E is for Earth Day--A Billion Acts of Green

I’m old enough to remember when Earth Day was a joke.  It was.  As teachers, many of us said, “Oh, yeah.  Earth Day.  I’d better do something, I guess.”  Not anymore.  Earth Day has a global platform and big teeth.  And it should.  Caring for our planet is no laughing matter.  It is a deadly serious concern.

 Earth Day, founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and respect for life on the plane.  It has come a long way from then with one hundred forty countries around the globe participating this year.  And counting.  Earth Day, very much like Earth Hour, has taken on a life of its own.

 

So what in the world can we do to help?  The smallest thing adds up to a billion acts of green! I’ve pledge to not use plastic bags, to using cold water in the washing machine and to using earth friendly cleaning products.  We’ve changed all light bulbs to save electricity, and they are turned off when leaving a room.  I remind students when doing a book signing that turning off a light helps save a polar bear!

But it’s more than these things, isn’t it?  Helping save our planet is really a state of mind.  It’s being in the flow of good ecology every day, even every minute. And soon, it’s a way of life. 

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Living this state of mind will help save all our lives and the lives of those to come, our children and our grandchildren. What better ongoing gift can we give to anyone than a sustainable, green and whole planet?  Oh, and it’s not, of course, just April 22.  It’s every minute, every day for the rest of our lives.