It’s too mainstream a holiday to make it into our “Dates to Remember” sidebar, but some of you want to to talk about it, so here you go.
39 thoughts on “Earth Day”
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It’s too mainstream a holiday to make it into our “Dates to Remember” sidebar, but some of you want to to talk about it, so here you go.
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YAY!
Earth Day Thread!
YAY FOR EARTH DAY!!
THE EARTH IS RAINING ON ITS SPECIAL DAY…..I guess that means it likes to rain…no, I’ve got it! IT IS WATERING ALL ITS PLANTS, ETC. right?
HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!
Totally.
Look at google.
Happy earth day! I’m planting a tree and wearing my ‘BUY FRESH BUY LOCAL’shirt, and there’s a Slow Food Youth party I’m attending tonight. Any Slow Food Musers on the blog?
Earth is still mind-bogglingly boring.
Explain Slow Food, please.
Hooray for Earth day, even if it is a mainstream holiday!
Happy earth day to you,
Happy earth day to you.
Happy earth day dear earth-y
Happy earth day to you!
Cheesy? Yes, I think so. But I like cheese.
I’m going to pick up all the trash in the wash for at least one square mile.
I’m going to clean the nature preserve once the rain stops
YAY 4 EARTH DAY!
The dates to remember sidebar is getting too full. My birthday is taking forever to appear on it. Maybe we should make it more dates than five. How about 7 or 10?
Instead of just saying “woo yeah go Earth” let’s do something novel.
LET’S RECYCLE! OMG NO WAY!
Think about it. Styrofoam dosen’t decompose, and it never will. So why are we making it? Do you realize that if Columbus ( who is and was a total jerk) had had styrofoam cups when he came to America, those same cups would still be around>
Honestly. Where do you think those wrappers and cups and cans end up? In the trash? Well, eventually. But where does the trash go?
It goes to a landfill where it sits.
And sits.
And sits.
But someday there’s going to be no space left.
Then what?
Don’t just let today be Earth Day- everyday.
Or face the consequences.
-wings a happy song and floats off-
8- I was singing something very similiar this morning.
At the nature preserve near my house, people throw sytrofoam cups as well as plastic begs on the ground. And people walk their dogs on the trail. Lets see: Plastic Bags+Small Dogs. Hmmmmm….
There is a really great song by Tom Chapin about recycling. Can I pleeeeaaaasssseeeee post the link? It just has the lyrics and youcan listen to it, too. PLEASE don’t zap it!
[We wish you wouldn’t put us in this position. Zap! –Admin.]
grrrrrrrr……..
fine. I’ll post them here!
if you want to hear the music, you can probably search for it on itunes. Also, search for “Tom Chapin Recycle Lyrics” on google, and it is the first site (called ‘songs for teaching’ or something like that)
A stegosaurus in the forest munching on some hay,
Lay down to snooze in a bed of ooze and sadly passed away.
Her body changed and rearranged as she sank beneath the soil,
And over time she turned to slime and then she turned to oil.
So she disappears for a jillion years ’til finally she is found
By a guy named Bill with an oil drill who sucks her from the ground.
Bill pipes that poor old dinosaur to an oil refinery,
Where they bubble and boil and change that oil into stuff for you and me.
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E. That’s the way it’s s’posed to be.
The Earth recycles and so do we. R-E-C-Y-C-L-E.
From the late Jurassic it’s fantassic how our dino-friend
Has now become petroleum and still that’s not the end.
With dino-juice they now produce a million plastic jugs,
And stegosaurus drinking straws and stegosaurus mugs.
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E. That’s the way it’s s’posed to be.
The Earth recycles and so do we. R-E-C-Y-C-L-E.
That’s the way the system works, things don’t disappear:
We turn sand into window glass, and roots into root beer.
We cut and mine and we refine and make these things and then
Use ’em not just once, not just twice,
But again and again and again and again and again.
And if a dinosaur could see us pouring orange juice this way
From a plastic jug we made of her, well this is what she’d say:
“It took me 80 million years to get to you today;
So don’t throw that mug, don’t throw that jug, don’t you throw me away…”
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E. That’s the way it’s s’posed to be.
We’re just a link in the chain of history. R-E-C-Y-C-L-E.
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E. That’s the way it’s s’posed to be.
Hey, I recycled this melody. R-E-C-Y-C-L-E.
Use it again. R-E-C-Y-C-L-E. And again. R-E-C-Y-C-L-E.
Copy/paste the lyrics here, if you want us to hear it.
…nice…
ha! magical.
I LIEK THE EARTH.
Global warming sucks. I don’t think we can stop it in tiem. I’m kinda scared…
yes! we can be environmentally conscious for a day, then go back to polluting + genetically modifying everything for another 364
sounds good!
As it happens, Earth Day is also one of my best friends’ birthday. So I was at a B-day party. But we sang Happy Earth Day as well as the more-known Happy Birthday.
Seeing as this is the Earth Day thread, I’ll relate to you a thing that happened to me just a fem minutes ago.
We have this planter by the side of our house, and it used to have a tree in it, but the tree died, so we didn’t really use it for much. But it was pretty old, so this morning Dad noticed that it had fallen over and broken. It was made of wooden slats held together by a few strips of metal, for anyone who wants to know. So, anyway, it had a whole lot of styrofoam packing peanuts in the bottom, to help with drainage or whatever, and they all fell out and started blowing away. Relating to post 11 (Styrofoam never decomposes), we picked up every little one. But they still will probably get thrown away. If only people would use the completely biodegradable ones!
Global warming is HERE
Thank you Violetfire! Some styrofoam is recyclable but I don’t know that all of it is- in any case, people just can’t be bothered. My mom actualy goes through all the stuff my dad/brother throw out and puts it in it’s place. >.> Just me and her recycling, though my dad does try…
But anyway, it’s a choice to not recycle, just like it was a choice to destroy the Earth. You break it, you buy it. Have fun with the radiation, rising water, and dead animals! ^-^
Here is a really good example of how bored i am
*take deap breath, clears throat*
Happy Earth Day To You
Happy Earth Day To You
Happy Earth Day To Earth
Happy Earth Day To You
*bows*
*takes in applause*
lame huh?
actually i just am doing it so my brother (die) cant get on here
sing my above song to the tune of the happy birthday song
Styrofoam disolves in acetone. But thats not much help.
Today is Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful day!!!/
It is? Hey, who watched that ‘global dimming’ thing on Nova. Brr. Creepy. I have a good idea: DUMPSTER DIVE! That way, fewer new products will have to be made, and as we all know, the manufacturing of products usually hurts the envirornment in some way or another. Oh and another thing: ride your bike! Work that lazy butt off while also using less foreign and polluting oil.
13: The plastic bags are probably full of dog poop.
I have a unicycle! And I can ride it! And I have a Segway scooter powered by recycled cooking oil. I get the oil from the McDonald’s a couple blocks away from my house. Does that count as v. Earth Day-ish?
i just found out yesterday that the acetone in nail polish remover dissolves the varnish on antique dressers.
and how did you come to discover that?
Acetone is also in cigarettes. Another reason not to smoke. It also smells disgusting.
i was taking off my nail polish when some accidentally spilled… my parents are going to shoot me if they see it… ill just cover the spot w/ an artistic looking vase or box (i hav a lot of those in my room)
why ismit that of all the gazzillion species only humans saw fit to destroy the world? its biting the hand that feeds you and setting fire to your home.
My Grandpa is 77 and has been trying to quit smoking for 20 years and he finally has!! He is 1 month smoke-free!!
I’m very proud of him.