Earth DAY 2009

After the Earth HOUR, which prompted millions to help save the planet by turning off lights comes Earth DAY 2009, April 22, which marks the start of a bigger and wider campaign for what I call “Bringing Earth’s Green Back”.  The great call states the following principles:

As shown by the massive response to Earth Hour, it seems safe to conclude that our world unites in an aim to re-habilitate our ailing planet.  As such, together with my household, I call on everyone who reads this blog to contribute a part in support of Earth Day Movement.  To show ours, here are the simple things we do for a cleaner, greener and better Earth:

• Turn off and unplug all the appliances when not in use.
• Minimize the kids’ use of television and DVD by substituting watching with book/magazine reading, engaging into indoor sports, dancing and the arts.
• Let your tot put on shorts at daytime when he’s just inside the house to lessen the number of soiled disposable diapers.  The reason behind this is explained by the following facts taken from Wikipedia:

Cloth diaper-wearing children go through about 6,000 diaper changes. If thrown into a landfill, cotton diapers decompose within six months. Since disposable diapers are discarded after a single use, usage of disposable diapers increases the burden on landfill sites, and increased environmental awareness has led to a growth in campaigns for parents to use reusable alternatives such as cloth or hybrid diapers. An estimated 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used each year in the US, resulting in a possible 3.4 million tons of used diapers adding to landfills each year.

• Reuse papers and plastic bags.
• Plant trees.  As my mom puts it, “if one individual who has lived to be 80 years old made a habit of planting a tree  on his birthday, he would have planted 80 trees in his lifetime“.  What if each of us follow the same?  Could you imagine the number of trees we could plant together; and the multitude of benefits that come with each of them?

These are just five of the many other ways of putting Earth’s life back to normal. What’s your part? Share it so we could learn from you, too!

Each of us has ONE life to live. Make each moment count. In the same way, each of us has ONE Earth to live in, make it clean and green!