Earth Day April 22nd 2010
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
On April 22nd millions of people around the world unite to celebrate, appreciate and inspire awareness for the Earths unique place in the Universe.
Realizing that widespread environmental destruction was happening Gaylord Nelson, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, founded the Earth Day celebration hoping to demonstrate popular political support for an environmental agenda. On April 22, 1970, over 20 million people joined together to participate in the first ever Earth Day. Earth Day is now observed on April 22 each year by over a billion people in 190 countries.
That first year saw massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
This year, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. Individuals and organizations the world over are taking environmental action to a new level. The core of this anniversary year is the Billion Acts of Green campaign. “The goal of the campaign is to aggregate the millions of environmental service commitments that individuals and organizations around the world make each year – thereby sending a powerful message that people from all walks of life are committed to solving climate change.” You can go onto their website www.earthday.org and add your act of green to be part of the change.
Earth Day reminds us we all share the same planet. Our Key West philosophy of One Human Family is crucial here. Sharing the Earth means taking responsibility for what we use and how we use it. It doesn’t take much to change something in your life that will make the earth a better place.
On Earth Day we are giving away FREE organic coffee to anyone that brings their own reusable coffee mug. We will also be donating 5% of our sales to Eco Week.
After Earth Day we will continue to reward customers that bring their own coffee mugs by giving back 15 cents from each coffee as a start to our ‘pre-cycle’ program.
We should all make a concerted effort to make Earth Day part of our every day lifestyle.
