Rod Oram: Remaking our pact with natureSupplied 23012016 Summer pix - Moonrise at Anaura Bay Taken by Wade Walker-BerbenOn the Thursday before Easter, MPs debated our economic and ecological future. NASA NASA's famous "Global Selfie" Earth mosaic contained more than 36,000 individual photographs from the more than 50,000 images posted around the world on Earth Day three years ago. Called Earth Day, it was the idea of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. Yesterday was the 47th annual Earth Day, which for many decades now has been a global UN event. Was the pre-Easter parliamentary discussion, though, the first sign here we might invoke the great powers of the first Earth Day to remake our relationship with nature?

Source: Stuff April 22, 2017 17:03 UTC