Earth Day is Coming

Earth Day is April 22nd 2008 and I am getting excited!

I am a huge fan of all things enviornmental.... well I guess I should't say that. The truth is that I am a fan of REAL solutions to REAL problems in the world. I think that by doing small things each day we can all contribute to a cleaner healthier enviornmwent.

My personal belief is that our world is our stewardship and part of the inhertance given to us by our father. As such he expects us to "play nice" and keep it as clean and beautiful as when he created it. Additionally, it is just so much nicer to live in cities and communities with more life and trees and are clean rather than full of garbage and grafitti. As such, it really just takes small and simple efforts from everyone to have impact. Plant a tree; switch to energy efficient light bulbs, start recycling your paper and plastics; you can even just stop throwing garbage in the streets and always find an approprate waste receptical. If we do more and more little things each year it will ultimately have a more positive impact.

Earth Day is still a few months away but now is a great time to start thinking about and planning activities that you can do for Earth Day to educate yourself and do more to help keep the world around us a little bit nicer.

If you want to read more about Earth Day and some ideas for Earth Day here are some of my favorite sites:
The Earth Day Network
Enviornmental News Network
The Arbor Day foundation - Arbor Day is April 25th this year
The Story of Stuff - A look at production and consumption in the world

Hope you enjoy!

Planet Earth

If you have not seen it already you need to check out Discovery Channel's Planet Earth. I have been watching it for the past few weeks and it is amazing. I have already set aside the money to get my own DVD and hopefully I will get an HD TV soon so I can see all of the clarity of the images.