How are you celebrating Earth Day?

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    ~Zen~ California Tripper Administrator

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    Are you doing anything for our planet today?

    Has the thought crossed your mind that our planet needs some love and care?

    I'll be picking up trash wherever I roam today, how about you?
     
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    5 Facts About Earth Day
    1. Earth Day was started by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 to promote environmental policies on a national scale.
    2. Following the first Earth Day, Congress authorized the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
    3. Earth Day also led to the passage of the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts.
    4. In 1990, Earth Day went global and mobilized 141 countries to participate in protecting the environment.
    5. The date April 22nd was chosen for Earth Day to maximize the number of university (and K-12) students that could participate in celebrating the holiday.
     
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    How about thinking a bit of the real environmental problems facing us, and how they are changing society as we know it?
     
    ~Zen~, Apr 22, 2023
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    Nice day in my parts. Nothing special planned. Hope to spend some time outside this afternoon and get my annual lawnmower maintenance done. I like to treat every day like Earth Day and take good care of my little patch of space that’s been in the family for well over 50 years. 21CCDB6B-1E3E-4331-8F01-A45DED7439E5.jpeg
     
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    What a beautiful place @Granite69!

    The whole planet and myself thank you for keeping your garden like a paradise.
     
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    A bit of history for you all, from EarthDay.org )the official website).



    THE IDEA FOR THE FIRST EARTH DAY
    Senator Gaylord Nelson, the junior senator from Wisconsin, had long been concerned about the deteriorating environment in the United States. Then in January 1969, he and many others witnessed the ravages of a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, Senator Nelson wanted to infuse the energy of student anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a teach-in on college campuses to the national media, and persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair. They recruited Denis Hayes, a young activist, to organize the campus teach-ins and they choose April 22, a weekday falling between Spring Break and Final Exams, to maximize the greatest student participation.

    Recognizing its potential to inspire all Americans, Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land and the effort soon broadened to include a wide range of organizations, faith groups, and others. They changed the name to Earth Day, which immediately sparked national media attention, and caught on across the country. Earth Day inspired 20 million Americans — at the time, 10% of the total population of the United States — to take to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment and there were massive coast-to-coast rallies in cities, towns, and communities.
     
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    At the time Walter Cronkite covered the event with a special for CBS News... here is a snippet of the report.
     
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    Ya know, it’s so much better now than it was way back then during my formative years all of those decades ago. In the 70s and early 80s, you could literally see the smog blocking the far horizon and watch black ooze flow where streams were supposed to be … as I recall during a trip to Poland with my Mom and Dad in 1984. It was awful!

    For many years, I became involved with all of those environmental groups from Greenpeace to the Sierra Club and everything in between.

    But today, we fight the invisible “global warming” enemy, which may or may not be caused by man. Incremental rising temperatures that have caused the world to go into panic and take political positions over it. All too often, those political positions are aligned with things that have nothing to do with the Earth!

    But it’s important we stay the course and advocate for things like carbon grounding that may indeed save us all at the end of the day.

    If only the average person could see the benefit of just picking up random trash and sticking it in the right bin, we’d all be so much better off. In a way, in our modern times, Earth Day has become just another fake social media holiday (like National Cheeseburger Day) that is not taken seriously and forgotten about by the time most of us wake up the next morning.

    So sad.
     
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