Jeanne C Rosenbohm became interested in climate change as a 1970s teacher. The author realized how important it was to start cleaning up the world and stop the damage being done. When she became a grandmother, it was even more important to her that she do what she could to leave to her grandchildren a world that was in better shape than when she was born. Children must be taught to care. It is not our right to destroy the world. It is our obligation to care for it for future generations. Natives teach that. Time we learned.



 The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Jeanne was a first-year teacher who was still too timid to peek beyond the teacher’s editions, which provided them with all the questions and answers they would ever need to ask. It took her a couple of years to get her teacher boots on and find material to complement the lessons. That is when she first taught Earth Day. 



She arranged for the viewing of a program on pollution and recycling that had been shown on their local PBS channel. They agreed to rebroadcast it during the day at a time designated for science class. This was a big deal back then. Since then, she’d wanted to express how she felt about Mother Earth and wake up those people who still have no interest or no desire to do anything about this topic. The time has come for us to decide if we want to help …or not. 



Earth Day has celebrated over 50 years of being able to celebrate Mother Earth. Please help the earth thrive 100 years from now.