Each
year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste
are dumped into US water, according to Neil B. Chambers in his report "How
Infastructure Makes Water Work for Us." And the Tennessee Department of
Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has estimated that 30% of Tennessee’s
streams are of such poor water quality that they can’t support healthy fish and
aquatic wildlife, and nearly 40% are not fit for human recreation. That
is why The Way to Happiness Association of Tennessee (TWTH-TN) wants people to
become more aware and seek out solutions to help the environment. TWTH-TN was formed around the concepts presented in the book
of the same name by humanitarian and author L. Ron Hubbard, and reminded us on World
Environment Day to safeguard and improve our environments with virtual messages
on this theme.  World Environment Day occurs each year on the fifth of June and
is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action
for the protection of the environment. This year the theme was Ecosystem
Restoration.  The Way to Happiness is filled with twenty-one precepts based
on the fact that one’s survival depends on the survival of others. One of these
precepts is “Safeguard and Improve the Environment,” in which Mr. Hubbard
wrote: “Man has gotten up to the potential of destroying the planet. He must be
pushed on up to the capability and actions of saving it. It is, after all, what
we’re standing on.”  According
to unep.org, World Environment Day “…has grown to be a broad, global platform
for public outreach that is widely celebrated by stakeholders in over 100
countries. It also serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something positive
for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power
that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet.”  



















The Way to Happiness Association wants to bring people
together who care, so they can connect and do bigger things. The messages
shared online from The Way to Happiness Association can be found here:
facebook.com/twthtn. For more information on The Way to Happiness Association, visit
twthtn.org.