Regardless of your belief system on the creation of the Earth -- God made it in six days or there was this big bang billions and billions of years ago -- this planet is all we got. I remember walking around a public park in Egypt and seeing litter all over the place. I turned to our guide and said, “Is it always like this?” He replied, “Yes, they don’t learn that here. It’s not like America.” I saw the same thing in many South American cities. This contrasts to Japan, where you could eat off the sidewalks and stroll through pristine parks. Most Japanese would pick up a bit of litter on the sidewalk and put it in the trash receptacle if they saw it lying around. It would be an embarrassment to their country to leave it there.

So here on Earth Day millions of American are asking what can I do to save the Earth? Sell my SUV? Grow my own vegetables? Put up a solar panel on my roof? Walk to work? Send money to Al Gore? Well all those might be nice but you can do something a lot easier today. Merely pick up the first piece of trash you see in a public place and dispose of it in the nearest litter collection box. Now do this again each day for the rest of your life and you will help to save the Earth. Happy Earth Day Everyone.