By Barbara Wiseman, The Earth Organization, Pine Mountain Club

Mountain Neighbors and The Earth Organization (TEO) are coming together this year to put on an Earth Day celebration at Frazier Mountain Park on Friday, April 22, from 3–6 p.m.

“It’s time to shake off the gloom, learn more about the natural world around us, have some family fun and appreciate how blessed we are to be living in this beautiful part of the country,” said Elke Heitmeyer from Mountain Neighbors.
  
CoEco: Cooperative Ecology

We here at TEO see that the concept of Cooperative Ecology underlies every relationship on the planet, whether one is considering an individual or an entire species.
 
Children’s interactions with parents;

a scientist’s choices between creating destructive bioweapons or constructive chemicals that improve health and economic stability; a politician’s or policymaker’s choices regarding impacts that ripple ever outwards from those decisions—the examples are endless, because CoEco is how life on this planet survives well… or not.

Earth Day’s Origin Story

We often hear others sharing how…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Earth Day 2022 will close with a drumming circle like this one at a 2018 Mountain Neighbors event.

Imagine—this lad being given a seedling at a 2005 Earth Day event is now a man, and possibly a father. Who knows how Earth Day ideas and activities may have helped shape his adult environmental worldview?

The monarch hatches as a caterpillar, then goes into a chrysalis, to transform and emerge as a beautiful butterfly.

The monarch, perhaps the world’s best-known butterfly, has become the symbol for an entire class of imperiled pollinators. They only lay eggs on the milkweed plant, and loss of the milkweed (due to climate change, pesticides and development) has seen monarch numbers drop by 80% or more. Do your part by signing up for a milkweed plant to plant in your mountain yard, to attract monarchs!

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