Happy Earth Day! ~ (Every April 22nd)

[levya]

Did you know that Earth Day was started in 1970 to raise awareness of environmental policies? As a nature nerd, I want to find more ways to celebrate Earth Day so I wanna know what you all do to celebrate (if you do celebrate)!

I've done a couple litter cleanups with my neighbors in the past, but I didn't really plan anything this year. I might spend an hour or two turning off all my electronics and reading, since I have a couple solarpunk anthologies I've been meaning to read.
(I would go for a hike but I started a new job yesterday so I'm feeling tired today haha)

[kurohaato]

Happy Earth Day! I don't have any traditions necessarily, but late april in general is when I start doing work outside trying to get my garden ready. I plan on trying to find some native flowers to grow this year since I heard they're better for bees and other pollinators in addition to my usual tomatoes and moss roses.

[Melooon]

Happy earth day 

It didn't just start in 1970! It poped-off in 1970, the first earth day was the biggest mass protest in human history (and still is) with over 20 million people taking to the streets in the US  Even the president at the time (Richard Nixon) got his boots on and planted a tree in the Whitehouse garden  It was a very big deal!

Im pretty disappointed at the events around me; from what I can see there are no major things going on in the city I'm in - but I decided not to use the heating at all today and wear a blanket  My first thought was to close the forum today; but that would probably annoy people, and it would not actually be very environmental since the server this runs on is shared and would stay on anyway 

That raises some questions about the web revival and eco-friendliness - we rely on big data centres that are huge polluters. Even using old technology is not exactly energy efficient (although keeping old tech in use and out of e-waste dumps is great!). I wonder if there's more we could do though; things like encouraging hosting services that put effort into reducing emissions - as far as I know, Neocities has no environmental info - we have no idea what its impact is 

It's definitely a LOT better than things like blockchain services, but we do promote tech and tech is often a big polluter. My small pledge will be to provide environmental info in tutorials and hosting recommendations whenever possible; and also to consider where my sites are hosted!

[gridbug]

Happy earth day!

Happy earth day 

It didn't just start in 1970! It poped-off in 1970, the first earth day was the biggest mass protest in human history (and still is) with over 20 million people taking to the streets in the US  Even the president at the time (Richard Nixon) got his boots on and planted a tree in the Whitehouse garden  It was a very big deal!

Im pretty disappointed at the events around me; from what I can see there are no major things going on in the city I'm in - but I decided not to use the heating at all today and wear a blanket  My first thought was to close the forum today; but that would probably annoy people, and it would not actually be very environmental since the server this runs on is shared and would stay on anyway 

That raises some questions about the web revival and eco-friendliness - we rely on big data centres that are huge polluters. Even using old technology is not exactly energy efficient (although keeping old tech in use and out of e-waste dumps is great!). I wonder if there's more we could do though; things like encouraging hosting services that put effort into reducing emissions - as far as I know, Neocities has no environmental info - we have no idea what its impact is 

It's definitely a LOT better than things like blockchain services, but we do promote tech and tech is often a big polluter. My small pledge will be to provide environmental info in tutorials and hosting recommendations whenever possible; and also to consider where my sites are hosted!

This is an interesting topic for me, I took environmental and it's a very interesting area to think about. One of the big challenges is just how to decrease carbon emissions when so much of what individuals can do when so much power is wasted by companies, just lights being on in buildings, or for that matter inefficient power grids. Even so there's a lot that individuals can do that has an impact.

[invader_gvim]

Woah this was pinned for some reason on 10-2-24. I feel as if I have discovered something cool.

[xwindows]

I've meant to share this random-something here for some time now... but decided to wait until 22-Apr to do so. This seems to be a relatively-known Vocaloid song in Japan around one-something decade ago:

• Tsubasa Harihara feat. Crypton CV01, "Earth Day": Nicovideo (with animated MV), YouTube (audio-only)
  
  • This version (1)(2) was originally released 7-Jul-2012.

Happy Earth Day everyone.


P.S. I do think it's a shame that around here (Thailand), Earth Day is neither well known nor advocated for. Instead, the state and the presses promoted the competing Earth Hour event-- an event that I see as a token gesture to environmentalism at best (and not that many people actually participate nowadays in spite of such promotions).

(1) I have only recently learned that there was also a version sung and performed by the composer himself in his band too-- which its intro reminded me of old rock'n'roll music for some reason (2); and there was also an even older live-stage version as well (though the recording quality was... bad).

(2) Comparing performer credits between the band version and Vocaloid version however, revealed that the Vocaloid version has additional piano performer; while the band version was a pure strings band performance (2 guitars, 1 bass guitar, 1 drumset)-- like rock band of olden days.

(3) At the time of this writing, the version of this song I liked the most is the one done by a vocalist with stage name Amatsuki. Seems to be an elaborate commercially-released arrangement released without an MV; doesn't stop a fan from bolting the original MV on it however.

[candycanearter07]

I don't really (know how to) celebrate, but happy Earth Day!