When I sat down to write about Earth Day and our Earth’s status, I felt it might just be too big of a topic for me. I mean with the politics and the harsh rhetoric that go along with it, I was thinking maybe I better stick with something “nice”  that will put us all in our happy place. That would be so much easier wouldn’t it?  Well, after thinking about it a little longer, I decided that maybe it’s not as hard as I thought. Sometimes we look at a problem as large as the health of our planet and we subconsciously decide that because one little person cannot solve all the problems; we may as well not even try. But we can all affect the things within our sphere of influence, which will collectively impact the world. I think the best way to go about doing this is with common sense, not scare tactics. An unhealthy environment causes unhealthy people.  We all want to be healthy and we certainly want our children to be healthy as well. We can all make little choices every day that will make a big difference over time. They say that the hand that rocks the cradle, changes the world. If we teach our children while they are young to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink and not just to do it, but why we want to, even need to.  The next generation will instinctively be conservationists; to them it will be a no-brainer. That’s what we need: we need caring for our planet to become a no-brainer. I mean what is the alternative?