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“If we did not take care of Mother Earth where would we live?”
– Louise Hay, Hay House Publishing
Are you as astonished as I am by the beauty on this planet? I am ever grateful to Gaylord Nelson, senator from Wisconsin for proposing April 22, 1970, the United States’ first Earth Day. And I am excited that we have this annual opportunity to honor where we live. Earth Day’s influence has been immeasurable. It spawned laws that protect the environment: The Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency. Our quality of living would be greatly diminished if not for these measures.
If you’ve ticked Earth Day 2019 on your calendar and you want to make a difference, here are a few suggestions:
Pick up litter
Start a compost bin, at home or at school
Recycle or set up a recycling station
Turn off water when you brush your teeth
Switch to online bill payments rather than paper bills
Use public transportation
Turn down your water heater
Install energy efficient lights
Plant a tree
Eliminate single use plastic – plastic bottles, plastic forks and knives, etc.
Start a garden, indoors or outside
Make art from trash or otherwise re-purpose waste
More ideas at my 2016 blog Make Earth Day Everyday!
These simple Earth Day 2019 actions have a big impact on lifting the burden off of Mother Earth. But if your heart is not feeling the call to action, if you are seeking “the why” and haven’t found an incentive that touches your senses, I believe Rabbi Leah Novick’s explanation of Nature’s capacity to inspire humans may shed light. “They say the rocks dance strong, the plants sprout, the animals bring a powerful energy, and human beings bring speech and culture to the world. But we’re all unified in that the Shekhinah, the divine presence moves through all of us. From the Kabbalistic, the mystical perspective, it’s like this is where God comes through at the human and the earth level; that there are all different layers or levels in the Tree of Life in which the God energy is expressed, but the Shekhinah energy is the accessible divinity, the divinity that we can apprehend through the senses.
…when there is pollution and violence on the planet the Shekhinah takes the option sometimes to ascend into the Seven Heavens….so when we do good works, when we pray, when we meditate, when we sing, when we host people, when we give charity, what we do is pull her back down….(we feel purified and at ease – Bette Steflik) what we do makes a big difference in the world.”
I hope you enjoy Earth Day 2019 however you choose to celebrate, contemplate or honor your relationship to our dear beautiful, planet, Earth.
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