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Three cheers...

...for all the sung and unsung heros of the Earth Day 2011: Lighten Up extravaganza! If you are looking for post event information, photos and videos, click back a few words.

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Lighten up, already!  For years, gloom and doom environmentalism has scared the pants off of people, leaving them paralyzed with fear and with cold fannies. Well, we’re tired of inaction and are adding a dose of levity to the tone of the dialog as you'll see throughout this website and with a few other things up our sleeves. Visit the Global Warming Gallery for cartoons and funny photo illustrations.

We also mean "Lighten Up" with respect to our collective and individual Ecological Footprints. The size or weight of one's "footprint" is measured with a type of resource accounting that compares consumption against capacity. We won't say just how many Earths would be needed for everyone on the planet to live like Americans ('cause it's a little scary), but we will say that there are easy peasy ways you can reduce your footprint so that it is as light as a feather (find more ways here). You with us?  We hope so!  And just who is "YOU"? And who is "US"? Click to see.

This year's theme - "Lighten Up" - is the name of a song by a massively popular hardcore punk band turned hip hop. Click to take a trip down memory lane with a musical review (of sorts) of the last four Earth Day extravaganzas coordinated by Green Columbus and find out which band inspires us. (Hey, Trivia Junkies and Number Crunchers, this one's for you...this is where we list the numbers representing all the good green things we've gotten done together).