Comments on: What Are You Doing for Earth Day 2010?

By: suzanna

suzanna — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:09:49 +0000

It is amazing to me that Earth Day is celebrating 40 years. I am 47,was born and raised in the suburbs of New York, and had never heard of Earth Day – never mind celebrating it. No offense to my mother, but I was raised on eating deli meat sandwiches for lunch five days a week, for 46 weeks, for 12 years! My dinners five nights a week consisted of processed food with a side of canned vegetables. My savings grace was twice a week I ate pasta with homemade tomato sauce (tomatoes from a can – obviously), and I was not allowed soda. So, I naturally rebelled, and came to find out food grows in the ground and on trees to be eaten that way- and, without sprays. I joined a CSA. My five year old son’s diet is 95% organic and nutritious. To celebrate Earth Day, I took my son to his first movie in a theater; we saw Oceans. The comments he made during that film were priceless – they gave me an affirmation that we must be heading in the right direction. Last week he asked for seeds for “his” garden. Yesterday we purchased some organic soil. Today he will plant his first seed. In a few weeks, what will sprout will be a combination of pride, joy and appreciation for the earth and the knowledge of one’s responsibility to take care of it. As my son shouted out half way through the movie yesterday, ” Isn’t this planet beautiful! I love it here.”

By: kbeekman

kbeekman — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:03:51 +0000

I\’m helping lead an effort this weekend to convert a former electrical substation in an inner city neighborhood into a city park using entirely donated materials most of which have been gleaned from suburban neighborhood cast-offs (healthy plants no longer wanted by their owners). At the same time, our groups will be cleaning up some vacant lots that are also slated to be used to expand a 55-acre central city park along a former utility corridor as part of a process to repurpose a vacant paint store into an environmental education and arts center and a future home for an urban farmer\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s market. The site prep will include using municipal mulch recycled from leaves and Christmas trees and hauled to the site using a pick-up truck rented from a car sharing service.

By: eltempleton

eltempleton — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:58:25 +0000

This Earth Day I, along with the rest of my company, will be completing and reflecting on a self-inflicted, two week Earth Day challenge. Starting two weeks ago, we each submitted our own green advice –simple things like turning off lights and minding faucets– and had everyone else incorporate the tips as we went along. We also had a managing partner from our “green” branch weigh in to dispel some myths and give us advice on how to take our tips to the next level. We all really learned a lot — not just about ways to be green, but about doing it every single day. Today we posted up a recap with a really cool video of Walter Cronkite covering the very first Earth Day in 1970. he makes a very poignant point — some of us “get it” and some of us don’t, but either way we’re all in it together. There’s a link to the video here: http://dmdinsight.com/blogs/post/235-happy-earth-day-

By: Arthur Young

Arthur Young — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:53:19 +0000

Like Britt Liggett, an Inhabitat editor living in Brooklyn, where I used to live, I believe Earth Day is a point to reflect, plant and express gratitude. Where I live now, 12 minutes North of the Golden Gate Bridge, I will be nurturing heirloom tomatoes from Sonoma into my garden and deck planters, taking a bus over to Muir Woods to walk through precious redwoods, and attending a lecture by Bill McKibben on Global Weirding (Tom Friedman\\\’s term) at Dominican University, with friends. Al Gore wrote today we have never been closer to changing direction yet there\\\’s so much incoherence, disharmony, and downright nonsense that these truly seem like the best of times and the worst of times. Hope springs eternal.

By: ebarnes

ebarnes — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:30:01 +0000

This Earth Day, I\\\’m spending much of my time and energy with projects supported on ioby.org, a nonprofit I helped found to support the local heroes and stewards that care for the green infrastructure of NYC. I donated to support this educational garden in Bushwick, Brooklyn, http://ioby.org/projects/brooklyn/bushwick-library-community-garden and on Saturday I\\\’m going to remove marine debris and plant native plants at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens http://ioby.org/projects/queens/earth-day-restoration-cleanup-planting-saturday-ap

By: jbisdaman

jbisdaman — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:27:07 +0000

I’ll be watching the movie 2012. ;-P

Oh and attending the Earth Day rally in DC.

By: designfuturist

designfuturist — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:01:50 +0000

Hi, I will celebrate Earth Date by hosting a fun workshop on Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, April 29th in New York.

So many companies say their products are green, it\’s important to know the facts to make informed decisions. For details, visit: http://ecofashion.eventbrite.com/