On this #earthday, you can start doing your part. Filter your home water and buy glass or metal containers to port it around instead of buying water filled plastic bottles that are barely and rarely recycled. Buy your meat and fish wrapped in paper, not plastic film on a bed of styrofoam. Tell your local restaurant to use the new paper and compostable boxes instead of often black plastic (totally non-recyclable) containers or styrofoam clamshells. The more people that choose, the more the people who want to engage with us change.
Aujoud'hui c'est la journée de la Terre ! #EarthDay2024
🌍La science est claire: une croissance économique infinie n'est pas possible sur une planète dont les ressources sont limitées. Cette obsession irréaliste de croissance économique a fait échoué les accords de Paris (1/9). @ScientistRebellion
Grateful for having lived in Nevada (Desert! Sierra! Snow!) and California (Ocean! Hills & mountains! Agricultural fields! Rivers! Redwoods!). Miss the coast but happy to live in sunshine.
Grateful for all living creatures which call Earth home, especially birds, & most especially seabirds (Pelicans! Albatrosses!)
Grateful for this little plot of land and comfortable house, in this county & state, in this hemisphere, on this amazing, precious planet. #EarthDay2024
That's how much I'm in love with nature and Mother Earth.
When you love something/someone you take care of it, you look for it, you protect it. If we truly love nature, let's do what is in our power to preserve it. Without it, we are absolutely nothing. 🌳🌵🌲🌴
This #EarthDay2024 I'd like to introduce you a friend of mine. World, please meet "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" which will look more like a book & less like a binder in a patch of daffodils when it's released by IslandPress in fall 2024!
With the future of our planet at stake, President Biden is addressing the climate crisis with the most ambitious climate agenda in history, helping to keep the planet livable for future generations. #BidenHarris2024#EarthDay2024#VoteBlueToSaveThePlanet#VoteBlue
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #EarthDay2024: #Tailtiu gave her life to clearing ‘a great plain’. To Ali Isaac „it seems possible that the great plain referred to signifies the landscape; Tailtiu came from the great plain and spent her life serving it, and returned to it after death. She is a daughter of the landscape. In other words, not a harvest goddess, but an earth goddess. She shaped the land just as the #Cailleach did."
Source: aliisaac+the-cailleach-project@substack.com
#MythologyMonday for #EarthDay2024: When the Milesian invaders were met by three goddesses or queens of the Tuatha Dé Danann, each of whom announced herself as ruler of the land. First was Banba, who according to the Book of Invasions met the Milesians at Slieve Mis in Co. Kerry, although some sources say that she was found on the plain from which the royal hill of Tara rises; she promised the Milesians happiness and wealth so long as the land bore her name.
Source: Patricia Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore
#MythologyMonday for #EarthDay2024: When the Milesian invaders were met by three goddesses or queens of the Tuatha Dé Danann, each of whom announced herself as ruler of the land. Second was Fódla, who met the invaders at Slieve Felim, a mountain in Co. Limerick, or on nearby Mauher Slieve. Like her sister Banba before, she promised the Milesians happiness and wealth so long as the land bore her name. Fódla’s name means “unplowed land”.
Source: Patricia Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore
#MythologyMonday for #EarthDay2024: The green island at the far western periphery of Europe bears the name of its earth goddess, #Ériu. Because Ériu promised greater prosperity than did her sisters, the chief bard of the Milesians, Amairgin, decided to call the island after Ériu. It was at the sacred central mountain, #Uisneach, that Ériu greeted the invaders. One, Donn mac Míled, replied to her demands with insults, and Ériu calmly sentenced him to death; he drowned shortly thereafter, indicating that Ériu had control over the seas as well as the land.
Source: Patricia Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #EarthDay2024: Uisneach hill was the site of the greatest ancient Bealtaine gathering. The double fires of #spring at the spiritual center of Ireland symbolized the eyes of the earth goddess Ériu opening to the new season.
Source: Patricia Monaghan The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog