Today is Earth Day. Since 1970, concerned citizens of the Earth have used this day to focus attention on issues pertaining to the environmental health of our little planet.

Wait... did he say little? It takes 24 hours just to drive across Texas!

Yeah, actually, I did say little. This is a small planet. It may have seemed huge and boundless to our ancestors, but there are quite a few more of us now.

From year AD 1 it took roughly 1600 years for the population of the Earth to double. It then took roughly 200 years to double again. Then 130 years. In the last 80 years it has more than doubled again. Today roughly 81 million people are added to the world population each year. That is a lot of people.

And around the world, they are trying to become more like us. They want to consume resources the way Americans do. Americans are big consumers of resources. In most areas we consume far more than other countries. But they want to be like us. China and India are catching up. They like driving cars as much as we do. How long can the resources of this planet keep up if US style demand spreads to the rest of the world? Good question. How long can the supply of clean drinking water keep up? Parts of the world have chronic shortages already.

These kind of questions need to be an examined and answers must be found that will provide the Earth with a sustainable future.

The first step toward solving the problems of tomorrow is to educate the children of today. Not with the answers of yesterday, but with the tools to answer the questions, yet unseen, waiting around the corner to tomorrow.

In matters pertaining to our planet, Mobile Ed has two specific school assembly programs designed to educate children about our world and it’s fragile eco system.

The Earth Dome, our giant earth balloon standing twenty feet tall is an ideal tool for exciting children about our planet and giving them an idea of it’s dimensions, atmosphere and geography. This is a great school assembly program! 

Meantime, in another area, we offer Our Changing Climate, a superb 45 minute assembly featuring high tech gizmos to introduce children to the area of global climate change.

Neither of these programs is a preachy diatribe against consumerism. Rather, both of these environmental science assemblies are thoughtful and illuminating introductions to difficult areas of study. Both are extremely useful in bringing children an exciting incite into the future of our world.

Today is Earth Day. A year from now there will be 81 million more people consuming our air, water, food, energy than there are today. A year from now, what will you have done to help solve the problems that loom larger on our horizons daily?

Today might be a good day to think about that. :-)