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My Pledge for Mother
I've always had this ordained guilt for space my body and I take upon this earth. I see people throwing things away senselessly, fighting over prices and materials just for it all to fill landfills and clutter backyards to collect rust. I've always tried to search for the right, for the intention in everything I do. The intense guilt and self-loathing I felt when I would be told "that's junk, just throw it away" overwhelmed me as a kid. They start you off young, cutting out bold laminate letters reading "Remember to Recycle" in my first-grade classroom, right above the cubbies as you hang up your backpacks and take off your shoes. Continuing further with notes by light switches in my seventh-grade classroom, "The last one out turns off the light!", and even a designated student every week to make sure all computers were off after free time.
By Brianne Crowe5 years ago in Earth
Ode to the Red Eft
It's late morning somewhere in North Carolina. I've been hiking alone so far today, mindlessly listening to music as my feet carve a repetitive step, step, step into the damp earth. It rained hard all night, and my friends and I woke up to sopping tents. But this morning, the sky is a crisp, cheerful blue, and the sun warms me as I walk.
By Sarahmarie Specht-Bird5 years ago in Earth
Harnessing the Influence of Business to Fight Climate Change
Coming out of lockdown and returning to normal, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to play their part in helping the UK achieve net-zero emissions. However, a report carried out by a coalition of top business groups, energy networks, and expert bodies reported that many don’t know how they can cut their carbon emissions, are unsure where to start, don’t know where they can get help, and don’t have time to research a net-zero strategy. Furthermore, SMBs need such a strategy to be financially viable.
By James Patefield5 years ago in Earth
Necessity is The Mother
Events that change the course What started as a swim with the dolphins twenty years ago, became a life changing event that turned my focus toward becoming environmentally conscious. The experience set a plan for eco involvement for the future that would involve more than one project.
By Zel Harrison5 years ago in Earth
The Elephant Path
On A Sunday Afternoon, my youngest son pictured here, was about thirteen. Mother dear, who grabbed the elephants trunk incidentally is me.
By Black Dog Productions5 years ago in Earth
Plastic Wars: Simple Lifestyle Swaps Can Save Marine Lives
Hi, nice to meet you! Sy the Sea Turtle here. I know you’re probably wondering why I used a bold outer space-style video intro crawl to grab your attention if I live in the ocean. First, I’m a huge fan of big-screen intergalactic battles to save the universe. Second, I caught your attention, didn’t I?
By Lori Melton5 years ago in Earth
Skip the Aspirin; Stare at Trees
This is the story of why my family started a vegetable garden. I have never watched more news than in 2020/2021, which by chance I happened to see an interview with a doctor talking about the increase in depression due to Covid. She not only prescribed her patients medicine, but she also prescribed nature walks - and it seems for good reason. Being in nature has been scientifically proven to reduce stress, reduce anxiety, reduce depression, increase quality of life, increase happiness, improve cognition, and improve mental health.
By lolea5 years ago in Earth
Into the Deep We Go
Call her what you will; the sea, a river, the wellspring; her headwaters can unsurpassingly arouse, drown or crown you with her unrelenting invitation to come play with your better nature, making her nature your muse. It's only natural!
By Amber Brovelli5 years ago in Earth
Choices Inspire Movements
If we could choose things based solemnly on one factor then, how easy would it be to choose! But the truth is that there are always many things involved in our decisions. We can reach a can of tomatoes or go for the fresh tomatoes, but it is not as simple as that. Because we have to think about the price of the can vs that of the tomatoes, of the time it takes to prepare the tomato sauce vs just opening the can. And it gets even more complicated as we see the tomato sauce in glass jars and in plastic jars, the many brand options, and the quality of the ingredients. For pure environmental reasons we would have to consider where the tomatoes came from, whether they were grown with pesticides, how much demand there is for the product, whether the water used was recycled, whether renewable energy was used to transport it, and many more factors which would be imposible to calculate unless we grew our own tomatoes. How easy would it be if we could just take our jars of sauce and fill them up in a supply machine made of local ingredients? But the truth is that we are far from this alternate reality. Yet, if we want to propell the future, we need to make more environmentaly concious choices when it comes to daily decisions.
By Camila Carsolio5 years ago in Earth
Her Fabric Scraps
As a fashion designer, the quality of my tools is the foundation for the success of my projects. I’ve always valued a sharp pair of scissors and the fearlessness to make the first cut. Just like anything in life, you will never experience the beauty of the outcome if you don’t take the steps to turn a vision into reality. When I reflect upon my craft, I owe much of my creative style and prowess to my mother. My mom was deeply into fashion and would drag me to the mall with her every weekend. She would buy beautiful dresses and have a different vision for them. She would cut pieces off the dresses, so she could customize them for herself. Those scraps of fabric would end up in my room, wrapped elegantly around my Barbie bodies. I didn't know those little scraps of fabric were planting seeds for my future. That fashion design was where my heart explodes. She also made it a point to travel me around the world to allow me to see how other cultures dressed. I was blessed to travel to Africa when I was 14, which introduced me to the stunning quality and richness of African fabrics. I later studied fashion and graduated with a B.A fashion degree from university. That was the beginning of my forever thirst to create art.
By Teena5 years ago in Earth
Pikaia
I was Pikaia...I'm born from the ocean. I still swim and feel at home. Who got me out here? I'm just a remote accident, a survivor of extinction waves, those waves where many didn't. It just happened to be me. I could very well right now have to be hiding behind rocks to escape from dinosaur's teeth, or having to keep watching my back on the savannas. But just by luck, things took another way. Whose luck?. We conquered our greatness, but we compromised a whole planet on the way. It sounds a little like those promos, pay one and take five, but the opposite and in a biggest scale of numbers. In order to make this planet perfectly comfy, easy, and luxurious for us, and just for some of us, we sacrifice a brilliant creation of who knows who, and this part doesn't matter. What we can't deny, is that we all see a world made of Biodiversity, colors, incredible species hiding in the smallest places, intelligences expressed in the most astonish ways and far from being simply linked to brain size. Cognitively complex means of life that science tries to understand even today, and probably never will, including us. We watch a planet standing on its feet year after year of less care, fighting with the tools that this amazing ecological system has. And we live, day after day, without realizing we are in a war. We wake up, we look at the sky, and we say ''Look this beautiful morning'' and breathe a deep and fresh air being grateful for a new day. Just one second after, naively or not, we turn our backs and walk away starting the automatic environmentally harmful actions of our days, being on the wrong side of a war against ourselves.
By Melisa Zabala5 years ago in Earth
We all make a difference.
It is sometimes hard for me to believe that with billions of people in the world I can some how make a difference , but we do. With every single one of us implementing minor changes in our lives regardless of how little it is , it can significantly have an impact on our planet. I have always grown up with a strong connection to the earth. I first grew up in Nigeria before moving to New York. I spent a lot of time out doors and in the natural world talking to plants and trees. As a kid with a very vivid imagination , I was extremely fascinated by animals and would observe them a lot growing up. I remember getting annoyed with my friends for littering when I taught they could have easily thrown their trash out in the garbage or recycle , or for attempting a vegan/vegetarian diet in high school with little to no knowledge about the life style . This pull and connection that I have with the earth has led me to be more couscous about by carbon footprint on the planet has an adult now.
By Kehinde Oguntoyinbo5 years ago in Earth