On this day in 1970 the United States celebrated the first Earth Day, a day dedicated to increasing awareness of the world’s environmental problems.
Is there something about our awareness of the importance of thoughtful environmental stewardship for which you feel grateful?
Or is there something else for which you are thankful today?
Please talk to us in the comments.
I am so grateful for the awareness of keeping our water clean. Clean water is one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century. Now our challenge is to stop wasting water; we don’t need to buy water in plastic bottles when our water is clean from the tap. I am so fortunate and grateful to be surrounded by the one of the largest fresh water sources in the world.
I’m thankful for earth and the universe.
What would have happened if humans had’nt come about?
I’m thankful for many reasons that reusable grocery bags have come into common use, but especially because of the reduction of “urban tumbleweed” blowing around.
I’m thankful that repurposing and “upcycling” are popular. I’m amazed at some of the things people can create without consuming more resources.
I am grateful for curbside recycling
I am grateful for curbside recycling (and the new big bins with lids!) and so very thankful for Ripple Glass. Yes, I feel like a crazy alcoholic one every couple of months when I take my very full bin to recycle, but what a great service for the KC area.
I’m grateful for the purple Ripple Glass things all over KC.
I’m grateful for simple livers and the home-funeral movement.
There is a scene in a Mad Men episode when the family has a picnic in a park and then they get up and leave and they just abandon all of their trash without a thought. I am so glad that isn’t the way it’s done anymore – because it seems to me that in order to be self-aware we have to start with our environment, and if our standards were as they are in Mad Men then the self-aware journey would be even more difficult.