Earth Day, Oh Happy Day!
In honor of Earth Day, we are sharing this beautiful photo, taken in the Sierra Nevadas; it reminds Susan of some of her happiest moments being in the mountains hiking and backpacking with friends.
Every year on Earth Day people around the globe volunteer and share messages about improving care for our local and global environment. In addition to being essential for sustaining our lives, this beautiful planet is key to our happiness and health. Earth Day is a great opportunity for each of us as individuals to consider our personal daily habits in connection to the earth, our health and happiness.
The cover of this month’s Outside magazine states: “Science’s Newest Miracle Drug is FREE”. The article goes on to describe how doctors are beginning to prescribe time outside to help individuals improve their wellness and manage depression and anxiety. Helping others on a regular basis also helps improve one’s health and happiness because of the natural hormones our body releases when we do. The platform we are building will help people develop this healthy habit! We hope you will be one of the first people experience the “Joy of Giving” using our system by signing up for our email list to be notified when it is available.
Back to Earth Day, daily life practices done by billions of people have an enormous impact on the earth’s environment. Today, people are making personal choices such as eliminating their use of single use plastic, taking the Swear Jar Challenge, recycling, consuming food that is locally and sustainably produced, purchasing used consumer goods when possible and sustainably produced goods when buying new, eliminating the use of acrylic clothing in your wardrobe to prevent micro plastics from being created and entering our water systems when you wash them. What personal choices can you make?
This year, the Earth Day movement is preparing for the 50th anniversary in 2020. To celebrate this milestone, they have created a citizen science campaign challenge: the Earth Day Challenge. Citizen science involves members of the public in scientific research to meet real world goals. Members of the public collect and share information at scales and resolutions previously unachievable. This year hackathons will be hosted around the world to help create technologies that support the citizen science. In Spring 2020, a new mobile app and global data collection campaign will launch with the objective of collecting one billion data points by Earth Day that year.
