Earth Day – April 22, 2009

Earth Day April 22, 2009 will mark the beginning of The Green Generation CampaignTM which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. http://www.earthday.net/earthday2009

Plan a special Earth Day event.  This issue is important enough to be elevated to a national day of recognition.  That should be a good enough reason for all of us to take a closer look at how our current habits and actions are impacting the environment.

Everyone should be figuring out ways and implementing efforts they can exercise in order to help protect our environment not only for this one day but every day of the year!

Encourage friends and family members to get actively involved in environmental education programs.  Strive to support and bring awareness to issues that have great personal importance to you and your community.

Teach your children the importance of their role in helping to preserve and save our environment as well as the environment that will be their future.  This offers a wonderful opportunity for you to connect with your children.  Get outside and plant some flowers, bushes or trees.  Collaborate with teachers and faculty members to initiate green campaigns that actively involve and educate children on the importance of saving our environment.

Once habits have been established they are difficult to break.  Make reusing and recycling a way of life.  Pay attention to what your children are most interested in doing then work toward getting them directly involved to help support, maintain or improve the causes that are important to them.

There are so many environmental agencies helping to connect people with nature making it easier to research and get educated on all the spectacular environmental efforts going on not only in your area but all around the world!