Earth Day History And Some Activities That Can Make A Difference
What's Earth Day?
What's Earth Day?
Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson on April, twenty-two 1970. He was worried about the growing environmental crisis and attempted to make it a known and discussed issue. Beginning as an environmental teach-in in Philadelphia on April sixteen lasting until April twenty-two, with no official governing body, it grew at the grassroots level to a global day of environmental awareness.
At the 1st Earth Day in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia visitors included ; Senator Edmund Muskie ( author of the Clean Air Act, 1970 ), Ralph Nader, Ian McHarg Landscape designer, George Wald a Nobel prize-winning Harvard Biochemist, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and poet Allen Ginsberg. Since that point, regular folk like me and you, stars and glad-handers have thrown themselves into expressing the issues of environmentally aware actions including recycling, energy conservation and reducing and / or reusing dispensable items. Becoming an international effort to save our world, Earth Day turned into a world firm with a governing body to assemble activities and ideas.
While many of us support Earth Day, there are feedback. Some say that Earth Day has come to designate the marginalization of environmental protection, and the celebration of itself has outlasted its usefulness, writer Alex Steffen. In a May 5th Washington Times editorial Arbor Day was compared with Earth Day as Arbor Day being a very content, non-political celebration of trees, while Earth Day was a gloomy, political ideology that portrayed humans in a negative light. Peter Foster from Junk Science claims that Earth Day was conceived in counter-culture hysteria and has developed as a focus for ideological opposition to industrialized society and cites the volcanic eruption in Iceland as evidence mother nature does what she pleases and that includes polluting.
When you look at it, Earth Day has some vehement supporters and vehement knockers. Either way they both have a point. We are stewards of this planet and we are able to make some pretty big messes, on the other hand the planet can make some massive messes of its own that we have no power to control. Feeling guilty about how you live your life isn't any way to live ; that includes how you cope with the environment. We shouldn't feel guilted or be forced into trying new concepts to keep our world clean. We should need to do what little we are able to to leave a better place for generations yet to come factoring in what we haven't any control of. Deciding the benefits of Earth Day is an individual decision.
At the very least bringing to the forefront awareness of the dangerous chemicals used in many of our everyday products is a good thing. This has created a huge commercial vacuum that corporations are rushing to fill. Taking the green approach to packaging and making their products, companies have jumped on the bandwagon of ecologically friendly products. Keeping noxious ingredients out of our cleaning and everyday products will go a great distance to help the environment and our family's health.
One way to help the planet is by purchasing earth friendly cleaning products. One company has been around making and promoting non-damaging and biodegradable cleaners and health products since before Earth Day and environmental issues were founded. Dr. Shaklee set up the Shaklee co. and introduced the first biodegradable all-purpose cleaner and official Earth Day product over fifty years back called Basic-H.
in keeping with the pace and trend Shaklee has developed a cleaning system any steward of the environment would like to have. It is named Get Clean and comes in a starter kit that has all that you need to replace all of the noxious cleaners most homes now use and out-performs 11 state brands. This kit helps to eliminate 108 pounds of waste from landfills, 248 pounds of Carbon emissions and is equivalent to planting ten trees. People using these products have just saved enough plastic from going into landfills to circle the globe over 19 times.
Whether or not you agree with the politics behind Earth Day, leaving our planet better than we found it has to count for something. We can choose to buy concentrated products that we add water to, to minimize the amounts of waste or reuse or recycle our trash. We are able to use non-toxic cleaners that keep chemicals out of our water. Our world is changing as it has through history, what we decide to do or not to do, will impact our future.
Earth Day History And Some Activities That Can Make A Difference
By: Steve Geysbeek
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