Earth Day is hard, Earth Minute is easy
Fri, Apr 17 2009 at 10:40 AM EST
Photo credit: Flickr user Little Dan 77 Who has an entire day to devote to the Earth? Heck, who even has an hour? Earth Day is coming up next week, but many people will be hard pressed to find 24 entire hours to dedicate to saving the world we live in. In the day and age of Twitter and text messages, we need an environmental awareness campaign designed to fit in our on-the-go lifestyle.
So I'm proud to announce Earth Minute -- the eco-event anyone can easily participate in.
On May 20 at 4:17 p.m., billions of people around the world will hold their collective breath for a full sixty seconds, preventing tons of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere. After Earth Minute is up, they will all go back to their normal lives polluting and impacting the environment, at least until Earth Minute comes back around next year (or until someone comes up with Earth Second).
It's quick, it's easy, and it will do absolutely nothing to save the world. Just like Earth Day!
(My tongue is firmly planted in cheek. Everyday should be Earth Day, we're not going to get out of this eco-mess we've backed ourselves into if we reserve caring about the planet to one day out of three hundred and sixty five.)
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Comments(5)
Posted By EnergyCircle - Tue, May 19 2009 at 1:17 PM EST28th Earth Day in a row
We're on our 28th Earth Day in a row at EnergyCircle. Went live with our home's energy usage & are annotating & tweeting about it every day. Follow us @EnergyCircleKW! http://www.energycircle.com/ted_display.php
Posted By Joseph Chapman - Tue, May 19 2009 at 8:44 AM ESThttp://jjchapman.wordpress.com
Great idea. I will definitely do this and get my friends to too. Can it really make a difference though, or is it a bit of a spoof?
Posted By Greenpointer - Tue, Apr 21 2009 at 1:35 PM ESTHow bout the Green Air Minute to broadcast it?
I've always thought the minute message was the key to sweeping global change. The Green Air Minute get's broadcast to millions of commercial radio listeners weekly and this could be just the thing to tie them all together.
Nice work!
Posted By GreenErinF - Fri, Apr 17 2009 at 5:53 PM ESTSomeone beat you to Earth Second...
Host Kathie Griffin did a tongue-in-cheek "Earth Second" on the Bravo A-List Awards the other night. :)
4:17pm Eastern?
You know...if we're going to make the biggest impact - I want to be sure I'm doing it at the right time. ;-)