Earth Day was first established on April 22nd in 1970 and has steadily been growing in acceptance with the citizen of the world. It marked a start of a modern environmental movement and has today become one of the most recognized symbols of the need for global environmental conservation.

The main idea behind the movement was to provide enough backing in order for conservation messages to get through. It was because of the dire need for large organizations like government bodies or multination companies to pursue avenues in their processes that were more ecologically sound.

The main strives were in the fronts of renewable resource usage and also the use of natural products. Just by following the guidelines on the usage of renewable resource and natural products environmental conservation would have taken a very large move forward. A large part of the natural product movement was on proper use of natural organic fertilizers as opposed to the wide use of synthetic chemical fertilizers.

Over the years since the introduction of synthetic fertilizers, their true costs are slowly being felt by long term users of these damaging products. The huge initial crop yields are not long lasting. Over time yields fade and soil fertility drops dramatically as soil is damaged and even sometimes killed due to the chemical leaching and burning they do. As a result soil is subjected to the risk of desertification and soon nothing can crow on the land resulting ultimately and farmer bankruptcy and destroyed land.

Synthetic chemical fertilizers are not only known to destroy soils but are also shown to have devastating affects on water systems surrounding farms. The problem is that chemical fertilizers are highly soluble and thus can leach off soil and follow water into local water systems. The boom in nutrients that chemical fertilizers provide means that weeds and algae will grow uncontrollably and basically suffocate the water system. Eventually all the fish will die causing severe damage to the local ecosystem.

The best alternative is to focus on the use of natural and organic fertilizers. As the products used to manufacture natural organic fertilizers are natural and clean, there is almost no risk of upsetting the local eco-system with their use. The earth really has no place for synthetic chemical fertilizers and its devastating side-affects.

Organic fertilizers make use of raw natural products like litter, compost, scrap fish and even farm wastes. Whatever is taken from the earth in terms of raw input is then returned to the earth in the form of fertilizer. This equality means that the balance of the ecosystem is maintained with very little risk of ever upsetting the balance.

The main problem that the sponsors of Earth Day are experiencing is not so much in the message getting across to large government organizations or even large companies anymore. The work that they have done over the length of approaching 40 years have assured that these large governments and international companies know full well the responsibilities that they have been entrusted with. The problem is getting individual private citizens to contribute towards the cause actively. The new trust of the Earth Day movement is to get everyone involved in the conservation of our planet and ecosystem. Most importantly, the least private citizens can do is to change their fertilizer usage patterns and start using naturally organic products so that leaching and the unbalancing of the local ecosystem doesnt occur.

What damage was done in the past can only be learned from and repaired as best we can. We instead need to look forward and change our over-consumptive ways to improve our environment. Let our children enjoy with 100th year anniversary of Earth Day by saying that their parents were successful.