A lot of groups and websites are celebrating World Oceans Day today.  Here are two that you might want to check out:

The Ocean Project is hosting a World Oceans Day website at: www.theoceanproject.org/wod/

If you like eating seafood, please try to ensure it’s sustainable.  SeaChoice, Canada’s most comprehensive sustainable seafood program, has a website at:  www.seachoice.org

Do something good for our Oceans today!

Let’s celebrate our fabulous home planet today, as well as pledge that we will help make a positive difference in the next year.  Read the last paragraph in my blog entry below (”Earth Days”) if you want some inspiration!

If you’d like to send your friends an Earth Day e-card, check out World Wildlife Fund US which has a small but nice selection on their website. 

It is rather poignant to celebrate our planet on the same day as reading Newsweek’s 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear.   It’s an inventory of some of our world’s most beautiful places and a reminder that if we let climate change continue we will lose these places.

As Stewart Brand says in Earth Days, we all have a unique opportunity to make a contribution that will last for eons after we’ve passed on.   And if we all do something, then we will be able to save the 5,966 endangered species, feed the one billion people who are hungry, and stop storms and weather problems from destroying lives and areas on our planet.

What are you going to do for the Earth this year?

In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported that there are 5,966 endangered species of vertebrate animals (mammals, birds, etc.) in the world. Also, more than one billion people are undernourished, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. And the climate is changing, as destructive weather such as storms, droughts and floods becomes more common.

But there’s also great hope, and many people are thinking up innovative solutions and managing charitable efforts to help make a positive difference for our planet. As always, I am honored to join those people who are trying to stop animal extinctions, feed people in developing countries (and closer to home), and help our planet in so many, many ways. Each one of them is needed. And so are You.

Time is short, and all hands are needed on deck. This blog will talk about situations, solutions and opportunities for you to help. The dedicated people and organizations that are helping our planet deserve our support. This blog will provide another avenue for their work, and getting the word out about what they are doing. Our planet, its people and its animals deserve our support.

Please feel free to comment about any posting. Or if you’d like to get in touch, email us at info@voicesforourplanet.com .

Enjoy! And be active – it’s time to help.