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Earth Day 2021 Quiz

Earth Day 2021 Quiz (April 22, 2021)     Test your knowledge of a few Earth related topics on Earth Day. Note that when you Google some of these topics, you can get rather wide ranges of answers. Make sure you are looking at the US (if that is the target region), rather current information, and rather reliable sources. Or, just wait a day to see what we think the correct answer should be.  Answers will…

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Earth Day 2020, 50 years of Hind sight

It is the 50th Earth Day and the world is generally locked down while we deal with the Coronavirus pandemic — and how best to ramp back up the world economy. 50th Earth Day. April 22 2020 The pandemic is a serious and sobering aspect to the fun and excitement to an otherwise interesting and informative day of rallies, speeches waterway cleanups and more… Worldwide we are going on 3M positive COVID19 cases and nearing…

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13 of 14 warmest years on record occurred in 21st century – UN | Environment

13 of 14 warmest years on record occurred in 21st century – UN | Environment | theguardian.com: Ouch. As you look at the clock, you will see that we are only 14 years into the 21st Century. Yet we have 13 of the hottest 14 years in recorded history. You do have to take the whole of the earth into account, obviously, not just the USA, where we were ?fortunate? enough to have a exceptionally…

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World Water Day 2014 — March 22

Welcome to the World Water Day of 2014: This year’s theme is Water & Energy. By the Way: Earth Day is coming in a month, April 22!!! Look for Seminar information. See the 2011 SustainZine post related to World Water Day. Some info is borrowed here. World Water Day The 44th World Water Day (March 22, 2014): http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/   World Water Day can easily flooded past us without most of us hearing a drop about…

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EarthDay2013: Reflections on Sustainability: Earth Day, April 22, 2013

Reflections on Sustainability: Earth Day, April 22, 2013 (www.EarthDay.org) … (or International Mother Earth Day) Earth Day 2013: The Face of Climate Change It’s not so much that people don’t care. . . Being green, and being sustainable, is something that we all would happily do, if it wasn’t inconvenient to do so. And if it was easy to do. And if we knew the best place to start. And if it wasn’t too complicated to do…

Happiness Happens Month… Diversity… Innovation..

Happiness Happens Month This month is Happiness Happens Month.  http://sohp.com/society-celebrations/happiness-happens-month/ Sponsored by the Secret Society of Happy People. www.SOHP.com The idea is that everybody complains about stuff, but we should have a day (Aug 8) and a month (August) where people don’t complain. Nobody talks about being sick or discriminated against or … Well, you get the picture. BUT, don’t tell anybody, it’s a secret. Oh, and another secret, It’s rumored that this society has…