Happy Earth Day 2016

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#EarthDay
#Rooting4Tree
#Vancouver
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http://earthdayparade.ca/more-info

This year's event will be happening at 1PM on Sunday, April 24th 2016!

The parade will begin at Commercial and Broadway at 1PM (view)

And the festival continues at Grandview Park 2:00 to 5:00 pm (view)

See the list of performers at the bottom of this page. http://earthdayparade.ca/more-info

As always, the event is family friendly, and youth from the across the Lower Mainland are welcome and encouraged to come.

We hope to make this the most colourful and exciting Earth Day yet, but we can’t do it without you. 


So be creative and come out with floats, costumes, signs, banners, props or anything else you can imagine to show your commitment to the environment and creating a better world!

Earth Day
https://earthday.ca

#Rooting4Trees with Earth Day Canada

Deb Doncaster, President of Earth Day Canada, meets Chatterer the Red Squirrel to talk about the exciting new #Rooting4Trees campaign. The goal: to plant 25,000 trees in April (Earth Month) to celebrate Earth Day Canada's 25th anniversary! Deb tells Chatterer how to help by visiting http://www.EarthDay.ca to take part in a crowd-planting initiative - each donation, even just $10, will ensure more trees are planted AND you’ll get some awesome rewards, too! Yes, Chatterer, even better than acorns… See more about trees at http://www.chatterer.ca. Video created in partnership with http://www.Kidoons.com

Wanta change the world?

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be

Produced by Chipotle, the film was created by Academy Award®–winning Moonbot Studios and is set to a remake of the song “Pure Imagination” from the 1971 film classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Beautifully performed by Grammy Award®–winning artist Fiona Apple, the song is available for download on iTunes.

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I don't know about the rest of you, but lately are you freaked out about everything you eat and feed your kids.

I am. 

On one hand you may think I've just been on the internet too much. It's true. There is so much info out there...and so much of it is not good news. It's all don't eat this, be careful of these 10 worse foods, watch out for the water, the list goes on...making us paranoid about everything we put into our body, but also pushing...pushing hard for change.

I tell my little girl, all the time, of things we have to be careful not to eat and what to watch out for.

Problem is we are on a very tight budget and let's face it, mass market food is cheap...so we end up buying stuff I don't want to.  Sadly we live right by the ocean and we can't harvest anything as it's all toxic because it's a huge port filled with ships and boats.

I'm trying hard to change things, I'm going back to school and then hopefully we will move where there is a place I can have a garden...those are the dreams. My dad had it right in the beginning, he had a little hobby farm..oh how I wish I could go back in time and learn and get that place for myself.

But we can't go back...only forward and thus we need to learn from our mistakes and move on.

I really love these videos. They make you emotional, but they are not just showing what is wrong, (in a simplistic and creative way) they are making suggestions on how to make a better world. They have invented games for kids and everyone to learn and play and understand the problems and how to make it better.

It's not going to be easy but slowly I feel more hopeful. One day at a time.

The thing is people didn't start out to make things the awful way it's turned out. I don't think people intended to do all these terrible things to animals, they were just trying to earn a living.

But now we can see and we can make changes...we have to...for our children....for ourselves...for the world and all it's beautiful creatures.