Earth Day - Day Zero

Day Zero, what a day...

Who knew the beaches of southern CA have so much trash on them. I can't honestly speak for all of them, as I only went to one today, but man. Today opened my eyes to a serious problem.

Let's just say, I am NEVER, EVER, EVER (I'd include more EVERs, howEVER, I believe that would be EVER so redundant) nEVER going to get into the waters of Venice Beach. My sincerest respect for the surfers who donned their wetsuits and braved the filth infested waters. You gentlemen truly love the ocean, even though you were in danger of catching some sort of infection by coming in contact with her today.
I learned two very important things while picking up trash at Venice Beach today: 1) Ladybugs really love seaweed (and should you ever find yourself in the position of collecting ladybugs, you must go to a beach and find the seaweed which has been washed ashore. You'll score bigtime), and 2) I hate cigarette butts. I really do.

The event in all was pretty awesome!! 

Throughout my walk up and down the sand the words of Walt Kelly rang true, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Just one piece of trash, that's all it takes. That candy wrapper, cigarette butt, bottle cap, it all ends up somewhere, and never was it more apparent to me than today. I already was pretty good about picking up after myself, but now I am going to make a point of not being responsible for one more piece of garbage washing up on our shores.

I hope you can do the same. I encourage you to sign up for one of these events in the future. Or heck, grab a trash bag and go to your favorite beach and just do a random comb of the sand. I guarantee you will never see that gum wrapper you throw on the ground the same way.

A VERY special thanks, of course, to Children Sports International for hosting and putting this all together!

Follow this link to get info on today's event:

http://iamplanetearth.blogspot.com/2012/03/be-solution-to-ocean-pollution-earth.html

Also, if you're interested in more pics of today's event:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.351683798212865.76069.169345689780011&type=3&l=7c632f081f
turns out I missed all the photops... lame...

To learn more about Children Sports International visit their site at:
https://www.childrensportsinternational.org/
Children Sports International seeks to be a source of inspiration for children and young adults to grow and inspire others to unite and promote a message of peace.


Tomorrow I'll be at a Fill the Boot Event sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Time for bed!