Limestone University Partnering With Schneider Electric For Earth Day Tree Planting Ceremony On April 19

Limestone University is partnering with Schneider Electric to celebrate Earth Day during a special ceremony that will include a tree-planting on Tuesday, April 19, at 10 a.m.

The front-campus celebration will incorporate a campus-clean up followed by the tree planting ceremony to showcase a commitment to energy efficiency and preserving the environment. As part of the event, Limestone administrators and Schneider Electric representatives will provide remarks on the project’s positive environmental and economic impact. The public is invited to attend.

While the event will take place at Limestone on April 19, Earth Day will be officially celebrated globally on Friday, April 22.

For more than 30 years, Schneider Electric has successfully implemented over 900 energy savings performance contracting projects across the nation, saving its clients more than $3 billion. The project delivery method helps publicly funded entities make capital improvements over longer payback periods and offers many long-term benefits such as improved facility efficiency, occupant comfort, financial management and environmental protection.

“We are proud to partner with Schneider Electric to celebrate Earth Day at our University,” said Limestone Provost Dr. Monica Baloga. “We invite everyone to come out and enjoy our beautiful campus as we plant a tree to show our commitment to energy efficiency and conservation.”

The first Earth Day in 1970 mobilized millions of Americans from all walks of life, giving birth to a broad new movement to protect the planet. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans – 10 percent of the U.S. population at the time – took to streets, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward. The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Earth Day is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event each year.

Since that first Earth Day event, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted, $7 billion has been awarded in Green School Grants, and 36 million people have volunteered for cleanup events.