Showing posts with label Earth Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Day. Show all posts

April 22 - Earth Day

 Posted on April 22, 2022

This is an update of my post published on April 22, 2011:



One of the most important holidays on Earth happens today! Join in—cleaning up the environment, recycling and reusing products, buying products made of recycled materials, learning and caring about ecology! Check out last year's post for more...

One part of caring for Mother Earth is growing—and allowing to grow—plants. Plants and trees are super important for lots of reasons - two of them being to prevent soil erosion and to gobble up carbon dioxide in the air to help reduce global warming.
Can you see why plants OTHER THAN grass
are important in preventing erosion?





Another important Earth Day concern is energy, including electrical energy from batteries. So it's fitting that today we celebrate plants AND Plante - because today is the birthday of Gaston Plante, the guy who created the first rechargeable electric battery that was marketed for commercial use.

(Plante was born in 1834, in France.)

Did you know...?

  • Rechargeable batteries have 32 times less impact on the environment than ordinary batteries.

  • Everybody should dispose of batteries safely—and that means taking them to a proper recycling or disposal site, NOT tossing them into the trash!


  • Green batteries are on the horizon—scientists have created special viruses that can generate electrical energy without any toxic materials! (Note that the viruses are completely harmless to humans.)








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April 22 - Earth Day

 Posted on April 22, 2021

This is an update of my post published on April 22, 2010:

Today is the day to consider the environment—EVERYTHING about Mother Earth, from the air and water, to the living plants and animals, to the resources and the microorganisms.

There is a lot to learn about what we already know about the interconnections between these living and nonliving things—and there is certainly a lot more to be discovered, as well!

Everything in an ecosystem is connected to everything else.
Nonliving parts like minerals and sunlight and water are
necessary to every sort of living thing - from enormous
trees to teensy bacteria - and all those living things are
interconnected, too!

There are a lot of things individuals can do to make a difference in either cleaning up the environment or preventing damage to it. We can help manage resources by reducing, reusing, and recycling! We can fight climate change by planting trees, using solar power, and putting pressure on our elected representatives to go green on a big scale!



Here are some websites to help you celebrate the day:

First, the official website. Be sure to notice this long list of tips on how to celebrate the day and/or save the planet.


Teen Vogue has a shorter article with ideas on how to get greener! 

 

Planet Pals has a lot of activities, clip art, and lessons.


You can do huge projects like starting a community garden in the city, or you can do smaller projects like building and installing bee watering stations and bat houses. You can work to make your yard, patio, or balcony a greener place - or maybe even a safe spot for birds or other wildlife, a welcoming place for monarch butterflies or honey bees, or a perfect spot for frogs.

 


 




Did you know...?

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Suggested by Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson, it resulted from efforts by people from both parties and many different walks of life to have a giant “teach-in” about ecology and taking care of the Earth.

The famous recycling symbol is called the mobius loop. The symbol was invented by an architecture student named Gary Dean Anderson. This USC student designed the symbol for a contest that asked people to create a design that would represent paper recycling. The contest was part of that first Earth Day in 1970. Anderson's design won, but even more important, it was adopted for many different uses concerning recycling.


The mobius loops has been drawn in many different colors and many different versions. Some of them appear on this website. (NOTE: These symbols are free for the printing or cut-pasting.)

For more on the history of Earth Day, check out National Geographic Kids.



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April 22 - International Mother Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2020

Gaia is the Greek version of
Mother Earth
There are some people who seem to think that caring about the environment and celebrating Earth Day puts wildlife and open spaces ahead of "more important" things - like money! Earning! Profits! Stock prices!

But of course nothing could be more important than the health of the environment. People can't drink profit and can't breathe stock prices. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if there is nowhere you can live, no reasonably clean water to drink, no reasonably clean air to breathe, no oxygen in the air, no land on which to grow food. 

Prithvi is the Hindu Earth goddess

Also, the health of the environment affects the health of animals, and the health of animals affects human health. 

And human health is important to the economy.

Mother Nature is teaching us this lesson right now - the hard way! COVID-19 is a new disease to humans - a disease that crossed over to us from a non-human animal (probably bats, possibly through a "middle-man" sort of animal such as a pangolin). And this disease is not only infecting many, many people the world over, it is also causing a lot of deaths and a tremendous amount of economic damage.

Houtu is a kind of Mother
Earth in Chinese mythology.
According to the United Nations page on Mother Earth Day, a new infectious disease emerges in human populations about one per every four months. And 75% of these emerging diseases come from non-human animals!

A healthy ecosystem with a lot of different plants and animals actually protects us from these diseases. It's a lot harder for germs to get from organism to organism in a healthy and diverse ecosystem. 

Spider Grandmother is an Earth goddess in
some Native American traditions.
So, protect the economy - jobs, profits, stock prices, etc. - by protecting the Earth!




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