Earth Day 2020: How Will You Celebrate?

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and although plant swaps and festivals have been canceled around the world, there are still many ways to celebrate the earth and take action to protect it! Some of the items below have designated dates and times, but others can be used whenever you want - Earth Day every day! Click on each heading below to learn more.

Earth Day Live

In this three-day livestream (April 22-24, join activists, celebrities, musicians, and others in community and hope for the future.

• Day 1 (Strike) - amplifying the voices of indigenous leaders and youth climate activists.
• Day 2 (Divest) - reprogramming the economy to work for people and planet rather than polluters and politicians.
• Day 3 (Vote) - the importance of voting for our future.

24 Hours of Action

EarthDay.org has compiled a list of actions you can take today. Whether you have five minutes or a whole afternoon, there's something for everyone here!

Lights Out, Tune In

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley invites you to join them at 8 p.m. (Eastern) in Lights Out, Tune In. Turn off all the lights and spend an hour focusing on the climate crisis before us - whether in nature, by reading inspiring books or articles, through prayer or meditation, or with any other contemplative act.

Free Resources to Celebrate Earth Day

This list compiled by Climate Action Alliance of the Valley includes calls to action, workshops and webinars, music, art, articles, and books (including free ebooks!).

Happy Earth Day, and Welcome!

It is fitting that Earth Day directly follows Easter this year. Yesterday we celebrated new life, and today we celebrate creation. I also thought it a fitting day to launch a new sustainable and ethical living blog. So, no matter who you are or where you find yourself today, welcome to Enough.

Enough is a blog about living abundantly while treading lightly on - and even nurturing - the earth. Posts will typically cover practical, everyday topics like waste-free grocery shopping, reducing plastic in the kitchen (and around the home), natural cleaning, and conserving electricity and water. There will even be the occasional "ecofiction roundup" - a list of recommended books along with mini reviews.

Why Enough? Speak it with exasperation, frustration, anger: Enough pollution. Enough violence. Enough destruction. Speak it with temperance: Enough food. Enough clothes. Enough stuff. Speak it with the joy of abundance: I have enough. There is enough. I can do enough.

It is easy to fall into despair in the face of food grown with poisons, wars over finite resources, plastic filling the oceans, and species disappearing. But there is still beauty and hope to be found, and even if you feel that radical change is beyond your control, everyone can do something, and little things add up. It is enough.