Monday, April 9, 2012

Earth Day


April is Earth Day (April 21st) Month and a very important month for conservation.  In grade school, we celebrated Earth Day by ordering t-shirts with animals and “save the ___” slogans.  We did art projects and had an “environmental” lesson on Earth Day.  Earth Day is much more then new shirts and a one day focus of environmental tid-bits.  Earth Day was established in 1970 by founder Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator.  The first Earth Day brought all cultural backgrounds, political parties, and personal war opinions together for one cause.  As years progressed, some years focused on different conservation efforts and clean environmental campaigns.  Many events are scheduled on Earth Day to celebrate going green, recycling, and planting.  I have attached the link below which will lead you to the Cincinnati Earth Day celebration at Sawyer Point.  This year’s theme is “One Earth…One Chance”.  The event will have many vendors with hands-on displays, animals, creations from recycled materials, and much more.  The main aim for Earth Day is to remind everyone of the constant fight for a clean environment and educate on environmental changes such as climate change. 


Seeing that one main event during Earth Day is planting trees, I wanted to post this article.  While researching articles, I came across the below link to the article about a company making guitars from endangered trees.  Having owned and played a guitar in the past, I feel somewhat guilty.  One of the trees included in this article is the Madagascar Ebony which is responsible for the beautiful eye catching fretboard of the Gibson guitars.

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