(Hopefully this one goes better then my last post about Earth Hour!).
Tomorrow is Earth Day, a day used to promote awareness about our environment and the impact we have on it.
The company I work for is heavily into Earth Day this year and we have a number of fun events across Western Canada. Since I work in Environment, I have helped coordinate and plan a number of these events and am looking forward to tomorrow (I’m attend the one being held here in Calgary).
Are you doing anything for Earth Day, and also, is it personal or through work (or both)?
I’m breathing air, watering my garden, producing some CO2 for the vegetation, and leaving to live off the land by shooting a turkey in the head. I love Earth and can’t think of anywhere else I’d want to be.
Mine is both personal and through work. I work for an Environmental Law Firm, and I volunteer with my local Sierra Club chapter.
Tomorrow I will be taking the day off work and volunteering to man the booth for Sierra Club at the local jr. college. The Sierra Club group also did a park cleanup last weekend, and put on some other events that I was supposed to participate in, but due to a nasty ear infection I wasn’t able to.
Earlier today, I complained to the cafeteria here about all of the plastic foam containers, plates and cups they use. Had to do it today as I won’t be here tomorow.
Tomorrow’s a telecommute day - one less car on the road.
Why does it have to be “Eco-Hippy bullshit”? I just don’t see how organizing/participating in a park clean up, putting together a drawing contest for kids, and other similar events would be considered Eco-Hippy bullshit.
If you don’t feel like doing anything to participate, that’s fine, but I really don’t understand the hostility.
I don’t get the hostility either. I guess some people don’t care if the side of the highway is covered in garbage, or if people don’t recycle when it’s as easy as putting the blue bin on the corner for cities that have programs. Oh well.
The event we’re doing tomorrow is a clean up of a large park that used to be a quarry and has been rehabilitated into a wetlands and nature preserve. We’re all heading over there for a BBQ event and garbage pick up to clean out all the winter debris.
It’s a lot better then sitting in the office and I get to do my part!
No. I reduce, reuse and recycle every day. I turn off lights I am not using. I don’t over water my lawn. I take shorter showers. I walk places when I can.
I am not going to do more just because it is Earth Day.
Worse, my kids are being harangued at school and aren’t yet old enough for me to explain why we are not getting involved.
Yes, by force, because my Earth Science class meets on Thursdays, so we’ll be in the atrium doing whatever is going on down there. Our big activity will probably be handing out the flyers we created about Global Warming. The professor is having them printed, so we’re celebrating Earth Day by handing out hundreds of useless pieces of paper to people who don’t want them. Seems a little counterproductive.
I will be teaching local kids about natural gas and how it is produced. Mainly so they will stop trying to kill themselves on our locations and second so they won’t think its a great evil when they grow up. It’s part of energy week at the local museum. My company’s day is Thursday every year and it just happens to be Earth day this year. I guess, depending on your point of view I’m doing anti-Earth Day.
When I went to Home Depot this weekend they were passing out free faucet aerators. I put one on my kitchen faucet today and it’s really cool because now it doesn’t spray out everywhere like it did before. Supposedly it’s going to save water, and apparently the planet as well.
That’s the extent of my participation in Earth Day. I don’t know what else there is to do. Maybe I’ll pick that as a no-shower day for me, but really that’s just me being lazy.
Sorta…I did my thing today at a local college, where there was an Earth Day festival. For 5 hours I attended an educational booth. The theme of our booth was to educate the public regarding xerophytic plants (low water use plants), and how they are adapted to the desert environment in which we live…and in which they are native to and adapted to.
Had a great time. Probably talked to a hundred or so folks who ranged from children to pretty savvy adults, so had to customize the discussion to the audience…but nice.
