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Earth Day Redux

I sent a series of small tips, thought-provoking items through Twitter on Earth Day last Thursday.  So now, I want to list these all here in case you do not follow me on Twitter.

Eat as locally as you can.  Better for you and better for our environment.  You can read more about my thoughts on eating locally in my guest post at The Kitchen Witch.

Do you compost? http://www.howtocompost.org http://www.composting101.com/

Candlelight is mood setting and energy saving. Eat dinner by candlelight once a week.

Make sure you are using the 3 R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle!

Consider a clothesline as opposed to a dryer: less energy used and less wear and tear on clothing.

It doesn’t take much energy for you to walk back into that room you just left and turn the lights out.

Is it really easier to keep that charger plugged in without the laptop/cell phone/fill in the blank charging?

What does it cost you to walk to the grocery store (if possible) rather than drive?

If you put a cup under the faucet, how much water do you use to brush your teeth?  Wash your face?


Earth Day

I grew up in the late 60′s, having been born at the tail end of the Baby Boomer era.  I remember celebrating the first Earth Day in 1970 but not with US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin who founded the event.  Earth Day was not just a day but was, and still is, a movement.

As I grew older, that movement that Earth Day brought about influenced me more than I probably noticed as  teen.  I wanted to go to school, college for something that would allow me to help the Earth in some way.  I do have an associate’s degree in recreational uses of forest lands.  I, unfortunately, do not use it often enough.

So today, on this fortieth anniversary of that first Earth Day, go out and do something nice for the small section of our Earth that you live on.  Think about ways you can help the Earth and, in turn, help those who live on the Earth.

I strongly suggest reading a view of Belinda Munoz’s posts on the Earth:  How to Celebrate Earth Day Everyday and Our Sick Earth.  And, even though its original publication date is 1962 by Houghton Mifflin (was by their building in Boston this past weekend), Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is as relevant now as it was in 1962.


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