Earth Day!

Earth day was designed as a day of celebration and awareness of the world we live in. Beyond eating local veggies, riding your bike, refilling your water bottle, or whatever else it is that you do to lower your personal impact on the environment, I think that it is important to take the time on earth day to ‘enlarge our world’. This year I heard about a product that I thought would be a very cool way to enlarge our world and celebrate earth day. The product is called PUR. It is a little packet of powder that can remove dirt, 99.9% of intestinal bacteria, intestinal viruses, and protozoa from 10 liters of water at a time (P&G 2009). Basically it can take water that is completely brown and full of everything from dead animal juices to fecal matter to invisible parasites, and make it good to drink. I recommend watching the little clip on the PUR website. http://www.csdw.org/csdw/index.html

To raise money to send PUR packets to areas of the word that need it most I have designed t-shirts that I am selling. All of the proceeds are donated to buy PUR water purification packets

Other examples of ways to raise money for good causes can be found at Malaria No More. Malaria No More is an organization that sends treated mosquito nets to places where they are needed, and also provides education about malaria to the recipients of the nets. http://www.malarianomore.org/

These organizations focus on issues that I happen to be interested in, but we all have our passions. Think about what it is that you love and see how you can help others share your passion.

Another thought…On earth day Disney is coming out with a movie from the same director as ‘Planet Earth.’ The movie is creatively called ‘EARTH.’ It would be fun to go see as a group (perhaps in matching earth day shirts?). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G06r7eKKjkI