Earth Day tomorrow! Honoring Planet Earth in unique ways?

[Silent Mistwalker]

11 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

I found this earlier today which really brightened my day..

 

 

[Sid Nagy]

 

Earth isn't really impressed about what we do or don't I guess.
We are next to nothing for mother earth.

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by Sid Nagy

[Luna Bliss]

    KITE

The Sunday after there was laughter in the air
Everybody had a kite
They were flying everywhere
And all the trouble went away
And it wasn't just a dream
All the trouble went away
And it wasn't just a dream

In the middle of the night
We try and try with all our mights
To light a little light down here
In the middle of the night
We dream of a million kites
Flying high above the sadness and the fear

Little sister just remember
As you wander through the blue
The little kite that you sent flying
On a sunny afternoon
Made of something light as nothing
Made of joy that matters too
How the little dreams we dream
Are all we can really do

In the middle of the night
The world turns with all of its might
A little diamond coloured blue
In the middle of the night
We keep sending little kites
Until a little light gets through

[Luna Bliss]

Some good quotes in here...at least to start...

 

[Luna Bliss]

A lovely but very sad poem by this Native American woman on Earth Day:

Women Like Me

By Wendy Rose

making promises they can’t keep.

For you, Grandmother, I said I would pull

each invading burr and thistle from your skin,

cut out the dizzy brittle eucalypt,

take from the ground the dark oily poison–

all to restore you happy and proud,

the whole of you transformed

and bursting into tomorrow.

           But where do I cut first?

Where should I begin to pull?

Should it be the Russian thistle

down the hill where backhoes

have bitten? Or African senecio

or tumbleweed bouncing

above the wind? Or the middle finger

of my right hand? Or my left eye

or the other one? Or a slice

from the small of my back, a slab of fat

from my thigh? I am broken

as much as any native ground,

my roots tap a thousand migrations.

My daughters were never born, I am

as much the invader as the native,

as much the last day of life as the first.

I presumed you to be as bitter as me,

to tremble and rage against alien weight.

Who should blossom? Who should receive pollen?

Who should be rooted, who pruned,

who watered, who picked?

Should I feed the white-faced cattle

who wait for the death train to come

or comb the wild seeds from their tails?

Who should return across the sea

or the Bering Strait or the world before this one

or the Mother Ground? Who should go screaming

to some other planet, burn up or melt

in a distant sun? Who should be healed

and who hurt? Who should dry

under summer’s white sky, who should shrivel

at the first sign of drought? Who should be remembered?

Who should be the sterile chimera of earth and of another place,

alien with a native face,

native with an alien face?

[Ceka Cianci]

I'm seeing some good signs in this one SL store for earth day.. hehehe

One say's, Keep The Earth Clean, It's Not Uranus.. hehehehe

Some were pretty dirty so not gonna say those, but they were funny..

[DalNiente]

17 hours ago, Sid Nagy said:

There is no need for such day.
People will not change.

I’m going to respectfully disagree.

 

As a student I always looked forward to Earth Day. While we had the usual lessons on recycling and conservation it was the celebration of various ecosystems which held my attention. Everything felt so new and exotic. The way they tied the lessons to conservation/recycling it compelled us to be more involved. As you get older we aren’t exposed to that level of learning and it’s easy to lose interest.

 

It was an advertisement for “Earth Day” at a school near my residence that got me interested again. I had to see “Plant a tree” every morning and evening for a solid month until I found myself in the gardening section of home depot. But I discovered just planting a tree isn’t so easy. Factors like soil, temperature, and light made tree choice difficult. Some trees could kill/harm others fighting for minerals in the soil. This sort of thinking spilled over into other things, sorting recycling and making sure the plastics are clean enough to be used a second time. Breaking down electronics.

 

That dumb sign ended up changing me. I grow bonsai now (which I’ve been called a horrible person because it’s gardening BDSM) I fish out zebra muscles from the local lakes when I can but I don’t expect everyone to do that. Throwing away and separating trash. Dropping off batteries at proper places. Ect ect ect. If I can become more “aware” then I feel like others can too.

I hope none of this comes off as "disrespectful"

[Luna Bliss]

9 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

I'm seeing some good signs in this one SL store for earth day.. hehehe

One say's, Keep The Earth Clean, It's Not Uranus.. hehehehe

That poor planet Uranus, so often the butt of our jokes these days.  Wasn't that punny?    

[Luna Bliss]

6 hours ago, DalNiente said:

I’m going to respectfully disagree.

 

As a student I always looked forward to Earth Day. While we had the usual lessons on recycling and conservation it was the celebration of various ecosystems which held my attention. Everything felt so new and exotic. The way they tied the lessons to conservation/recycling it compelled us to be more involved. As you get older we aren’t exposed to that level of learning and it’s easy to lose interest.

 

It was an advertisement for “Earth Day” at a school near my residence that got me interested again. I had to see “Plant a tree” every morning and evening for a solid month until I found myself in the gardening section of home depot. But I discovered just planting a tree isn’t so easy. Factors like soil, temperature, and light made tree choice difficult. Some trees could kill/harm others fighting for minerals in the soil. This sort of thinking spilled over into other things, sorting recycling and making sure the plastics are clean enough to be used a second time. Breaking down electronics.

 

That dumb sign ended up changing me. I grow bonsai now (which I’ve been called a horrible person because it’s gardening BDSM) I fish out zebra muscles from the local lakes when I can but I don’t expect everyone to do that. Throwing away and separating trash. Dropping off batteries at proper places. Ect ect ect. If I can become more “aware” then I feel like others can too.

I hope none of this comes off as "disrespectful"

Those are great examples of how Earth day changed you.

It reminded me of my ex-husband and how I began to like him. Our families were vacationing in the mountains (our dads were friends) and my brother came running up to me and said (about my 15-year-old eventual husband), "he's picking up trash along the stream!!!". I already thought he was kind of cute and interesting, but after hearing that I was in teenage love and said to my 16-year-old self "I'm going to marry that guy!"  And I did.

[Luna Bliss]

I like this video from Conservation International, by Reese Witherspoon:

"I am home.  I give you comfort; I shelter your family. See me for who I am, home sweet home. I am your refuge; I am the floor that supports you, the foundation that keeps you steady, the walls that give you shelter, the roof that protects you. I am your home. If you don't take care of me, I cannot take care of you."

 

[Prokofy Neva]

On 4/21/2022 at 1:55 PM, Gopi Passiflora said:

Yep, Earth Day is tomorrow (or today, depends where you live.) Yes, the standard way to celebrate Earth Day is for doing good for the environment (picking up trash, reduce, reuse, recycle, save energy and water sources, etc.) Although, the usual arguments come that we should be doing this EVERY DAY and not just April 22. So, maybe there's ways to make Earth Day more special?

This topic is more about the fun, entertaining, and more unique ways to honor Planet Earth. I was thinking people can eat a Land, Air, and Sea burger to celebrate three types of biomes found on this planet. (It doesn't necessarily have to come from McDonald's, too! Just use any combo of beef, chicken, and fish in hamburger buns!)

You mean Lenin's birthday. Well, I celebrated by staying offline and using less electricity and eating sprouts.

[Maryanne Solo]

Onuka/ZENIT - Ukrainian Band.
10 times more relevant long after release. 

There, where the mountains are high I fly freely
There, where the water is deep I swim freely

I fly freely in the sky
My melody is strong

There, where the mountains are high I fly freely
There, where the water is deep I swim freely

I fly in the sky
I fly in the sky
I fly in the sky
My melody
My melody

The wind freezes, as the sun rises at its zenith

Edited April 25, 2022 by Maryanne Solo