LIVBLUE: Share a Blue Marble
April 24, 2009
[Updates: 10‘s of thousands of blue marbles are circulating the Earth: Blue marble movement at NatureWorm, Niagara Falls, Tribeca, IMCC, Monterey Bay Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences, Stanford Middle School, spreading all over the world with coverage in HuffingtonPost]
When you get a blue marble from someone, you’ll know what to do.
Because they’ll explain.
Commit random acts of ocean kindness...wherever you are.
Then tell us your blue marble’s story with links to photos or video of your blue marble in the comments section below.
And write about it on your own blog, facebook, or twitter, post images and video to flickr and youtube, keyword “bluemarbles.org”. (Look at photographer Neil Osborne’s blue marble portraits)
But be sure to share your blue marble within 24 hours...with someone who is living like they love our blue planet.
BlueMarbles.org will share the results and the journeys of these
thousands of blue marbles and the people they reach on Jacques Cousteau’s 100th Birthday, in June 2010 in honor of World Ocean Day and the man who first brought the wonders of our big blue marble to so many of us.
It's a simple idea: commit a random act of ocean kindness by sharing a blue marble forward with someone doing good things for our blue planet and tell them to do the same.
The Blue Marble, is a famous photograph taken of the Earth by astronauts on December 7, 1972. It is likely the most widely distributed photographic image in existence. The image is one of the few to show a fully illuminated Earth, as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image. To the astronauts, Earth had the appearance of a glass marble (hence the name, Blue Marble).
When you get a marble, pass it along within 24 hours with the message to do the same...around and around the blue marbles will go...around the big Blue Marble, our ocean planet.
Contact Marble King @ 304-337-8337 or berifox@marbleking.com to order blue marbles in one of many sizes or shades. Orders of larger numbers will cost less per marble (between 3 and 10 cents per marble).
You can also order blue marbles from Moon Marble.
Or 25mm glass Earth Marbles in 5 lb bags.
Your local antique shop or toy store likely has some blue marbles too.
Watch marbles being made of recycled glass at Marble King HERE, too cool!
Tens of thousands more blue marbles are traveling out in to the world at talks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cornell University, California Academy of Sciences, New England Aquarium, Stanford University, Gateway School, in El Salvador, South Africa, Panama, India, Fiji, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Washington DC, Indiana, Virginia, New York City...
Leave a comment below, a photo or a link to a video, letting us know how you’re playing with blue marbles!
Flickr slide show, add your Blue Marble photos!
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