Okay, so I’m a week late.  I tend to treat Earth Day much like birthdays: something best celebrated in moderation every day, not just at a whiz-bang party once a  year.  The truth is I haven’t been very good at either model when it comes to Mother Earth, though not for lack of good intentions.  It’s kind of like when my Uncle teases me he’s going to enroll me in Telephone 101.  It’s not that I don’t want to call, I just kinda…get busy with other things.

Photo courtesy of John Haslam

Then I read another fabulous interview in The Sun magazine with Alex Steffen, author of the bestselling book Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century.  I haven’t read the book yet (I’ve, uhh, been too busy for that too apparently) but the interview did spur me to action, which is exactly what I think Steffen would want.

Like many people, I don’t subscribe to many magazines.   I hate having to recycle them when I’m done as I always feel guilty throwing away good writing.  But one enjoys a special place in my mailbox: The Sun. 

It’s a bit like A Prairie Home Companion in print, but darker.  As they say on their About page, “words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of being human.”