So, tomorrow’s the big day. Come Sunday you can go right back to living in blissful ignorance of the giant ball of rock and fossil and magma that keeps you from floating aimlessly through space with its gravitational pull, but tomorrow belongs to Earth. Show her you care.
· If you want to get serious about doing your part, Envirolink offers a calendar of international events: There are litter cleanup days, nature walks, a few beverage can “roundups” and one EXPO (all in caps.)
· Seattle has “Duwamish Alive!” a celebratory event to restore the oddly named river, which offers the chance to engage in mulching.
· A school in Fort Worth is hosting the “Woodway/Albertsons Earth Day Grocery Bag Project,” in which students will decorate hundreds of grocery bags with Earth Day messages and Albertson’s will then use them to bag shoppers’ groceries all weekend. And then shoppers will use them to pick up their dogs’ turds. Viva recycling!
· But the zaniest night of fun-filled festivities will undoubtedly be Singapore’s “A Close-up On Avian Influenza.” That’s gonna be righteous.
· My advice to Nevadans: Watch out for the Earthfaire in Las Vegas – I tend to avoid any fair that’s spelled “faire,” it usually means bad Shakespearean accents and kidney pies and people calling you “m’lord.”
· New York’s Central Park will host a “large-scale theatrical puppet show that brings to life the epic story of NYC's water supply.” The fifty-foot alligators in the sewer sequence may frighten younger audience members and bums.
· Watch “Too Hot Not To Handle” on HBO. Like last November’s comedy/variety show “Earth To America,” it’s another television event produced by über-activist Laurie David. But this one won’t have Jason Alexander and a chorus of dancing gay men singing “It’s Too Darn Hot!” I promise.
I personally will be attending an art show of giant paintings made out of recycled billboard material (such as the one pictured above, by Jenn Ackerman – but instead of 80 by 80 pixels, it’s more like eight by ten feet.) And as I mentioned previously, whatever you end up doing tomorrow – even if it’s getting drunk on whatever green liquid you can find (Midori, absinthe, shamrock shake spiked with Jim Beam,) think of Gaylord Nelson and the national environmental awakening he inspired.
