Earth Day

I just wanted to post a quick reminder. Sunday April 22, is Earth Day. You still have time to make a difference on Capital Hill. It's a little late to visit the Hill and your representative, unless like me you live close and are luckier then me and know yours personally, hey if you do great. Or how about emailing your message to your Representatives and Senators(for the House click here to find and email yours, for the Senate click here to find and email yours). Maybe if on our own we contact them as well as in groups they will start to realize that it is important to us and not just once a year on Earth Day, or in groups but in individual lives also. We have to live here all the time and have to live with the consequences for the rest of ours and our children's lives. Let's stop making this a special day or week thing and put it right up there with should my child wear a jacket to keep warm today. Or next thing we know it may be should my child wear a mask to school today, along with full sunscreen, and anything else we can think of to make them safe. I know the email may take a while to be read but then they might think about it after the day has past for the year.

For the group part you can still sign Earth Day 2007 climate change petition to remind Congress that The Sky Belongs to All of Us. I know that I usually just focus on what I personally can do to change the way resources are used, reused, discarded, and recycled. But remembering that Earth Day has been around now for 37 years, shows that if we let up pressure, it will be sent to the back of the governments list of things to do once we let up pressure. Changes have been made but if you look to why it was because of it having to be made through pressure of the people or the check book.

I wanted to make sure that I did what I could this year as I always seem to get busy doing my spring cleaning and improving personally that I really never get to the next step of promoting to others, then those close, about it. I maybe almost late this year, but I prefer to think of it as just really early for next year. You never know what you can accomplish in that time so I'm going to see what I can do. I always take the renewal of spring as a time to renew and improve my families and I lives, so this year I'm just going to stretch a little more to include the Earth itself.