The reading on individualization brings back memories from my youth when my elementary school class in Redmond spent a day planting trees and learning about Earth Day.\u00a0 While it brought awareness to our class such an activity really didn\u2019t make any sort of difference in our ecological footprint or that of our community.\u00a0 A few years before that our entire school had observed Earth Day by having every student release a helium-filled balloon with a notecard attached, the idea being that the balloons would fly off and come back to the ground far away and people could mail back the notecards, letting us know how far they had travelled in order to show us that we could have an influence outside of our local community.\u00a0 This was around 1987; the idea of engaging in mass-littering in the name of Earth Day apparently didn\u2019t seem ironic back then.\u00a0 If a school were to attempt the same thing today it would probably make the national news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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