Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Earth Day

Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Any celebrations originally planned have, like most other events, been cancelled due to COVID-19. 

 The planet is certainly getting a break from pollution during the lockdowns and decrease in factory output and traffic.

 I thought I would have a mini stamp celebration for today.

 Eva sent me some of these wonderful climate change stamps, along with some drums that will, sadly, not be necessary. 


These were sent on a very thought-provoking postcard.


Some more of the climate change stamps arrived with an icy vista.

They were sent on this excellent Alaska postcard.

And taking a very fast 10 days from being written to arriving, Heleen sent a fantastic snow leopard stamp...
...and a jaguar postcard.




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  1. HeleenApril 22, 2020 at 4:17 AM

    I love this Spanish pro-earth serie!


    (P.S. I think it hard to distinguish the two felines when seeing their portrait only :-D Just by the typical jaguar 'spot in ring of spots' on his/her body I can see it's a jaguar :-) )

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    1. FinnBadgerApril 25, 2020 at 10:22 AM

      I love this series, too. I was a bit surprised a lot of them have slogans in English.

      And yes, definitely hard to decide just from a face on view. Like Finn and Moby :)

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    2. Mail AdventuresApril 25, 2020 at 10:35 AM

      The illustrations of these stamps were taken from signs of protesters during the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Madrid.

      I guess some of the protesters wrote the signs in English because international journalists were there. A couple of stamps are in Spanish, as you can see here.

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    3. FinnBadgerApril 25, 2020 at 4:13 PM

      Thanks for the link. Looks like they issued the designs as postcards too, which is a nice idea.

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    4. Mail AdventuresApril 26, 2020 at 5:51 AM

      I have a couple of them to be sent.

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    5. FinnBadgerApril 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM

      They are such great designs. All different, yet form a cohesive set.

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  2. Mail AdventuresApril 22, 2020 at 4:35 AM

    A climate change stamp was due to issue on 26 March (the winning design of a stamp competition). But I think all the issues have been put off.

    @Heleen I've sent you some of these stamps, haven't I? At least, on the Groundhog Day letter. I hope, because they are sold out, impossible to get now :|

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    1. FinnBadgerApril 25, 2020 at 10:23 AM

      Thanks again for sending them, they are fantastic.

      So far stamps continued to be issued as usual. They have stopped having first day of issue ceremonies.

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  3. fafaApril 22, 2020 at 6:24 AM

    J'adore toute cette série de différents timbres et cartes postales ,the stamp "Act now or swim later " is one of my favorite but i think too " Jack london ,Nicolas Vanier "but when i hear the word "planet earth" there is a Devo song that comes to my ear :)

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    1. FinnBadgerApril 25, 2020 at 10:25 AM

      I like the fact that the stamps bring so many associations to you.

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    2. fafaApril 25, 2020 at 1:37 PM

      Of course ,did you remember this song ?

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    3. FinnBadgerApril 25, 2020 at 4:15 PM

      I don't know this song. The only one that came into my mind is Duran Duran's 'Planet Earth'.

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    4. fafaApril 26, 2020 at 7:41 AM

      Devo is an American rock band from Akron,Ohio formed 1973 :)

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    5. FinnBadgerApril 28, 2020 at 8:27 PM

      I know the band a little, just not this song.

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