{"id":435334,"date":"2010-03-16T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2010-03-16T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:04:23","slug":"show-the-world-it%e2%80%99s-your-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435334","title":{"rendered":"Show the World It\u2019s YOUR Environment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R4od4tOkz5Y\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1615\" title=\"It's My Environment\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;It's my environment&quot; written in the sand\" vspace=\"50\" width=\"440\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join our \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment\u201d Earth Day video project!\u00a0 It\u2019s easy, fun and YOU could be a media star in the final video!\u00a0 Make a video clip up to 10 seconds long:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have someone from off screen hand you a sign saying      \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment\u201d \u00a0from your      right (so it\u2019ll come into the screen from the viewer\u2019s left)<\/li>\n<li>Hold up the sign and say \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment!\u201d (or      the equivalent in your language) and perform a simple action to      protect the environment. For example: recycling, riding a bike instead of      driving, turning lights off when not in use, or clearing debris from a      local stream.<\/li>\n<li>After you say \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment!\u201d and complete      your action, hand the sign off screen to your left as if you were giving      it to the next person in line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submit clips as video responses on YouTube by April 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll compile selected clips into one video and show it on our Web site and YouTube on Earth Day, April 22. \u00a0The goal is to form a virtual \u201chuman chain\u201d around the globe. Show the world that it is YOUR environment, so you want to live in a clean and healthy world and preserve our precious planet for coming generations.<\/p>\n<p>Have some fun!\u00a0 Be creative.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R4od4tOkz5Y\">Here\u2019s the demo video we did with some EPA folks<\/a>.\u00a0 We did have a blast recording it, but we\u2019re sure you can do even better.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/earthday\/video\">detailed instructions<\/a> provide links to signs printed in English, Spanish and other languages. To use a language not listed, write \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment\u201d (in your language) on a piece of paper at least 8 inches on a side in thick black lines.<\/p>\n<p>Because environmental protection is for everyone \u2013 people of all ages, races, languages, economic status, or geographic location.<\/p>\n<p>We know the power of social media to connect people all over the earth to share their thoughts and images, but could social media actually help <strong>protect<\/strong> the planet Earth?\u00a0 I believe so!\u00a0 And that\u2019s exactly why I work on social media for EPA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Suzanne Ackerman works in EPA&#8217;s Office of Web Communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join our \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment\u201d Earth Day video project!\u00a0 It\u2019s easy, fun and YOU could be a media star in the final video!\u00a0 Make a video clip up to 10 seconds long: Have someone from off screen hand you a sign saying \u201cIt\u2019s My Environment\u201d \u00a0from your right (so it\u2019ll come into the screen from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}