Earth Day is here!
Welcome to Day 13 of my Counting Down to Earth Day 2013 challenge.
Today’s Tip: CELEBRATE THE EARTH TODAY
You might start with Google’s interactive Earth Day doodle. This year Google published a “sightseeing checklist” so you don’t miss any of the doodle’s features. Once you are done controlling the weather and the seasons, be sure to click on the magnifying glass. Doing this will take you to the latest news for Earth Day 2013.
There are some fun things,
like this celebration of “Nature’s Engineers,” also from Google.
And some beautiful things.
Unfortunately, all the news is not good.
The focus piece in today’s Christian Science Monitor reminds us that “planetary carbon dioxide concentrations are the highest they’ve been in the past 800,000 years.” On the plus side, this piece also points out how much progress has been made since the first Earth Day in 1970, the year Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught fire.
Today is the last day to comment
on the KXL Tar Sands Pipeline Project.
Natural Resources Defense Council president Frances Beinecke has a special Earth Day message on the subject. If you are inspired to take action, you can send a comment to President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry here.
Don’t spend all of Earth Day on the computer.
Get outside if you can.
Perhaps it’s is a good day for a picnic…
Or at least for a walk or bike ride…
And for noticing the beauty all around you — the tiny spring flowers, the sweet bird songs, and the lush green colors bursting forth all over…
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| Tiny, vibrant “windflowers” come up each year in my backyard. |
The Nature Conservancy has prepared a great Nature Treasure Hunt activity sheet for kids of all ages.
When you are back inside, take a moment to reflect on how fragile our planet is, and on how much work there is to do to if we are to preserve it for future generations.
Make a promise to love your mother (Earth) today and every day.
The Earth Day Network site has many suggestions for ways to make a difference. You might want to add your image to their Face of Climate Change Photo Mosaic.
Every day is Earth Day. Pass it on.
Thanks for joining me on my countdown to Earth Day. I hope you will visit often as I continue on my “road to greenness.”
Together we can make a difference. Yes, we can!
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