Valentines for the Earth
es, Valentine’s Day was yesterday. But it’s never too late to express our love for the Earth.
On the day of Radical Joy for Hard Times’s annual Global Earth Exchange, people usually use found materials to make birds for the hurt and endangered places they’re attending to. Sometimes, though, they express their love of place with hearts. Here are a few of them from over the years:
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