As most people know, from Saturday, April 12 to today April 23, is Earth Week.
But there is more than green space that must be preserved - the minds and bodies of our young people.
From Monday, April 21 to Sunday, April 27, Turn Off Your TV Week, sponsored by the Center for Screen Time Awareness, is leading the charge for change.
The campaign is aimed at asking families and children to have quality time with themselves and others. That means getting out into the world and experiencing it, not through an agenda-ridden machine, but through real life interaction.
For those who only see the technical side of life, people from the Center say that you should turn off all screens to get the maximum effect anyway, including video games and computers.
For more information on the topic see the Web site: http://www.tvturnoff.org/. For a radical take on our addiction to the tube, take a gander at http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/.
Yes, computer terminals count in this equation.
So I'm signing off for at least the next two hours.
