50th Earth Day Good News!
Happy Earth Day! Usually an all-school cleanup is a reminder of making our world a better place. A lot of progress has been made since the first Earth Day was held in 1970.
Here’s a good summary of why Earth Day started to think about the many ways our Earth has improved in the last 50 years: https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/21839/when-rivers-caught-fire-a-brief-history-of-earth-day
Remember the ozone hole concern? It’s getting smaller https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/videos/the-ozone-hole
Looking for some things to celebrate, how about:
https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/good-news-april
Looking for ways to be a part or things to do with your kids at home:
Weston’s own Land’s S
ake Farm is posting daily activities: https://landssake.org/events/earth-day/
Fun suggestions to do with your family today or any day this spring from a great local land trust: https://www.svtweb.org/earth-day-your-backyard
You, too can do an individual clean up: https://cleanup.earthday.org/pages/find-a-cleanup
Janet Kresl Moffat WHS Science Teacher
