Day 15 – Do Beautiful Things!

This post is a part of the “15 Days of Green Tips for 15 years of Keep Carroll Beautiful” Virtual Birthday Celebration. Every day between April 8 and April 22, a member of KCB Board, Staff, or the public, will share their favorite tips on how to Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle!

Happy 15th Birthday to Keep Carroll Beautiful & Happy 50th Earth Day! Today, Tiffany Harris, KCB Board Member and member of the UWG Sustainability Council and the Sustainability Executive Task Force, has a few ideas on how to celebrate Earth Day 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/keepcarrollbeautiful/videos/4270508579641322/

Celebrate Earth Day Links:

• Native Plant Finder: https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder/
• Disney Magic of Nature: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/04/its-earth-week-and-were-bringing-you-the-disneymagicofnature/
• Explore National Parks from Home: https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/national-parks/virtual-national-parks-tours
• Virtual Tour of the Great Barrier Reef With David Attenborough: https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/tv-movies/david-attenborough-narrates-great-barrier-reef-virtual-tour
• Virtual Earth Day Activities: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/earth-day-activities

50 Ideas for 50th Earth Day with Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of actions you can take to improve and beautify your community environment while staying safe and healthy at home. Continue reading to see how you can participate and make our planet a better place.

https://www.keepgeorgiabeautiful.org/blog/2020/04/01/50-ways-to-make-earth-month-count

#DoBeautifulThings with Keep America Beautiful

OUR EARTH IS BEAUTIFUL AND SO ARE THE PEOPLE.

Celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day with us and others who #DoBeautifulThings.

https://kab.org/dobeautifulthings/

Earth Day History:

Earth Day 1970 gave a voice to an emerging public consciousness about the state of our planet — 

In the decades leading up to the first Earth Day, Americans were consuming vast amounts of leaded gas through massive and inefficient automobiles. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of the consequences from either the law or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. Until this point, mainstream America remained largely oblivious to environmental concerns and how a polluted environment threatens human health.

However, the stage was set for change with the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. The book represented a watershed moment, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries as it raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and the inextricable links between pollution and public health.

History of Earth Day: https://www.earthday.org/history/