Earth Day is 45 years old this week. That’s a lot of years promoting a message of caring for our environment and ensuring a safe future for our children and grandchildren. Yet here we are facing ever greater climate disruptions with precious little progress on solving these problems. Rather than give up in despair, each person in each house in each community can start to solve local problems by paying attention and getting to work. Earth Day activities are all round us this month but it’s important not only to go see the turtles at the local environmental center, but also to reduce your own waste stream, recycle and reuse what you can, bring your own bags to shop, plant that seed, grow that tree, teach your children, learn from your children, follow important policy discussions and vote for those local and national representatives that reflect a way forward into a positive future. Forth-five years is not such a long time but in that time the environment has gotten worse, the outcry from the scientific community has gotten louder and bolder, and we can no longer afford to sit and watch the news unfold on TV – we need to become the news: demanding action, taking action, being the change we want to see. The theme for this year's Earth Day activities says it best: It's our turn to lead.
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