earth day resolutions?

i suppose there is some value in calling attention to environmental issues once a year...if only to remind an anesthetized broader public, wrapped up in 4G networks, i-pads, smart phones, nascar, baseball, and untold other consumerist activities, that we are actually part of and a product of an ecosystem that is definitely unhappy and about to get ugly over the issue of human intervention in natural cycles...then again, on another level it's alot like new year's resolutions that people stick to for a week or two and conveniently forget...dealing with the fact the we are about to be overwhelmed in unpleasant ways with changes or that we have industrialized food production by making it reliant on the mining of finite resources and eating oil and natural gas or that the economic base we rely in is unsustainable in its current form requires more than a once a year payment of lip service...new year's resolutions are pointless, and in that respect so is earth day...you have to live these changes, not think about them occasionally...decide what you're going to be and then be that...every day...it's work, and sometimes it's a royal pain...it's also the only way anything substantive will be accomplished, especially in the face of resistance from those who have a vested interest in keeping things they way they are...they will fail in that...but they won't believe it until it happens.

the gamagrass in the top photo is looking a bit yellow from all the rain...no worries...it will green up when it warms a bit...the spring wheat is doing fine and will be on schedule for a late summer finish...if the starlings leave any...the winter wheat in the middle photo is cooking along just fine too...another starling banquet in a couple of months...the fourth photo is of one of two rouge jerusalem artichokes i dug out of the university lawn ( that's three so far) and the two would have been numbers fifteen and sixteen on campus ( where i planted six) but i transplanted them to my back yard ( see the entry below)....the bottom photo is of a soggy garden on earth day 2011...a miniscule contribution to alternate thought about the way things are that is the result of quite a bit of thought, planning, and anthropological reading...i'll send you my reading list if you like.