What are you doing for Earth Day This Year?

Question

There are some great suggestions on Yahoo Group's Save the Earth for Us.

Responding to wide spread environmental degradation, United States Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin called for an Environmental Teach-in or Earth Day to be held on April 22, 1970. Over 20 million people participated and it is now observed each year by more than 500 million people and national governments in 175 countries. Senator Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist in the U.S. Senate, took a leading role in organizing the celebration, to demonstrate popular political support for an environmental agenda. He modeled it on the highly effective Vietnam War protests of the time.[3] Senator Nelson selected Denis Hayes (a Harvard student and Stanford graduate) as the National Coordinator of activities. The nationwide event included opposition to the Vietnam War on the agenda. Pete Seeger was a keynote speaker and performer at the event held in Washington DC. Paul Newman and Ali McGraw attended the event held in New York City.[4]

According to Santa Barbara Community Environmental C

Answer 1

Our school is collecting plastic shopping bags to recycle. You would be simply amazed at how many of those bags we use everyday!

Answer 2

It's fine to have special days to bring attention to things but I also agree that every day is the day to look after our environment.
Here in the UK I'm lucky to have a large garden and some land, ( a yard and a small acerage ). Over the years we've planted loads of trees, grow lots of our own fruit & veg., have free range poultry, recycle loads either as our own compost or the local councils paper, tin, glass collection service. We already have max. insulation and low energy bulbs to conserve heat & light.
Its been so dry here the grounds cracking and we're starting to ask for rain, so this morning I puddled some dust and watched as the swallows found it and built their mud nest in our barn, turned the compost heap over several times so the blackbirds & thrushes could get worms for their chicks, and watched the heron stalking our ditches for food.
We recently had our village clean up day when some of walk the area to pick up the trash.
So you see I'll just try and carry on the way we live.
If I could encourage anything, I'd say learn the traditional First Nations People's ( N. American Indians ) philosophy of respecting the world and its resources, and in the commercial sector for the UK have a recyling tax imposed on all the cartons, 'disposable' cans and bottles etc. you buy which you could then reclaim by taking to the dump for recycling yourself or which provides at least some income for poorer folks who I've see gathering it up in Canada.

Answer 3

I am already doing my bit for 7 years now and I have found that I benefit from it too so it is not a total loss or waste of time.

Been recycling even food, using energy saving light bulbs switching everything off when not in use, washing clothes at low temperature, I re-use shopping bags when shopping also picking up litter outside in the street that does not belong to me.... and put it in the bin.

For Mothers Day this year, I planted 50 trees for charity as a gift to my mother also to help with the poor 3rd world countries.

I am willing to do my best to help mother nature.

Answer 4

My children 10 yrs old and 5 yrs old and my niece who is 6 yrs old go for walks along the road we live on. Since we live in a very rural area this is not as dangerous as it may sound and we pick up trash. We save the aluminum cans and sell them donating the money back to Keep America Beautiful. Life is too short to look at litter.

Answer 5

Well, I'm already a carpooling vegan who recycles, so I shall continue to do that. If I can find somewhere to plant a tree (and find a tree to plant) I shall do that, but because my siblings have sports and we have church on Sunday, that might not happen. My family is planning to walk along the trail behind my house and pick up trash, possibly drag out a few shopping carts and bikes from our stream.

Answer 6

I am doing what I always do. I hadn't heard of it!
I recycle loads and the rubbish that I throw out for landfill is less than 20 litres a week.
The recycling bin is always full.
We also walk to school and rarely use the car.
That's enough for us.
I'm one of those controversial people who believes the earth is following it's destiny as mapped out by Mother Nature.
Global warming is a natural phenomena..

Answer 7

Go out and hug the tree in my front garden its huge now, and I have enjoyed it for over 4O years since it was a young sapling, ahhhh!

I already recycle everything I can possibly think of.
I rarely buy anything new, boot sale and charity shops do me well ! Save water - you name it!

I might even plant a tree or two on behalf of each of my children and grandchildren?!

Its a wonderful planet !!!

Answer 8

I'm spending the day helping to promote the use of simple and easy-to-make energy-saving Cooking Baskets (fuel-less cookers) which are based on old-fashioned hay-box technology. These can help to save the environment, reduce carbon emissions, reduce fuel consumption, help reduce poverty and so much more...I use one at home already - It's great and what's more it's so simple to make and use that every home around the world could have one!

Answer 9

The best I can to do what is good for the world I live in by recycling, composting and on earth day I plant a tree. I am a very religious man and I am not a hypocrite like some that claim to be religious. God wants us to be to good to our world and fellow man. It's good to be green.

Answer 10

I intend ignoring "Earth Day", as I believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon in the cycle of climate, and that human activity has only a negligible impact of this.

The reason global warming has become attributable to human activity in the popular psyche, is that big business and governments can make big money from it, and use it as a means to suppress development in 3rd world countries (thereby protecting their own greedy economic interests).

Answer 11

Throwing a Big Green Tree Party!!!