Wearing a Green Heart

Next week is Valentine's Day where everywhere will be covered with red hearts.  However, The Climate Coalition has asked us this year (as the past three years) to wear and give a green heart instead of a red in support of the fight against climate change.

Made using a hobby you enjoy and from products you already have, the heart is meant to be a starting point for a conversation with others and to represent the thing you love which you would lose to climate change.  The special thing about these hearts is that they are all unique and a representation of you.  The green heart can really be made using whatever material you want and either individually or as a group where discussions can take place about the work towards stopping climate change.  There's a few ideas on The Climate Coalition website (show the love).

Knitting is something I was taught to do by my grandmother many years ago and have gone back to it, on and off ever since.  I am definitely not very good at it and more practice is needed, but it seemed to be a lovely way to connect the woman who taught to stand up for what I believe in to the thing I care about the most, this planet.

Once you've made your heart, or maybe whilst you're making it, you need to decide what it is that you love for the most.  The website suggests things like football pitches, the silent woodlands, or the crops that feed us.  However, for me it has to be something as non-specific as the living world.  To me this is the most amazing thing we have (though we don't own it).  It'll be centuries before we have discovered everything there is to know about it; it is a thing of immense beauty; it gives us the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe; it is the reason we even exist in the first place.  To me, it is the one thing that is worth halting climate change for.