Earth Day is soon!

ilovemyguitar · Post by **ilovemyguitar** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:25 pm

Sunday the 22nd is Earth Day. Is anyone doing anything?

I'll be picking up trash at the beach.

lost_f0n_drive · Post by **lost_f0n_drive** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:58 pm

Earthday is this Sunday, I didn't know that. O_O;

I don't know if I will be doing anything for Earthday this year because I didn't make any plans, but if there are any Earthday programs going on in my area I might participate in one.

ilovemyguitar · Post by **ilovemyguitar** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:19 pm

lost_f0n_drive wrote:but if there are any Earthday programs going on in my area I might participate in one.

http://www.earthday.org/programs/find/searchevent.aspx

phyco126 · Post by **phyco126** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:09 am

ilovemyguitar wrote:Sunday the 22nd is Earth Day. Is anyone doing anything?

I'll be picking up trash at the beach.

And I'll be throwing trash on the beach! Hey, gotta give ilovemuyguitar something to do, right?

j/k

I have no plans, I used to celebrate it as a kid and stuff, now I just don't care.

BattleMedic · Post by **BattleMedic** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:02 am

So they offically found out the birthday of the earth?

phyco126 · Post by **phyco126** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:44 am

Cute. No, Earth Day has been around forever and is a celebration of the Earth and it's natural resources. Also a day to clean up the earth, learn about recycling, and other stuff.

Post by **Sonic#** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:50 am

I thought Earth Day came around in the 1970s. I want to say 1972, but I'm not on my own computer and don't quite have the time to check.

But yeah. Yay Earth! It's what we live on. It's fun to be out in. It keeps us alive, though we abuse it so.

Indignation22 · Post by **Indignation22** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:26 pm

I had intended to do nothing at all... but then I was asked to help remove some dead shrubber from my front lawn.... so I guess that counts.

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:55 am

A US Senator first proposed Earth Day in 1970. The point of the day was to increase awareness about pollution, which was rampant in the 1960s.

Personally I don't know why they didn't just have it on the same day as Arbor Day, which as far as I know was the original environmental day. Arbor Day started in the US in the late 1800s, and in the US, it is celebrated on the last Friday of April. What do you do on Arbor Day? Plant a tree!

Indignation22 · Post by **Indignation22** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:00 pm

Maybe because they felt that the enviromental pollution was a problem pressing enough to promote an additional day.... Because planting trees isn't conducive to lowering pollution.

Post by **Alunissage** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:42 pm

Right, but it could have been repurposed and renamed, I think he means, much as Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday were combined into Presidents' Day.

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:43 pm

Alunissage wrote:Right, but it could have been repurposed and renamed, I think he means, much as Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday were combined into Presidents' Day.

Right, something like that. Earth Day was put so close to Arbor Day; why didn't they just have it on Arbor Day? Arbor Day was already an environmental day, so it makes sense that a day all about planting trees could be expanded to cleaning up trash, etc.

Of course I'm saying all this because I happen to be a big fan of Arbor Day and I don't like how it often gets ignored

LuNaRtIc · Post by **LuNaRtIc** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:28 am

To quote Invader Zim:

"I LOVE EARTH!!!" >0@

Yay. We contributed to soil and decomposition on Earth Day by burying my dog who died Saturday night.

Worst Earth Day EVER.

ilovemyguitar · Post by **ilovemyguitar** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:08 am

LuNaRtIc wrote:Yay. We contributed to soil and decomposition on Earth Day by burying my dog who died Saturday night. Worst Earth Day EVER.

Oh, god. I'm so sorry. *hugs*

phyco126 · Post by **phyco126** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:38 am

LuNaRtIc wrote:To quote Invader Zim:

"I LOVE EARTH!!!" >0@

Yay. We contributed to soil and decomposition on Earth Day by burying my dog who died Saturday night. Worst Earth Day EVER.

Sorry to hear that LuNaRtIc

Post by **GhaleonOne** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:46 am

Yay. We contributed to soil and decomposition on Earth Day by burying my dog who died Saturday night. Crying or Very sad Worst Earth Day EVER.

Ouch, that hurts. =( That's one of the hardest things to do. My dog is getting up there, and I know it's going to happen sooner or later.

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