Tomorrow is Earth Day, and it turns up with the kind of global necessity not or never felt since the holiday was created some 37 years ago.

This Earth Day is different as it arrives with a recent report by the UN based International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned of significant impacts on the marginalized poor and on over 1/3 of the animal species on earth - many of which are found in Indonesia - a prospect that increasingly engulfs every nook of the planet.

Today the world struggles with what scientists have described as the most overwhelming threat to life on the planet: global warming - many are increasingly concerned about climate change and human impacts on our planet but concerns are not enough and aren’t working either. Instead of announcing usual concerns about global warming, Xcel Energy staged a tree planting in Minneapolis.

It is not to be taken only as a day of praising all things green. This weekend, thousands of Earth Day events across the world, from seminars to celebrations, will join in an urgent call for action on global warming. The scientific case for human-induced causes of global warming has gained substantial ground.

In a much-awaited report, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that it was 90 percent certain that pollution is the main culprit. The primary form is carbon dioxide from autos, power plants and industry.

Xcel CEO Richard Kelly said.

I believe there is climate change and as far as I’m concerned, the debate is over.

Rightly, the debate is over and the heat is on but I don’t think if US president Bush feels the same way. Bush can take the heat of global warming as well as he planned not to take any new action to impose caps on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming despite the Supreme Court ruling earlier this month.

Mulling again and again over global warming and its effects only shows our helplessness and highlights the fact that we started late but there is still time for each of us to ask ourselves what we are doing. Earth Day is a good opportunity to meet head-on with our personal responsibility to act collectively against global warming.

What pledges can you take to go green at a personal level? Give a shot at these:

• Recycle where you can. Do not let consumerism consume your greener stance. Go and check out great second hand stuff.

• Switch off that bulb please, every time you leave the room. Not only is it a waste of money but also of an energy resource.

• Tap the power of the Sun by installing solar or photocell systems. Moreover, the plus is that they will also get you tax credits.

• Go plant a tree in your neighborhood or garden, instead of a manicured garden try to introduce some wild plants in it.

If not all, at least take on a few of these earth day tips! Wishing you all, a greener Earth Day 2007!