Doing a little bit of research what the weather's gonna be doing that day.

Are we gonna be in a red flag day?

Are we gonna be having a high heat advisory?

Is it gonna be raining?

All these things are gonna affect your ability to be able to stay safe and have a good time while you're hiking on the trails.

It's my passion.

I love being outdoors.

I love the fresh air.

I love the nature.

Um, I love breaking the sweat and getting the exercise.

Getting away from the city and kind of in a quiet place.

I feel more centered.

It's a stress release.

Just gives you the space for yourself and for your brain to have a race from all the things that are going on in the world and to just look up and see, you know, the trees and the view.

So we're here at Pan Pacific Park in Council District 5, celebrating Earth Day with LA Sanitation and many of our city and community partners.

Earth Day is a time where we come together as a community, but also as a city as a sanitation and the Department of Public Work to help educate the public about the innovative approaches and the resources that are available to sustainability, composting, recycling, and so much more.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Earth Day LA.

We are big fans of protecting the environment, reducing plastic waste, and making it easier for people to live a sustainable life.

We're very excited here to invite the community to come and learn about all of the work that sanitation does, our wastewater treatment, our stormwater activities, our solid resources and recycling.

These are major programs that we do to help protect the environment.

We even have a bike repair clinic.

We even have a toy swamp booth as well.

We're giving away trees, we're teaching kids and families how to recycle and compost, and there's so much more that we're teaching the public and also promoting our application as well, Sword LA, where it teaches people how to throw away your garbage and your trash.

And then we're gonna flag you in our hands.

So today I'm looking forward to all the kid activities, the happy children out here learning about how to be zero waste and their households because kids are so good at teaching their parents, and that is such an important factor for the future and for our city and how our neighborhoods look.

I think um keys are important because uh you they helped us eat and and breathe better.

When you come to this event here at the City for Earth Day, we're gonna help you get free trees and learn how to use the mulch, and you can go home and this is a family environment.

It's a great day.

It feels good out here.

You're helping the environment to reduce for use and recycle.

The theme of our event is planet versus plastics.

We're really trying to outreach to the community and let them know that things need to be done to reduce the plastics that are produced.

We need to recycle the plastics that are in the everyday commodities that we use.

This is an annual event.

So this means, in addition to today, next year, and the following years after, for the subsequent Earth Days, we would love to have everybody continue to participate, to bring your friends, just to learn about individual work that they can do to make a contribution.

It's good to help the earth.

Through its historic telescopes, including the iconic Zeiss refractor, visitors can peer into the night sky, tracing planets, star clusters, and distant galaxies.

And inside immersive exhibits and the Samuel Ocean Planetarium transform complex scientific ideas into vivid, unforgettable experiences, making the vastness of space feel personal and immediate.

While the observatory offers vistas of Los Angeles, the city itself cultivates a vast array of cultural, athletic, and professional milestones that honor the diverse talents of all Angelinos.

LA remains dedicated to inclusivity, from supporting city interns taking their first steps to embracing the vibrant colors of the Spring Holy Festival.

The city even offers specialized soccer clinics to ensure our blind and visually impaired residents are fully engaged in LA's vibrant rhythms.

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And it's just amazing to see all like how happy and hyper the kids are to play and get that energy out.

And seeing how they can actually play alongside people who are older than them, younger than them, and basically collaborate and connect with other people whom they might not otherwise be able to connect with.

Now we're gonna do side shuffles, side shuffle.

It's for anyone who wants to play soccer in an inclusive way, because if you hear this, the ball, this has rattle in it so you can hear where the ball is at all times.

And that makes it so that you can pass and dribble and shoot just like anyone else at any time.

And that purpose is to empower everyone.

When I lost my sight, I thought that I wouldn't be able to play sports like anyone else, or I wouldn't be able to have fun with my friends or do any activities.

And so I'm out here showing everyone that it's 100% not the case.

But when I started learning about adaptive sports, that's when I was like, wait a minute, I can play this sports like my friends.

So when my friends talk about soccer or basketball or archery or all these other sports or golf, I can connect with my sighted peers and non-disabled peers as well and understand what they're talking about and build connections that I otherwise wouldn't.

Because without these sports, the kids just gonna be staying inside, not really doing much, and not being able to be active.

But with these sports, it gives the youth a chance to be able to connect with fellow youth their age, whether they're disabled or not disabled, and give them a chance to be active and participate in things that they otherwise might feel like they couldn't.

Today we're celebrating the holy earth bloom music and dance celebration here in Lanark Park.

It's a vibrant celebration of the beginning of spring, and it celebrates Holy, which is an Indian American festival uh that welcomes the arrival of spring.

Los Angeles is a melting pot, and we know that the city is what it is because of the contributions of all the communities and cultures, and uh I think every future generation needs to know about the art and culture that makes the city so special.

It's our responsibility to pass on our culture, you know, and the best way to pass on our culture is through music and dance.

So, what's unique about us today, the holy earth wound festival is it's not just music and dance, it's not just culture and community, it's really about sustainability and regenerative practices, and so the whole idea behind today is spending time with each other, but also spending time with the earth and remembering that we are part of nature.

We are nature, it's not some place that we go to, it is some place that is inside of us.