Today is Earth Day, a day many people get involved in Earth activities or it gets swept under the carpet. I have always loved the day. It's a day to celebrate annually, though we should be caring for Mother Earth daily It's a day to highlight environmental protection and promote sustainability. The day can feature many things to get involved with, or we can just change our ways to protect and serve, like neighborhood tree plantings, creating a bird or bee habitat, liter pickups, or just unplugging things not in use frequently or turning off lights and things when not in a room, using grocery reuseable bags or a market basket INSTEAD of those dreaded damn plastic bags! I never go to the farmers market without my trusty basket to put everything in. Or it could be as simple as donating to so many various animal and environmental charities and agencies. I got a small group of us at work to go today to a park in Mechanicsburg to do a litter pick up, and once home, it's a day to make an extra contribution to several of the charities I belong to. Since I was in Philly for the weekend, another great way to have a fun day and do something to make a difference is look into your local parks!!!
I'm amazed at the parks in Philadelphia, which has almost over 63 park spaces in and around the city...Fairmount Park being one of the largest urban landscaped park systems in the US. So, this year I decided my new charity to give to this year is Friends of Rittenhouse Square, since I can't be there in person. I saw a booth this weekend and signed up. Rittenhouse Square, which is the fourth oldest park in the US, is like many other parks in the county. They need care and help, maintaining and improving to keep them around for our respite. Friends of Rittenhouse work tirelessly to help transform the Square into a place of peace and inspiration like litter removal, cleaning graffiti, planting flowers, weeding, and tending to gardens, clearing leaves, mowing lawns...or just donating or volunteering time, to a fund or group if they have one, and some parks even have benches you can buy and have placed in memory of someone. Our parks are more important than ever, what with urban crawl and development, or funds being cut off completely to maintain them. All these photos are fine example of parks in Philly I have taken over the years. 
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So many ways to give, or donate money or time too this Earth Day. Time to protect the environments and our animal and insect world before it's too late. Here are my primary groups I usually give too on Earth Day.
And if interested in parks, check out your Parks and Recreations section of your local or city's website to see if they have a donations section or have a volunteer program.
And Happy Earth Day!
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The park system in Ohio is one of the best, referred to as The Emerald Necklace, it spans the entire state with many parks joining at some point. Here? it's pretty sad...they'd rather think of the gaming properties as parks.
ReplyDeleteI always love a good Japanese Garden! We have one here at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden just outside of Edmonton.
ReplyDeleteOur nearest botanic garden doesn't boast a Japanese garden but it is the oldest botanic garden in the UK. When I was a child my favourite was the pond in one of the glass houses, featuring brilliantly coloured fish darting under the lily leaves. My daughter loved it too. Based on a small island in a tributary of the Thames the garden is an idylic place to visit on a beautiful spring day like today.
ReplyDeleteLovely post!
ReplyDeleteEarth Day
ReplyDeleteTime to reflect and take action on ways to protect Earth from those that wish to destroy Earth.
Luv me some Japanese garden, we have a great one at the Huntington Gardens over in Pasadena, it’s magical.
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