Earth Day in L.A.

Hillary O’Connor and Maya Fuller, both 12, plant at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Hands working together to plant basil at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Maria Guzman, 9, searches for sand crabs in Hermosa Beach as part of an Earth Day field trip.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Mariah Smetana, 10, right, watches as a bat ray is fed during an Earth Day field trip at The SEA Lab in Redondo Beach.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Students from Fourth Street Elementary School in L.A. watch a volunteer pick up a crab from a touch tank at The SEA Lab.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Bass swim by a viewing window at The SEA Lab.  (Christina House / For The Times)

Daisy Gonzalez, 12, kisses a banner that will be sent to Washington requesting that a bill banning lead in lipstick be passed as students at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles celebrate Earth Day.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Eddie Smith rides by a fence bedecked with shoes that children at the Los Angeles Harbor College child development center turned into planters for Earth Day.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

Mariah Moreno waters one of the 100 shoe planters at Los Angeles Harbor College in Wilmington.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

An assistant helps created a mural of the globe, by artist Wyland, atop the Long Beach Arena.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Nature artist Wyland begins painting a three-acre mural of planet Earth atop the Long Beach Arena on Tuesday.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

On the roof ot the Long Beach Arena, above a mural of whales by Wyland, an assistant helps the artist create a mural of the globe.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)