Comments on: WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON EARTH DAY?

By: whaletwin1

whaletwin1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:38:51 +0000

I had a wonderful Earth Day. My husband and I met with a builder to discuss our plans to build our dream “green” home and it went very well. We are very excited to move forward with this project and model the green building techniques that local builders here are only now starting to think about using.
After that I volunteered in my son’s third grade classroom and taught a lesson on the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). To share my passion for the environment with these kids and to see their eagerness to learn was priceless. When they all wanted to keep the various “recycleable” items I had them use to come up with ways to reuse them (like the plastic pouch my daughter’s character underwear came in!), I was surprised and felt like I made a small difference that will hopefully spark a bigger understanding of the importance of their actions and the impact on the environment. Now I am inspired to plan a year long lesson on the environment that I can teach next year.

By: Lokendra Sharma

Lokendra Sharma — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:18:10 +0000

Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970. The goal of the day was to attract public attention to the growing needs for cleaner air and water. Additionally, the need to conserve the earth’s natural resources was emphasized.

Former Senator Gaylord Nelson first proposed the idea for Earth Day in 1969. He came up with the idea while reading about anti-war teach-ins which were occurring on several college campuses in the United States. Nelson’s idea was to have a nationwide teach-in on the environment. His idea became very popular and in 1970, more than 20 million people participated in the first Earth Day.

On this anniversary of Earth Day in we should “increase awareness, responsibility and action toward a clean, health future for all living things.”

By: Lokendra Sharma

Lokendra Sharma — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:06 +0000

Former Senator Gaylord Nelson first proposed the idea for Earth Day in 1969. He came up with the idea while reading about anti-war teach-ins which were occurring on several college campuses in the United States. Nelson\’s idea was to have a nationwide teach-in on the environment. His idea became very popular and in 1970, more than 20 million people participated in the first Earth Day.

On the 25th anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, more than 200 million people worldwide participated in activities designed by the Earth Day Network to \”increase awareness, responsibility and action toward a clean, health future for all living things.\”

we should contribute at our level to make our earth good.