Since our highly successful live, interactive Earth Day webcast on Sunday, there have been lots of enthusiastic additional comments and ripples that I’m just catching up on this morning. (At the end of this post I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to since Sunday.)
Celebrate Earth Day with us April 22 at 3:00 p.m. EDT in a live interactive webcast.
I arrived home from Kootenay presbytery at midnight last night, bursting with resurrection soul-energy for God’s wonderful world and wonderful church. The packed choir loft of Kimberley United Church in Kimberley B.C. yesterday couldn’t contain the harmonies of trumpet and voice in singing and playing What a Wonderful World (music and lyrics by Weiss and Thiele, arranged by Russ Robinson.)
Our worship this year has been framed by a Good Friday that fell on Earth Day last year and a Sunday in Easter that will fall on Earth Day this year. (I wrote about this in the Toronto Star on Good Friday 2011.
I took advantage of this coincidence to plan an Easter celebration of Earth Day involving
Please check out Moderator Mardi Tindal's terrific editorial in today's Toronto Star.
Since tomorrow is Earth Day, posting a quiz. If you have children it is a good way to alert them to conservation. If you don't have children, take the quiz anyway - it's fun.
EARTH DAY QUIZ.
1. What is an ecosystem?
a) It is a place having unique physical features—including air, water and land—supporting plant and animal life.
b) It's a process to name newly discovered plants and animals.
c) It's a popular computer game.
April 22, 2009
Right Honourable Stephen Harper PC MP Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa ON K1A 0A3
Prime Minister Harper:
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