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The old button from the Environmental Club days which I just happened to find on Earth Day! It is a little beat up (particularly the ends of the ribbon), but no worse for the wear, I think. And it is one of the few items that I have left from those days, so it carries a lot of great memories for me! Nothing Changes Until You Do!
Here is a picture of a very similar logo, with the same message, that was on the t-shirt that I purchased from the BCC Environmental Club and, if memory serves me correctly, may even have helped to make. There were a few projects like that which club members, myself included, were regularly involved with. It has been so long, however, that I no longer recall specifically if I actually helped to make these or not, although I do believe so, since I remember seeing the process of the t-shirts being dyed. In any case, I loved this t-shirt, and have kept it ever since, even if I do not regularly wear it. Since it was part of my experience with the BCC Environmental Club days, as well as more generally having an environmental theme, it seemed appropriate to share it here.
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
~John F. Kennedy
"The earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself."
- Native American Philosophy (most often attributed to Chief Seattle)
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
~ Chief Si’ahl (Seattle)
“Now polluters are looked upon as ordinary Joes just doing their jobs. In the future, they will be looked upon as swine”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Ran into this Earth Day/Kurt Vonnegut link days after Earth Day, and then was not sure what to do with it.
Yet, it is only one day after the Earth Day that Vonnegut originally "celebrated" - if a pessimistic man like Vonnegut could even be said to be "celebrating" anything - and so it seemed fitting to honor him and his memory, as well as his contributions and thoughts on trying to make this planet a better and more livable place, today.
Earth Day in 1970 was on April 30th. That was 50 years ago today.
Tomorrow is May Day, the first day of May. It, too, has some significance.
As a week since Earth Day has now passed (and it was the strangest, quietest one that I can remember, or even imagine, for now), I am beginning to wrap these posts up with some thoughts on the occasion by one of my favorite authors, the late great Kurt Vonnegut.
As a week since Earth Day has now passed (and it was the strangest, quietest one that I can remember, or even imagine, for now), I am beginning to wrap these posts up with some thoughts on the occasion by one of my favorite authors, the late great Kurt Vonnegut.
Here is a link to Kurt Vonnegut celebrating Earth Day.
Kurt Vonnegut “Celebrates” Earth Day “Now polluters are looked upon as ordinary Joes just doing their jobs. In the future, they will be looked upon as swine” by ANNA MAYO APRIL 22, 2019:
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