Got a great book for Earth Day reading!

The sun is setting on Earth Day as I write this.  I worked on Green Geezer memes all day, including one promoting Wild Lives by Lori Robinson and Janie Chodosh.  It's an excellent, informative book, sort of a mini-who's who of the wildlife conservation and preservation world.  Even the accolades on the back cover are by some of the most esteemed scientists and activists in the world, like Jane Goodall (primatologist and founder of the Jane Goodall Foundation), Vanessa Woods (Author of Bonobo Handshake), Marc Bekoff, (author of The Animal's Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age) to name a few.

Between those book covers is amazing stuff. There is a foreword by Carl Safina, and then twenty chapters of pure gold from Thomas Lovejoy, who coined "biological diversity", Beverly and Dereck Joubert, scientists and advocates for African Wildlife and Wilderness, Anne Dagg, giraffe advocate, Yossi Leshem, bird advocate and expert, Laurie Marker, Cheetah advocate, Kushal Konwar Sarma, Asian Elephant advocate, Paul Hilton, an investigative journalist specializing in exposing the illegal wildlife trade, Steven Armstrup, Polar bear advocate, Meg Lowman, self-proclaimed nature nerd and tree advocate, Richard O'Barry, dolphin advocate, George Schaller, Global wildlife advocate, Grace Ge Gabriel, Chinese wildlife advocate, David Parsons, Carnivore Conservation Biologist (especially wolves and coyotes), Ian Craig, Peacemaker and wildlife advocate, Megan Parker, canine and conservation advocate, Farwiza Farhan, Leuser Ecosystem advocate,  Dominique Bikaba, gorilla warrior, Craig Packer, African lion advocate, Dee Boersma, Penguin advocate, Mike Chase, African elephant advocate. 

All of these dedicated, hard-working people need readers, bloggers, and social page enthusiasts to spread their information. This book needs to sell out on Amazon, fly off of library shelves, and be read by people who itch to keep endangered animals from disappearing from the earth forever. People like you and me.

Even if you're not a big reader, you can still help. Try it this way: Just look up the authors on your social media pages. Friend them, follow them, like them – and share their stuff. Share the stuff they share and retweet by others in their field. It's fun! You can learn a lot. Every day. My memes, with biologists and advocates' websites and social media handles will be popping up, and when they do, jot down the info, go on their pages, and share their stuff. (Including stuff on Green Geezers blog.) If you find any interesting ways you might be able to personally help (it doesn't have to be financially – just take a bag with you and pick up litter on your next walk, or pass along information and blogs from org sites, plant a tree, start a neighborhood garden), all the better!

If you just take a few minutes a day to read about what's going on, and find a way to pitch in, even if it's only just a little, then we can tackle big problems. Many hands make lighter work.

And I wish you a Happy Earth Day. I hope you found a way to pitch in…maybe planted a tree or a tomato plant, or picked up some litter when you were at the beach or walking in the park, or reused some plastic, or contributed to an environmental or wildlife org.

Every little bit helps, as long as we all do everything we possibly can.

Earth Day Every Day!

Thanks for reading!

Ter