Thank you for a great Earth Day Festival 2010!

Thanks to all who attended 2010's Nashville Earth Day Festival.

Amid all the devastation caused by the recent flooding, we recall with happiness the Nashville community's enthusiastic participation in this year's Earth Day Festival.

Our final figures from the event show that this year's Earth Day Festival was the best and the biggest that Nashville has ever seen.

The Festival featured 103 exhibitors and 14 food vendors, plus 19 merchants in the new Merchant Village.

For the first time since the Festival began its current run at Centennial Park, the event generated more recyclables (0.25 tons or approximately 500 lbs.) than trash (380 lbs.). The Festival also produced an impressive 210-280 lbs. of composting materials.

A big thanks to all the organizers, vendors, performers, volunteers and especially the attendees - all 20,000 - 25,000 of you - who helped make this event the best Earth Day Festival yet in Nashville.

The continuing growth and success of the Earth Day Festival demonstrates that Nashvillians really do care about the environment and show our city leaders, businesspeople and the community at large that support for environmental issues is stronger than ever here in Middle Tennessee.

Remember that Earth Day may only come once a year, but Nashville has ongoing Earth Day-related events such as neighborhood tree planting scheduled throughout the year. We will soon be adding a newsletter sign-up form to the Nashville Earth Day Festival website.

Meanwhile, show your Earth Day dedication proudly by wearing the official 2010 Nashville Earth Day Festival t-shirt. The shirt sold out at the festival itself, but you can still order the shirts online.