Have a VERY Happy Earth Day!

Liza

Liza

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Earth Day! Woo! That passed last month on the 20th according to this website, and they will come back next year on the 20th of March. :) Althought it is officially recognized internationally to be TODAY - April 22nd! This is a good website for the environmental allies. Even has some great articles!

All individuals and institutions have a mutual responsibility to act as Trustees of Earth, seeking the choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, foster peaceful progress, awaken the wonder of life, and realize the best potential for the future of the human adventure.
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"EARTH DAY uses one of humanity’s great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon. EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth’s safety. …EARTH DAY draws on astronomical phenomena in a new way; using the vernal equinox, the time when the Sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length in all parts of theEarth. To this point in the annual calendar, EARTH DAY attaches no local or divisive set of symbols, no statement of the truth or superiority of one way of life over another. But the selection of the March equinox makes planetary observance of a shared event possible.

"The vernal equinox calls on all mankind to recognize and respect Earth’s beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance."

Margaret Mead
Read Margaret Mead's 1977 Earth Day Statement

http://www.earthsite.org/
 
I like the earth's "authentic" flag... a beautiful sphere of earth that looks like a shining blue gem!

erthflag.gif

http://www.earthsite.org/flag.htm

At the North Pole:
npole.jpg

http://www.wowzone.com/npole.htm

At the South Pole:
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http://www.wowzone.com/s-pole.htm

In Space (MIR):
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http://www.wowzone.com/mir.htm


"The Earth Flag is my symbol of the task before us all. Only in the last quarter of my life have we come to know what it means to be custodians of the future of the Earth - to know that unless we care, unless we check the rapacious exploitations of our Earth and protect it, we are endangering the future of our children and our children's children. we did not know this before, except in little pieces. People knew that they had to take care of their own...but it was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for."

Margaret Mead, March 21, 1977

http://www.earthsite.org/flag.htm
 
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