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.






14 comments:

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

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    4. I have a couple of them to be sent.

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

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

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    2. Of course ,did you remember this song ?

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

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

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