This Earth Day, we bring you 10 multi-faceted ways that you can get involved. Earth Day marks a time to celebrate our inherent connections to how our lives are woven into the web of life. This web stretches across the globe and integrates us within its pulse. Some days, it may seem like we are unraveling, but still we are nonetheless intricately intertwined. The pain runs parallel to the joy and each reminds us to shed the destructive negatives and work towards the positive. Each Earth Day we renew our hope to create positive changes within our lives.

• 1) Inspired by Wisconsin Senator Gaylor Nelson, Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22nd, 1970. 20 million people and thousands of schools and local communities organized at an incredible grass-roots level and participated in the event around the nation. Read a first hand account written by Gaylord Nelson.

Learn more about a bioregional lifestyle!
• 2) Read, Learn, How To at ErraticImpact.com
• 3) Commit to go to the 9th Annual Bioregional Congress in July
• 4)Start your own discussion group by using curricula developed by the Northwest Earth Institute
• 5) Incorporate Wendell Berry's Considerations - an easy list he published in the Utne Reader of ways we can all work together.
• 6) Now is the time to educate ourselves about environmental issues on the local and global scale. Let us train our hands to work together in new patterns, new ways that bring us closer to living sustainable lifestyles that manifest locally and globally. Live the dream right here at home in Portland by signing up for the Village Building Convergence happening in May!


• 7) Forward the message on to a Friend farther abroad:
  • Internationally we actually have a chance to celebrate Earth Day more than once per year. International Earth Day is celebrated on the spring vernal equinox rather than on April 22nd as it is in the United States.
  • Earthday.net publishes information about Earth Day celebrations all around the nation.

Closer to Home:
• 8) This Saturday, Portland's very own Earth Day Celebration is taking place in a Celebration of Localization
• 9) Check out our community calendar for other wonderful events this weekend and beyond.


• 10) If you love the work that we do consider making a donation to see this work continue.

Alright everyone get out there and get involved!

Happy Earth Day!
from Zeratha
and Everyone at
The Dirt!
a publication of
Spreading Roots, Spring Forth