veggieprincess Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 So I attended just 1 Earth Day event last year and this year I went to 2. I REALLY expected a kick ass year for Environmentalists and for participation because you can't look at anything without the "Go Green" buzz. And hey, I absolutely love that its gone mainstream... we're all in this together. But I was COMPLETELY dissappointed in the Earth Day events that I attended. One was at a huge college by me, UCIrvine. Last year there was MORE participation, more booths talking about a variety of environmental topics. I expected a better year this time around and was completely disappointed. I ended up educating the Global Warming booth on methane and how going Vegan postiively effects climate change. He had no clue. I did ALOT of educating and zero learning... which was great, I guess, but I did want to feel inspired by some things I saw and I didn't. I attended one yesterday as well at a very hip, well known outdoor mall where it seems all the cool people of OC hang... and again, was highly disappointed. There was maybe 3 to 4 booths talking about the environment and the rest were just pushing merchandise mostly unrelated to environmental issues. I don't know if I just chose poor venues or what, but I was so disappointed. I wanted to grab a cardboard table, a folding chair and just start talking to people about what they can do to help. Seems alot of people came for answers and nothing I saw gave them any hope, including me. Very, very disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsorlando Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Tonight I'm going to a vegan outreach talk. I hope I can get someone to go with me, that isn't vegan. This is the first year that I have actually found some interesting events for earth day. Sorry your earth day events didn't go as planned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillipeb Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 We are having our animal rights conferance the same day as the earth day jam which is usually very cool so i will see whats up this weekend. I totally got dressed at 8am in my finest and headed down to where the animal rights conferance was suppose to be but turns out i was a week early. Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 The Earth Day events I went to were sparsely attended ( bad weather one day ). It seems most of the tables at Earth Day events are for selling products, even worse products that have nothing to do with the environment, just usual carinval/festival crud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DV Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 I think this link to an article posted by Offense74 might help explain some of the pathetic attitudes we all witnessed this Earth day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beforewisdom Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 (edited) I only read offense's quote from Pollan, but I completely disagree. My personality is not that of cheerleader's by any means. Which is good, because I look horrible in those skirts -- tree trunks for legs. Anyway, I found the end to An Inconvenient Truth inspiring. I even remember thinking at the time how I loved it because those films just grind your down without giving you something you can do and An Inconvenient Truth gave you something that you could do. I remember thinking that the suggestion Al Gore made were practical. They did not take up a lot of time, the suggestions did not cost a lot of money, and if large numbers of people did them would make a difference. I spent about $30 for new light bulbs and power strips. I took about 15 min on a step ladder changing my light bulbs. I spent another 15 min signing up for wind electricity for my apartment. I saw results on my next electricity bill. My costs went down by about $5 a month. All easy stuff with tangible results....very motivating. My personal theory about Earth Day is that it is an old hippie event started by hippies, abandoned by hippies taken over by the funnel cake vendors and the festival crowd who don't care enough to promote it. Boy, am I a grouch this morning Edited April 23, 2008 by beforewisdom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DV Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 C'mon BeforeWisdom, you are NOT allowed to disagree with me before reading the whole article. I'm also grouchy this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Happy Earth Day everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubby2112 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Our festival was rained out. We set all the tents up and had to take them down almost immediately. I was all in my VBBF t-shirt, armed with vegan literature and baked goods (one vegan here did an amazing amount of baking). We are going to have a belated one next Tuesday. It is going to be better for it. We are determined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Nice! Keep after it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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