You spent Thanksgiving in front of the tube watching Garfield float slowly down Broadway. Your participation on July 4th consisted of only getting out of the pool long enough to turn the franks over. And Valentine’s Day found you in a stuffy restaurant trying to figure out which fork was for your tilapia.

Maybe it’s time to celebrate a more meaningful holiday.

Earth Day is an annual worldwide holiday that is celebrated with the common goal of local and global harmony with nature and neighbors. A day of action, it can be spent cleaning the local environment, reducing waste, or merely appreciating the great outdoors. Maybe you prefer lying aimlessly on the beach catching rays to hauling a garbage bag around it picking up other people’s cigarette butts and empty beer cans, but if you’ve ever had the urge to do your part in a huge national effort to save the world, this is the time to do it.