card” and receive email reminders over the course of the month to help them succeed.
Fun fact: The color of each bottle cap represents the type of action the community member committed to, which makes the completed mural a graphical representation of our actions!
El tema del Día de la Tierra 2026, “Nuestro poder, nuestro planeta”, hace un llamado a nuestra comunidad para que alce su voz e impulse un cambio que mejore tanto nuestro planeta como nuestra ciudad. Este mosaico sirve como recordatorio del poder de la acción colectiva: que las acciones pequeñas, cuando se realizan de manera coordinada y con un propósito compartido, pueden generar un impacto a gran escala.
Este mosaico, creado por la comunidad a lo largo de la celebración del Día de la Tierra de hoy, representa miles de acciones ambientales que los habitantes de Houston se han comprometido a llevar a cabo durante el próximo mes.
Cada miembro de la comunidad que colocó una tapa de botella en el mosaico asumió un “Eco-mpromiso” personal, eligiendo una acción ambiental de su preferencia. Cada participante se llevará a casa una “Carta de Compromiso” y recibirá recordatorios por correo electrónico a lo largo del mes para ayudarle a cumplir su objetivo.
Dato curioso: el color de cada tapa de botella representa el tipo de acción a la que se comprometió el miembro de la comunidad, ¡lo que convierte al mural terminado en una representación gráfica de nuestras acciones!
