EARTH DAY! 世界地球日！

What day is it today? Is it my birthday? Ok, that’s not really important (unless you plan to surprise me with a ten-tiered birthday cake with chocolate toppings).

It is EARTH DAY today! Yes, it’s really a special day to remind us how important our earth is! So important that we just shouldn’t sit there and do nothing about it! So what can you do on your part to celebrate this event?

Well, for starters, you don’t have to REALLY do anything big. There are organizations around the world holding big workshops and activities to create awareness on environmental conservation and to encourage people to protect this beautiful earth of ours.

Maybe your school is doing some ‘green’ activity, such as planting trees, or asking students to recycle unwanted tin cans and stuffs. Or maybe your Nature Society is holding a trip to the forest park to learn about nature and ways to conserve the environment.

There are lots of things you can do on Earth Day. And it DOESN’T have to be big (unless you are volunteering for a big environmental association or organization, like Greenpeace).

Remember the 3Rs? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

You can start by maybe not wasting so much paper. In my line of work as an editor, I HAVE to save lots of paper! We try to reduce the use of paper BECAUSE editing requires lots of paper usage (for manuscripts, printing, etc.).

And the reason we don’t want to use LOTS of paper is because TREES have to be cut down to make paper! And the more trees are cut down, the lesser trees there will be. We don’t want to ‘hurt’ the trees if we can help it! Trees are important, really. They provide shade, they supply oxygen, and they just beautify the environment. But there’s more than that.

And we reuse papers. For example, we don’t take out new clean sheets of paper when doing editing. We reuse ‘one-sided’ printed papers! That’s right! We write on the other side of the paper which is BLANK. That’s called ‘reusing’! Imagine how many tonnes of paper can be saved!

How about recycling? Well, we can recycle things we don’t need anymore, such as old newspapers, magazines, books, etc..

So how are you going to celebrate Earth Day? It doesn’t have to be boring. You can invite your friends over for an ‘Earth Day’ party.

Ask each friend to bring over their old magazines or newspapers. Ask them to put them inside a ‘special’ box, which will be sent to the recycling centre. After all that is done, you and your friends must have been pretty weary sorting out books and newspapers and stuffs!

Then, it’s time for PARTY! Go buy tasty treats (maybe a BIG cake) for yourselves, and watch a movie about the EARTH. I recommend documentaries such as “An Inconvenient Truth” by Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore. You can also watch great cartoons such as “Open Season 2”, in which it focuses on the theme of the environment (like saving the forest, etc.).

See? Isn’t that fun? It’s simple as that! But maybe you can come up with more creative ideas than me! So why not give your ideas a try?!

Our EARTH will be so proud to have eco-warriors like you!


今天是什么日子呢？是我的生日？好吧，这并不重要（除非你打算给我惊喜，送给我巧克力口味的十层高生日蛋糕）。

今天是世界地球日！是的，这真是一个特別的日子，提醒我们地球是如此重要！因此，重要的是，我们不应该坐视不管！那你可以做些什么来庆祝这个日子呢？

首先，你不需要做任何大事情。有一些分布在世界各地的组织举办大型研讨会和活动，以促进人们对自然环境保护的认识和觉醒，并鼓励人们保护这美丽的地球。

也许你的学校正在做一些“绿色”活动，如植树，或要求学生回收废弃的铁罐和物品。或者是你的自然学会举行森林公园一日遊，让大家了解大自然和保护生态环境的方法。

你可以在地球日这一天做很多事情。比如一些随手可做的小事（除非你是一個大型环境协会或组织的志工，如绿色和平组织）。

记得３R嗎？减少、再使用、回收再利用。

或許你可以从今天开始不再浪费太多的紙。像我身为一位编辑，我必须节省大量的纸张！我们尽量减少使用它，因为编辑需要使用很多纸（如手稿，印刷等）。

我们不要使用大量的纸，是因为树木被砍伐后用來制造白纸！如果树木不断被砍伐，它就会越来越少。我们可以尽己所能地不“伤害”那些树木！树木真的很重要。它们可供遮荫，提供氧气，还能美化环境，甚至不止于此。

我们重复使用纸张。例如，我们不采用新的空白纸來进行编辑工作。我们重复使用“单面”的印刷品！没错！我们写的另一面纸是空白的。这就是所谓的“再使用”！试着想象有多少吨废纸可以节省！

要如何回收再利用呢？我们可以回收不需要的东西，如旧报纸、杂志、书籍等。

你会怎么庆祝地球日呢？这一天也可以是有趣的。你可以邀请朋友出席一場“地球日”的聚会。

要求每一位朋友带來旧杂志或报纸。请他们把回收物品放在一个“特別”的箱子里，再送往回收中心。完成这些任务后，你和你的朋友想必已经非常疲累了！

接着，就是精彩的派对时间了！去买美味可口的食物（也许是大蛋糕）奖赏自己，再看一部关于地球的电影。我推荐一些纪录片，如诺贝尔和平奖得主戈尔的《绝望真相》。你也可以观赏好看的卡通电影，如《丛林大反攻２》（也有译为《狩猎季节２》），主要是以生态环境為题材（如拯救森林等）。

有趣吧？就这么简单！但是，也许你可以想出比我更好的创意哦！那为何不试试你的想法呢？！

我们的地球因为有了你这位生态勇士而感到无比光荣！