Earth Day

I 've just found out that it is Earth Day today! According to Wikipedia, 'Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the earth's environment', and it started in 1970. Google has lots of ideas for going green.

As I live with a daughter who is of this turn of mind and heart, I guess we already do much that they suggest, recycling, energy saving light bulbs, etc. There's always more my family and I can do, though, and our new garden is not yet productive, sadly, although Katie has a tomato plant growing in a pot on the kitchen window sill.

But as 'To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth' is the Anglican' Communion's 5th mark of mission, perhaps churches could think about ways we might celebrate this day in future, maybe with a fun and feast day, or by churchyard guerrilla gardening, or, as our diocesan Environment Adviser suggests, we could all get up close and personal with the (at least at present in the South of England) rather dried up grass and soil we normally step on and forget. Me? - I'm just going outside from our office to hug a tree! (Yes, really!)