The Unofficial Earth Day Flag

Happy Earth Day! Can you believe that it has been almost 40 years since the very first Earth Day celebrations? According to Wiki sources Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970. Since that time many countries have joined in on Earth Day festivities.

Are you planning on doing anything special to mark today? When the kids were smaller I liked to take them to events around the city that promoted environmental causes. I hope that they in turn will pass this tradition onto their own children someday.

"EARTH DAY is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

EARTH DAY draws on astronomical phenomena in a new way – which is also the most ancient way – using the vernal Equinox, the time when the Sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length in all parts of the Earth. To this point in the annual calendar, EARTH DAY attaches no local or divisive set of symbols, no statement of the truth or superiority of one way of life over another. But the selection of the March Equinox makes planetary observance of a shared event possible, and a flag which shows the Earth as seen from space appropriate."

- Margaret Mead