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Seas the Day in August – Be Water Wise
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not ever man’s greed.” –Gandhi “Water, water every where And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.” -Coleridge “Seas” the month of August by thinking about your water consumption. Our blue planet is covered in water, but most […]
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Seas the Day in July – Eating for a Better World
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” -Oscar Wilde “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkin “Seas” the days of July by thinking about what you eat. Your well-traveled food comes from all over the world, […]
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Seas the Day in June – Explore the Outdoors!
The Seas the Day initiative encourages and empowers people to take ocean conservation personally. Each month, we feature a new conservation theme with ways to help so come back regularly for more ocean-friendly ideas and tips!Created mainly to support our partner ZAMs (Zoos, Aquariums, and Museums and other visitor-serving organizations involved in our growing network) […]
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Seas the Day in May – Green Gardening
“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.” ―Frances Hodgson Burnett “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” ―Claude Monet Gardeners often end up with dirt underneath their fingernails and grass stained pants. They also create spaces of awe-inspiring beauty and […]
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Seas the Day in April – Clean Green
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” -Henry David Thoreau “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” -Barbara Ward As the weather warms up it may be time for spring cleaning. […]
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Seas the Day in March – Green Transportation Choices
”Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” -Steven Wright “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” -H. G. Wells “Life is a journey, not a destination.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson This month let’s focus on the journey and not the destination. […]
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Seas the Day in February – Community Connections
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead “So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson Seas the days of February […]
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Seas the Day in January – Get Inspired
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” – Blaise Pascal “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” -e.e. cummings With a new year beginning it’s a perfect time to get inspired by something. The […]
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Seas the Day in November – Rethink Your Habits
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. – David Suzuki Last month we talked about reducing our use of electricity. That is just one […]
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Seas the Day in October – Being Energy E(fish)ent
“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.” – Theodore Roosevelt “Energy will be […]
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