I thought I had heard it all, but a national day for DIRT? Comeon! You gotta be kiddin me, right? No? It’s for real? Well, all I can say is, look out for whatever is next! Maybe Air Day? Like Air Ball? :-D

OH!  NOW I GET IT!

Not “earth” as in “plowing the earth”, but “Earth” as in “I come from Planet Earth!” OK – makes a small difference, right?

Well, I suppose I got all the rabid greens really going now, huh? Sorry ’bout that. Didn’t mean to stir up THAT bunch – they can be a real pain, if you know what I mean.

But seriously, a National Day for the Earth? I guess I’m like the women who say “why a national Women’s Day – EVERY day should be women’s day.” I agree with that, and I have the same opinion when it comes to National Earth Day. I truely believe that every day should be “Earth Day” as well – all 365 or 366 of them every year.

If you’ve been reading my posts for a while, you won’t be surprised when you hear that I started looking in the Internet about what else there is to know about Earth Day. I guess the only thing that surprised me (no, I don’t remember it that clearly, I was working in southern Africa at the time, and communications were not then what they are now) was the (rough) connection to the first anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death – now 41 years ago. Being something of a cynic, I might say that the activist greens then attempted (apparently successfully) to take over the public opinon wave of the equal-rights movement and join the two movements into one. That seems to have worked to a certain extent, but I don’t really believe that the black population joined the Earth Day movement strongly as a result. (Here comes the real cynic… ) I suspect that the greens used the situation to recruit the non-blacks in the equal-rights movement into the green movement – where they might feel socially more comfortable?

I expect I’ll get some excited mail about this, and I’m not saying that what I’m presupposing above is true or not – I really don’t know. For the record, I’m sympathetic to both causes; I was a demonstator for equal rights in the early 1960′s when I was in University (yes, I’m that old). And my skin in not black. I’m also a non-rabid supporter of environmental protection in various forms. But my skin is not green, either. Does that make a difference to you? It doesn’t to me.

Anyway, I was a little surprised that there is such a thing as the “EarthDayNetwork” – but they seem to have almost taken on my theory, their website’s by-line is “every day for everybody” – close, but no prize from me. They even have a religious outreach section. Hmmm. Then, my curiosity got the better of me, and I Googled (oops – no advertising intended) “every day is earth day” and the first consistent result I got was a children’s book called the same thing. Then a post from NASA from the ISS – that makes sense somehow, doesn’t it. And then a miscellaneous collection of things – a garbage museum in Delaware, Portland farmers market (Oregon, not Maine as it turns out), lesson planning from PBS, another from an institute for stress management, etc. Nothing really “hard core” there. Maybe a niche market for an Internet entrepreneur? Or the name of our next ring website? Could be! Hmm – everydayisearthday.com is apparently registered by GoDaddy – my absolute favorite domain registrar – but is not active. everydayisearthday.net is an mlm representative’s home page, ditto.org is a very simple environmentalist’s webpage, ditto.biz is empty, and dot-info redirects to dot-net. 3 out of 5 is not a great record. On the other hand, we have the only two domains practical-greenology.com and practicalgreenology.com – everything else there is available! Hmmm, I’m rambling.

Anyway, I want to wish the organisers of Earth Day success, and that for every day of the year, not just the 22nd of April.

Ciao for now,

Craig
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