Vasudha team invites everyone to participate in a 21 day Earth Day Challenge.
The goal of this challenge is to make everyone consciously think about the impact of every action we take on Mother Earth and inculcate earth-friendly, other-life-friendly habits that will decrease the stress on the Earth we are living on.
Last month, scientists made a strange and somber discovery: plants under duress make audible sounds that other species can hear many feet away but aren’t audible to humans. A tomato plant that hasn’t gotten enough water, a grapevine being cut, or wheat growing thin due to poor soil. An unheard wave of silent disconnection — with ourselves, each other and nature — lingers underneath the roars of our world today. As Stephen Levine said, “If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.”
In that backdrop, how might we ignite the intelligence of the heart to hear beyond sounds? To look not only from our personal lens, but also from our granddaughter’s eyes? To feel each others’ pain, and to respond with tenderness and love, and bring healing one small act, one square inch of earth, and one human heart at a time?
On this Earth Day, Vasudha team is excited to initiate this small act to make everyone consciously think about their daily actions, think about the stress of these actions on Mother Earth, hear the pain of other life on our home, and take conscious actions to reduce pain experienced by other life on Earth. Here is what you need to do to be part of this challenge. 1) Before 22nd April, spend some time thinking about things you can do to reduce stress on earth and of other life on earth. 2) From 22nd April for the next 21 days, each day take one or more small actions to reduce stress on Earth and help ease pain felt by other life on Earth. 3) Each day post a comment on this article with the action you have taken and the impact you have made. Make sure your contact information is available so that we can reach out to you so that we can work together to help expand the impact we can make together to the world in building world as one family. 4) After 21st day, send your consolidated list of actions for 21 days to info@vasudhaworld.org to be published to our website. This can be a consolidated video of your actions or a list of actions in text form. At the end of the challenge, Vasudha team will review all actions taken by the community we are able to reach and pick top ten people that made the most impact and have them present their thoughts to rest of the community to help inspire all of us in a zoom meet we will conduct on May 20th 7 am PST.
Example actions can be planting a tree, reduce/eliminate plastic usage, reduce use of fossil fuels, compassionate act towards other less fortunate life on earth and any other act you can think of to help Mother Earth and other life on Earth. Every compassionate act to help others counts. Number of people helped adds that many to the count. Don’t stop after the challenge, keep helping other life on Earth.
So get ready and do your bit to help life on Earth. Show your acts through comments on the page.
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Last Updated: April 17, 2023 by admin
21 Day Earth Day Challenge
Vasudha team invites everyone to participate in a 21 day Earth Day Challenge.
The goal of this challenge is to make everyone consciously think about the impact of every action we take on Mother Earth and inculcate earth-friendly, other-life-friendly habits that will decrease the stress on the Earth we are living on.
Last month, scientists made a strange and somber discovery: plants under duress make audible sounds that other species can hear many feet away but aren’t audible to humans. A tomato plant that hasn’t gotten enough water, a grapevine being cut, or wheat growing thin due to poor soil. An unheard wave of silent disconnection — with ourselves, each other and nature — lingers underneath the roars of our world today. As Stephen Levine said, “If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.”
In that backdrop, how might we ignite the intelligence of the heart to hear beyond sounds? To look not only from our personal lens, but also from our granddaughter’s eyes? To feel each others’ pain, and to respond with tenderness and love, and bring healing one small act, one square inch of earth, and one human heart at a time?
On this Earth Day, Vasudha team is excited to initiate this small act to make everyone consciously think about their daily actions, think about the stress of these actions on Mother Earth, hear the pain of other life on our home, and take conscious actions to reduce pain experienced by other life on Earth. Here is what you need to do to be part of this challenge. 1) Before 22nd April, spend some time thinking about things you can do to reduce stress on earth and of other life on earth. 2) From 22nd April for the next 21 days, each day take one or more small actions to reduce stress on Earth and help ease pain felt by other life on Earth. 3) Each day post a comment on this article with the action you have taken and the impact you have made. Make sure your contact information is available so that we can reach out to you so that we can work together to help expand the impact we can make together to the world in building world as one family. 4) After 21st day, send your consolidated list of actions for 21 days to info@vasudhaworld.org to be published to our website. This can be a consolidated video of your actions or a list of actions in text form. At the end of the challenge, Vasudha team will review all actions taken by the community we are able to reach and pick top ten people that made the most impact and have them present their thoughts to rest of the community to help inspire all of us in a zoom meet we will conduct on May 20th 7 am PST.
Example actions can be planting a tree, reduce/eliminate plastic usage, reduce use of fossil fuels, compassionate act towards other less fortunate life on earth and any other act you can think of to help Mother Earth and other life on Earth. Every compassionate act to help others counts. Number of people helped adds that many to the count. Don’t stop after the challenge, keep helping other life on Earth.
So get ready and do your bit to help life on Earth. Show your acts through comments on the page.
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