The Louisiana Bucket Brigade has been keeping busy with benzene leaks and bayou blazes, but they’re putting down their clipboards for tomorrow’s eco-friendly festival. Join local nonprofits at tomorrow’s Earth Day Fest and Green Business Expo on Bayou St. John. Dumpstaphunk is headlining, and guests can become better earth keepers in between all the eating, kayaking, and merrymaking.

Two years ago today, the Deepwater Horizon exploded off the Gulf, setting off the Big Oozy. Even before the gusher was capped, the smells and sights of dispersants flying around South Louisiana made everyone on edge about their health. Well, this week in The Nation, Antonia Juhasz writes that those suspicions weren't unfounded. Still, like withthe oil pollution's effect on the ecosystem, the health impacts can't be understood until more research is conducted. Tomorrow at 3 p.m., Juhasz, the author of a Big Oozy book called Black Tide, will talk about the health of the Gulf Coast at Maple Street Book Shop's New Orleans Healing Center location. It's an Earth Day discussion about one of the largest affronts to the environment in recent history.

Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of BP’s big oops moment, the one that is continuing to take an environmental and economic toll on the people of the Gulf Coast region. But this weekend isn’t for BP, it’s for the earth! On Sunday, April 22, New Orleanians will be celebrating Earth Day all day long, from 9am to 7:30pm along the Banks of Bayou St. John near Orleans Ave. and Jeff Davis.

April 17, When Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time (1397), when Syria obtains its Independence from France (1946), when both (the late) Shea Stadium opened and Ford unveiled its Mustang at the NY World’s Fair (1964), when Apollo 13 returned safely to Earth (1970), Thornton Wilder’s birth (1897), and Benjamin Franklin’s death (1790). Well it’s just another Sunday in New Orleans, meaning festivals and free stuff!