Today, April 22nd, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Earth Day
A very special anniversary, on which we are experiencing something unseen.
This year I cannot say that Every day is Earth Day , because what we are experiencing this year is something that we have never seen.
I had some special program in my mind for the Earth Day, when a couple of month ago I was starting to design, for the fiftieth anniversary, something related to the LocaGuidesCleanTheWorld program.
A few days later, on February 22nd, my area was Locked down, first one outside Asia. Yes, exactly two month ago, the life in my little world changed, the life in our planet changed. Not only for me.
Two month later, we are all living in a different world.
Sometimes it seems that nothing happen, some of us want to go back to our normal life as soon as possible, some of us started to think …
Will the world be the same, when this terrible moment will be over?
Something will be the same for sure, but other things will be totally different.
- We are skipping a season: on the North Hemisphere, we will pass from Winter to Summer, while in the South is will be exactly the opposite. No photos of blossoming trees, no photos or red leaves this year
- The pollution is dropped down dramatically, and we are experiencing clean air and water, a blue sky and fishes on the Venetian canals.
- The silence is deafening, in the once crowded cities, or along the highways that we remember full of traffic. Acoustic pollution is disappeared, and it is normal to see animals walking in the middle of the streets.
- Waste and plastic remain on the beaches that we have not yet managed to clean
Did we learned something from all this? Myself, I learned:
- The value of the friendship, and how much lucky we are to be able remain in touch Virtually. The amount of meet-up that we are experiencing now in Connect is something that I have never seen.
- The possibility to work from home, saving time for me
- To Explore the world virtually and, as a Local Guide, I learned how to share my world, creating tours to share
- I have learned that reducing the pollution is possible. Nature uses unpredictable ways to teach us, doesn’t it?
This is what I learned, what about you?
What does it mean, Share Your Action for the Planet, while we are locked down?
This is a good point, and I would love to read your opinion about that.
This is what I do:
- I’m trying to reduce energy consumption. I spent my first three day of the lock down on the roof of my house, to clean the Solar Panel. Working from home I can reduce the consumption of energy (less fuel). This is something we need to think about.
- I learned to shop more rationally. Before the virus I made purchases more or less every two days, now I have reduced to once a week, with greater attention to what I buy, and the expiration dates of the products
- I pay more attention to the packaging of the products I buy, trying when possible to buy fresh. Sound weird to say this during a lock down, isn’t it? Well, in this period we have a lot of home delivery, also for food, specially vegetables coming directly from the farms. Healthy, and with less plastic footprints
- I am sharing my world through photos and post. I consider this like an exchange of experience
The sun will raise again, and we will be able to go out, even if the Life will not be the same.
How will our life change?
This depends above all on us, on the choices that, as a global community, we will be able to make. Keeping the good part of what we are learning is indeed possible, to save energy and time, to maintain the planet clean, to reduce the pollution, fighting in this way the global warming.
The choice is in our hands. Which kind of planet do we want? The one here below?
- Myself, I can’t wait to go out to complete the clean’up of the beaches, and to restart to fight against the plastic.
- I want to improve my communication in this, to engage more Local Guides on the LocaGuidesCleanTheWorld program.
- I want to share more and more the beauty, to show what we will loose, if we will not be able to win the battle against the climate change
What about you?
Share here what you did for the planet in the past, or what you plan to do in the future.
You can write a post using the hashtag #EarthDay2020, or share your tough here.
Don’t forget to tag me 
