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Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:10

Written by Diana Nelson Jones

The Guinness World Records people have confirmed that the “Paddle at the Point” event on World Environment Day last June broke the record for the largest single-event flotilla of canoes and kayaks: 1,619.

Congratulations to all, especially to the records verifying committee for devoting nine whole months to the task.

Venture Outdoors got the call this week. VO was among a partnership of pro-green organizations that participated. Walkabout got the word from Ginette Walker Vinski of Sustainable Pittsburgh. (And this photo was taken by Mike Vindler.)

The record we beat was set by 1,104 boats in Inlet, New York, which beat the record held by Cleveland.  Both locales will try to recapture top honors this year.

This year’s celebration, on June 5, returns to the theme Water Matters! (Love those exclamation points.) The local partnership is encouraging you and your organization to celebrate WED with programs and activities.  Nonprofits, businesses, and other agencies are invited to add their events to the Pittsburgh World Environment Day website. 

The site is supported by the Bayer USA Foundation and will be a central repository for WED events and activities in the region.

World Environment Day is supposed to “stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and encourage political attention and action,” according to the official language. It is coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme.  

Call me impatient (41 years after the first Earth Day), but the Forces of Fossil Fuels seem to be wholly in control of political action.

But keep row row rowing those boats.

Events such as World Environment Day foster some hope that one day defeat will come to the titans of dirty energy, their politicians and their gluttonous legions, who all seem determined to fight to the death... of all of us.

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written by bradsp, March 31, 2011 - 02:06 PM

Those poor Dirty Energy Titans just cant catch a break - even in the Walkabout.

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