Happy Earth Day (Every Day)
Wednesday Apr 22, 2009
Unless you're Dramarama, today is Earth Day. At least, it's US Earth Day; "International Earth Day" is observed every March equinox as well.
Anyway, "Happy Earth Day," I guess. I always have mixed feelings about calling out a specific date as the day we're all supposed to think about the Earth, presumably blowing it off the other 364.25 days of the year. This point of view is not unique, and Grist compiled a good set of essays exploring a range of points of view on the subject. They kind of missed the mark with their unfortunately named Screw Earth Day campaign, however. I get that they were joking, but I'm pretty sure they didn't want its funniest attribute to be found in deliberately misreading the message "Screw Earth Day" and replying: "Isn't that the problem? We screw the Earth every day." I'm gonna say they sort of misfired on the tone, particularly with that YouTube video they posted today. Pretty unfunny.
My favorite on-line Earth Day observance is Nasa's Top 10 Greatest Hits for the Earth. The geocacher in me loves that online voting ranked GPS at #1. Nasa has provided other eye candy in the form of images of our Big Blue Marble from the International Space Station. Enjoy. Then go outside and enjoy the real thing.
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