Tag Archives: Earth Day

An Earth Day Poem

Okay, so it doesn’t rhyme, but you get the point, eh? Everything we use ends up in the water So if we want to keep our heads above water Before we are all in hot water and we don’t want … Continue reading

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The State of the Earth 2022

Not your typical Earth Day post There are only two roads in life, growing and dying. Tolbert McCarroll, Notes from the Song of Life Earth Day 2022.  If you want to know how it all started, you can read last … Continue reading

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The State of the Earth – 2021

Make Earth Day Every Day April 22 — Earth Day.  I was leafing through an oversized magazine a friend gave me when she retired entitled,Earth Week ’70,published in 1970 as the Official Publication of the Philadelphia Earth Week Committee.  At … Continue reading

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Earth Day 2020

EARTH DAY 2020 and the Rule of Six P’s When I woke up this morning it was 33 degrees out, interesting because the average winter temperatures here in sleepy Central Pennsylvania were higher in January (37 degrees) and February (40.7 … Continue reading

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Silence (the sound of)

Silence (the sound of) Years ago I read an article in the Utne Reader, called In Search of Silence, about Gordon Hempton who created One Square Inch, a project dedicated to identifying and preserving places in the Hoh Rainforest of … Continue reading

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Earth Day 2018

  EARTH DAY 2018 The State of the Planet and What You Can Do to Help Fix It So here we are again, April 22, Earth Day, the one day a year that belongs to the “Mother of us all,” Senator Gaylord … Continue reading

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We Need Humor — and Goats!

We Need Humor and Goats Earth Day 2017 March for Science #WATWB On Saturday, April 22, 2017, I stood in the rain with about 200 other people in the town square of sleepy little Lancaster  PA to promote science.     … Continue reading

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