Denis Hayes, Earth Day Network

Denis Hayes is chair of Earth Day Network. He was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day in 1970 and now earns his keep as president of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, Wash. He is also author of the new book The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair.

More of the same. A drive-time radio show in Boulder. A spot on CNN Headline News. I miss a satellite interview with a Miami station (Earth Day and Elian -- together at last). I'm abject, and the station graciously reschedules for tomorrow.

On it goes. The Washington Post. The Toronto Globe and Mail. Grassroots.com. The Washington CBS affiliate. (The weather man who interviewed me said it was going to rain in Washington, D.C., on Earth Day. I said, on the air, "No it won't." I may have burned that bridge.)

Mixed with all this, I have to spend quality time with one of our lawyers over some legal matters that simply cannot wait. I continue my game of tag with prominent business executives and a couple stellar scientists who still haven't decided whether to talk on the Mall. Finally, I leave a message for one that it's too late. It's past time to reach closure.

I sort through an avalanche of email, too much of it from nuts and opportunists. I may have to change my email address again; this is out of control.

I body slam a couple organizational crises by simply making arbitrary decisions. I hope they are the right decisions, but in the end that's less important than that we choose and move on. We have three days left until Earth Day.