Millions spend the weekend cleaning
Posted by at Sep 22nd, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Local , News , Activism When you left your house this morning, did you notice anything different? Are the streets just a little brighter? Perhaps the sand to syringe ratio at your local beach improved just a bit over the weekend? Everywhere you look should seem cleaner, because it was “Clean Up the World” weekend . Clean Up the World is a global organization that started 17 years ago by one outraged Australian sailor, Ian Kiernan. After dreaming for years of seeing the Sargasso Sea, he arrived there to find it filthy and polluted. And this was not an isolated event — every where he sailed he saw beautiful environments ruined by the artifacts of careless humans. Rather than stew in his irritation, Ian went back to Australia and organized the first clean up event in Sydney Harbor in 1989. The next year the event was bigger, with 300,000 cleaning up all of Australia. And it keeps growing! Now, every year on the third weekend in September, millions of small, locally-led groups around the world simultaneously hold a Clean Up the World event. Projects can be straight-forward trash clean up, planting trees, or have something to do with energy conservation. The idea is to leave the world cleaner, nicer, and better than we found it. Even though the “big” weekend just passed, Clean Up the World is active year round. Visit their activities page to learn about what you can do to join or start a local chapter. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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