Did you participate in Earth Hour last month? Did you know April is Earth Month?
For anyone late to the celebration, or who hasn’t thought about making a concerted effort to benefit our planet, which is struggling due to the impact of climate change, today, Earth Day, is another opportunity to make a difference, even if the first step is a small one.
With everything going on in the world: pandemic, Russian aggression, inflation, to name a few of the current crises, taking a pause to celebrate and consider our planet and how we treat it may be challenging, but nonetheless important.
The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970. More than 50 years later, a billion-plus people in 190-plus countries participate in initiatives with Mother Nature in mind, but the world still faces great peril. Climate change presents a massive challenge, but also an opportunity to build toward a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable society.
Earth Hour is only a starting point, and we have to wait until next March for another chance at that one. Only one Earth Day per year is far from sufficient to address the effects of climate change, on a grand scale by a community or country, or a more seemingly miniscule effort by a single person or family.
Earth Month is more like it, but everyone should move toward considering every flip of the calendar another Earth Month filled with Earth Days.
Start with the basics: Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, use public transit, walk or bike if you are able, support local businesses to ease the burden on the global supply chain, start a compost, turn off a light switch.
What are you going to do today, and moving forward, for our planet?
