EARTH DAY IS COMING UP

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APRIL 22, 2011

So, what are you doing??



You can do something simple like;

• Recycle! (which should be an everyday thing -_-)
• Pick up a piece of trash you see outside.
• Buy eco-friendly products.
• PLANT A TREE!!
• Use a power strip to turn off televisions, stereos and computer systems when you're not using them and unplug appliances such as phone chargers, extra refrigerators, and printers until you need them.
• Shorten your shower time!
• When you go grocery shopping, buy in bulk. This way there is less packaging and its also cheaper in the long run.
• Reduce, reuse and recycle all day long.
• Wear green and/or brown. Dress in environmental colors for the day; think "tree"!
• Engage others in conversations about your environmental concerns.
• Ride your bike
• Refuse to use paper for the day.
• Install a CFL or compact fluorescent light bulb.
• Also, bring your own reusable shopping bag. You can buy them at local grocery stores.
• Buy organic.
• Go meat free.

But if you really want to go hard..

• Volunteer at your local river/lake for a clean up. (Just contact your nearest lake officials. Google is your friend :) )
• Take public transportation of the day. Buses/trains/metro/car pool.
• Take the time to finally fix that leaky faucets and pipes
• Host a waste-free picnic with friends and family.
• Every night for a week, collect your household garbage and weigh it on your bathroom scale. Record your results every few weeks and celebrate your success as your trash slims down.
• Start composting.
• Consider buying a carbon offset to make up for the greenhouse gas emissions you create on the other 364 days of the year. Carbon offsets fund reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through projects such as wind farms, that displaces energy from fossil fuels.

For more ideas, check out Mother Nature Network

Environmental Quotes

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The earth does not belong to man -- man belongs to the earth.
-- Chief Seattle

I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature".
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-- John Muir

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
-- Native American Proverb

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
-- Henry David Thoreau

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
-- Barry Commoner

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
-- Thomas Fuller

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
-- Ralph Nader

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
-- Gaylord Nelson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
-- Tom McMillan

Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?
-- Groucho Marx

We have met the enemy and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
-- Henry David Thoreau

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
— Bill Vaughan

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.
-- Gaylord Nelson

Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

The earth is what we all have in common.
-- Wendell Berry

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man.
-- Chief Seattle

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-- George Gordon, Lord Byron

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
-- Cree Indian Proverb

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.
-- Kahlil Gibran