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SPARKLE: Simple Steps for a Greener, Cleaner Silver Spring

Date and Time

Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 2:00 PM until 3:30 PM

Location

Koiner Farm
737 Easley St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA

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Simple Steps for a Greener, Cleaner Silver Spring with Tanya DeKona "The Green Elf"

Small changes can make a big difference! Join community advocate and sustainability enthusiast Tanya DeKona, “The Green Elf,” for a lively, practical look at simple ways to create a cleaner, greener community.

Tanya will share easy, immediately actionable tips for recycling correctly, reducing food waste, cutting down on plastics, and moving toward zero waste. Leave inspired with practical ideas you can use right away to reduce waste, protect our waterways and oceans, beautify our neighborhoods—and Make Our Community SPARKLE!

About Tanya DeKona, “The Green Elf”

A longtime sustainability and community advocate, Tanya believes environmental change begins with everyday choices. Inspired by the first Earth Day and her father, an early organic gardener and herbalist, she has practiced sustainable living for decades.

Known around Silver Spring and Takoma Park for collecting litter and recyclables on her daily walks, Tanya adopted the name “The Green Elf” to bring a little fun to her environmental efforts
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A member of Toastmasters International, Tanya brings enthusiasm, practical knowledge, and an engaging style to a simple message: small actions, multiplied across a community, can make a big difference.