Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week! is a 9 day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life. Beginning on April 16th and continuing through April 24th, Serve the Earth Week includes Earth Day, an annual event to support environmental protection as well as Give-A-Day: Mayor’s Week of Service started by Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville. Serve the Earth Week is played globally between youth, educators, cities, neighborhoods, interfaith groups, environmental organizations and Indigenous communities to develop regenerative social and environmental practices that cultivate an awareness of life’s interconnectivity, and the human responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for untold generations of life to come.
Love This Place! is grounded in appreciation and respect of one’s local bioregion, honoring Indigenous leadership and practices in how best to care for Mother Earth while acknowledging our human place in the web of life. Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week is a way to explore how we can be compassionate toward the Earth, and act in way to discover compassion for ourselves, each other, and all members of the Earth Community.
Why Play in Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week?
Mother Earth needs our love! And we need Mother Earth!
Since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and future, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing. This “Green Compassion” is calling us to live in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.
Mobilized compassionate action to Protect and Restore the Sacredness of Mother Earth is the ultimate act of compassion, for its benefits reach far beyond our individual selves to all living beings. The youngest among us, and our future generations, are looking to us – their ancestors! – to care for the Earth lovingly so that it can support and sustain their lives as well.
Let’s play together and bring compassion to life for Mother Earth!