Happy Earth Day

[CookieS]

Remember to protect our planet :)
Here are some "suggestions" that were given via Yahoo, but I think they're kind of lacking. They're going for the modification of your daily lives, and no so much a special event. The page also includes some great links to reports done by PBS and NOVA.

http://promotions.yahoo.com/earthday04/


If that's not earthy enough for you, check out the campy www.planeteeralert.com, a website Ted Turner forces Cartoon Network to host. I forgive Teddie since it's for a good causes. The power is yours. ;)

[Boy Wonder]

For Earth Day, I just listen to Track 5 on George Carlin's "Jammin in New York".

[True Noir]

I had no idea it was Earth Day... nobody really cares out here in the little state of Indiana:sweat:

[Kurtman]

Yayness! Happy Earth Day,Everyone!

[Avery]

I went outside and laid in the grass all day . . when it wasn't raining. it was comfy. And warm. And someone gave me a sandwich.

[Speedy Boris]

Yup, Google's changed their logo for today. And I did my part for the environment- I didn't drive my car at all today! :anime:

[HumanoidTyphoon]

I went outside and laid in the grass all day . . when it wasn't raining. it was comfy. And warm. And someone gave me a sandwich.Whoa some random person just gave you a sandwich....weird.


I celebrated by cutting down a forest.just kidding =D

[Squall]

Just thought you might enjoy reading an opposing view. Not everyone is celebrating today, it seems! :p

"In a nation founded on the pioneer spirit, they have made "development" an evil word. They inhibit or prohibit the development of Alaskan oil, offshore drilling, nuclear power--and every *other* practical form of energy. Housing, commerce, and jobs are sacrificed to spotted owls and snail darters. Medical research is sacrificed to the "rights" of mice. Logging is sacrificed to the "rights" of trees. No instance of the progress which brought man out of the cave is safe from the onslaught of those "protecting" the environment from man, whom they consider a rapist and despoiler by his very essence.
Nature, they insist, has "intrinsic value," to be revered for its own sake, irrespective of any benefit to man. As a consequence, man is to be prohibited from using nature for his own ends. Since nature supposedly has value and goodness in itself, any human action which changes the environment is necessarily immoral. Of course, environmentalists invoke the doctrine of intrinsic value not against wolves that eat sheep or beavers that gnaw trees; they invoke it only against man, only when *man* wants something.

The ideal world of environmentalists is not twenty-first century Western civilization; it is the Garden of Eden, a world with no human intervention in nature, a world without innovation or change, a world without effort, a world where survival is somehow guaranteed, a world where man has mystically merged with the "environment." Had the environmentalist mentality prevailed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we would have had no Industrial Revolution, a situation environmentalists would cheer--at least those few who might have managed to survive without the life-saving benefits of modern science and technology."

http://www.capmag.com/

[Kury Wagner]

I did nothing! (sorry, Earth) I didn't know what to do. Plus, it was really rainy and cloudy and cold here. :shrug: I'll dream of flowers that don't make me sneeze, though! :anime:

[Mr. Pedro]

I did my part. I hugged a tree.:)

[ToOn~g@l]

I would have walked to college but it takes me a half hour to get there. I was also hoping to wear my new Earth Day shirt I had recieved from my old high schools environmental club but it was freezing out and it rained all day. Luckily I can wear it on Saturday when the high school environmental club and I go out to garden of the gods which is a park with really cool rock formations to fix erosion. But it might not happen because we are expecting a big snowstorm to come our way and dump a foot of snow on us, well according to our phoney weather men, they are rarely right.

[Lucky Bob]

I started a garage band that only uses aerosol cans as instruments.

[William C. Maune]

Yay for Earth Day! I should take my recycling to the recylcling place today.

I'm saving electricity too, but that's mainly because I'm out of lightbulbs. Seriously though, I'm glad we have an Earth Day. There may be extreme views on both sides, but I doubt most would disagree that some protection of the Earth is necessary.

[Avery]

Whoa some random person just gave you a sandwich....weird.
That sort of thing happens at my college when people are feelign good.

It was a GOOD sandwich, too. PBJ. Lots of delicious grape jelly.

[Kury Wagner]

That sort of thing happens at my college when people are feelign good.

It was a GOOD sandwich, too. PBJ. Lots of delicious grape jelly.
Can I visit you? :anime: I want a free sandwich! :D

[Avery]

Can I visit you? :anime: I want a free sandwich! :D
The only thing that's going to be free this weekend is beer. It's the biggest party weekend of the year, starting tonight . . . *hides in her dorm room*

[Squall]

Of all the days in the year, why is Earth Day on Vladimir Lenin's birthday? What's up with that?

:confused:

Is there some political reason for this I don't understand, or is this just a coincidence? Are there any other well known people and/or events that are associated with April 22 which caused this day to become the day chosen for "Earth Day"? Anyone got any ideas?

[Sailor Chibi Otaku]

Not for April 22nd, but I'm still wondering how the 14th of February became the Hallmark holiday we all know as St. Valentine's Day. St. Valentine's was a massacre. Where's the love in THAT!! O_O

I don't remember what I did for Earth Day, aside from watch TV and come on the computer.

[Mr. Pedro]

Not for April 22nd, but I'm still wondering how the 14th of February became the Hallmark holiday we all know as St. Valentine's Day. St. Valentine's was a massacre. Where's the love in THAT!! O_O
Tough love, I suppose.:D

[Fone Bone]

Yay! Earth day! I'll celebrate by keeping my air conditioner off. It's not too warm out anyways.