Today, April 22, 2009, is Earth Day!
I’d like to urge everyone to celebrate Earth Day every day! I try my best to celebrate the Earth by recycling, reusing, and buying recycled products.
Here’s some simple tips for you to try at home, if you don’t already.
1. Use cloth napkins rather than paper
2. Use dish towels rather than paper towels to clean up messes and dry dishes; Just don’t use the same one for both tasks.
3. Rather than get a cup of coffee in those paper or Styrofoam cups, use a reusable coffee mug for your car
4. Same goes for your water, soda, and whatever drinks you need on the go; use a reusable bottle, like these from Sigg.
5. Another great tip I saw on Oprah today was to use reusable lunch ware, which you can find here. If you go to Oprah.com, you can a limited time 20% off coupon.
6. If you get plastic bags from the grocery store, you can reuse them to pick up after your pets, rather than buy those individual baggie products to pick up animal waste.
7. If you get paper bags from the grocery store, you can reuse those to cover your kids books, and they can decorate them however they choose.
8. Really, you should use a reusable canvas bag, and I know you book bloggers have them for all those books. Reappropriate one for your groceries.
9. There should be no excuse for not using energy efficient light bulbs, which are widely available and some stores sell them in packages of 4 and 6.
10. Make sure to turn off the water while you brush your teeth and turn off lights in rooms that you are not in or using.
11. My biggest tip is to walk where you can and take public transportation whenever possible.
Earth Day.Net
Smart Living in the Washington Post
A Patchwork of Books‘ Living Green Tips
Green Living Tips
Leaving Green Now
People’s Garden Project
Community Gardening
What tips can you offer? I challenge you to post your living green tips and leave a link here.
***Giveaway Reminder***
Don’t forget to enter the Keeper of Light and Dust giveaway, here and here. Deadline is April 28 at 11:59 PM EST.
There’s a giveaway for 5 copies of Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch, here; deadline is April 29, 2009, 11:59 PM EST.
