Where were you on Earth Day?

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<p>I remember the first Earth Day, in 1970!- I was in jr high & we spent the day picking up Pixie stix wrappers out of the school grounds.</p>

<p>[Earth</a> Day 2010 - Resource Guide](<a href=“http://earthday.envirolink.org/]Earth”>http://earthday.envirolink.org/)</p>

<p>Today I am going to be here [Duwamish</a> Alive! Restore Our River- People for Puget Sound](<a href=“http://pugetsound.org/events/duwamishalive]Duwamish”>http://pugetsound.org/events/duwamishalive)</p>

<p>After I have another coffee- this allergy medicine is making me sleepy</p>

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<p>I was also in junior high and tried to get my classmates to ride bikes to school. I think about 5 of us actually did it. (it was a little difficult to ride a bike in really short mini skirt.)</p>

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<p>I was in junior high and we picked up trash at the vacant lot next to a supermarket.
Spent the next couple years sorting cans and bottles at a newly founded community recycling center-- thanks to this woman:</p>

<p>[Naperville</a> Century Walk](<a href=“http://www.centurywalk.org/art/art_details.cfm?artID=23]Naperville”>http://www.centurywalk.org/art/art_details.cfm?artID=23)</p>

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<p>Right here in Wisconsin- our senator (Gaylord Nelson) was the one who set it in motion. Good as well as bad politicians in the state’s history.</p>

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<p>I only existed in the Catholic sense of the word.</p>

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<p>What a bunch of young-uns. I was a senior in high school, and lucky I lived to go to college. I picked up litter along a very major thoroughfare in St. Louis, where no human being ever actually walks. </p>

<p>I spent this one helping to run a used children’s books sale as a fundraiser for our public library. Not very earthy, but hopefully useful.</p>

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<p>I was a freshman in college, and wasn’t particularly interested, but my roommate marched…somewhere. Between realizing this was the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and then hearing today that Al Pacino was almost 70, I’m feeling incredibly ancient.</p>

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<p>I was actually even older…the first Earth Day was during my senior year in college. I remember two things distinctly: cooking potatoes in a pit in the ground…they came out hard as rocks; and tie-dying my school logo tee shirt. I have that shirt to this day and D even wore it a few times in her neo hippie days in high school.</p>

<p>Just about two weeks later was Kent State. I remember that distinctly, also.</p>

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<p>I was on the junior high newspaper staff, and we tried to get everyone to ride their bike or walk to school.
If you know anything about the hills in Bellevue, and the state of the roads then, you know how imposible riding bikes was… those of us who just walked to and from school certainly felt we had done something!</p>

<p>For the next 5 or 6 years, my Camp Fire group provided and took care of some of the first recycling bins available in the neighborhood. We printed big signs about how to recycle, but ended up dealing with lots of dirty nasty stuff. (Cat food cans,anyone?) The economics of the times were not wonderful, but we ended up funding a senior year trip skiing for spring break on our recycling money.</p>

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<p>I was a freshman in high school. I remember the seniors on student council urging everyone to walk or bike that day. It was a gorgeous spring day, so I decided to walk the 6 miles back to my home. I still remember how pleasant it was. Coincidentally, my first child was born on Earth Day. She’ll be 24 on Thursday.</p>