Hi Everyone! Happy earth day!


I woke up this today and felt the excitement that most kids feel on Christmas morning. Just two years ago, I would have not cared at all about today. It would’ve just been another school day… but so much has change since then. Now, I wake up and feel ready. Ready to do something. I’m not quite sure what, But I know that today will be a great day. 


I just realized that it’s been a year now since I first learned about global warming. One year ago, my mom rented “an inconvenient truth,” and got me to watch it. I was actually reluctant at first. It just seemed like another boring documentary. But I was wrong. The movie completely changed me. I watched the whole thing twice in a row, right there on the spot. I knew I needed to do something. 


And after being involved for a while, I’ve realized that the movie has been influential to a lot of other people to. It’s amazing how one man can change the minds of millions of people.     






Really, as a nation, we’ve really gone though a huge change. 30 years ago, nobody celebrated earth day. It was just a hippie thing back then (or so I’m told. That was about 117 years before I was born.)


But now… Everyone cares. A business can’t get by very good without making a “green” ad or making a “green” product. Google, Youtube, Yahoo, they all have “green” logos today (I encourage you to check them out, they’re pretty cool.)


 Everyone suddenly wants everything they buy to be green. They suddenly want to get rid of all their light bulbs and replace them with CFLs. They suddenly want to shop local, and bring their own cloth bags. They suddenly feel proud driving a hybrid car. And it’s really all because of on man. Al Gore changed the face of this nation. If it weren’t for him, we would probably still be driving away from Target in our SUV with the back seats piled high with plastic bags. (*gasp*)

So, America, thank you. Thank you for watching Al Gore’s movie. Thank you for buying green. Thank you for changing your light bulbs, for shopping local, for bringing your own bags.Thank you, America, for caring. We really are starting to get somewhere.


We can do this. We can stop global warming.


And again, happy earth day!