@Team Honeybunnies wrote:
Earth Day is my birthday, so it’s an easy one to celebrate. Who else has cake at their Earth Day celebration? 8)
happy bEARTHday!
Other steps to be taken on Earth Day and thru out the year…
Take a moment today and celebrate the earth!
Step1-Pitch in on an Earth Day project near you, whether it’s a beach cleanup, a tree planting or an urban “Alley Rally” to gather up debris and cart it off to recycling plants. Check your local newspaper for listings, or contact the closest Audubon or Nature Conservancy office.
Step2-Join an environmental group. Nearly all the national organizations publish informative newsletters and magazines, offer discounted admission to parks and wildlife sanctuaries, and organize guided tours of natural places near and far.
Step3-Support downtown businesses – in your own city and in those you visit for business or pleasure. You’ll be doing your bit to curb urban sprawl, the No. 1 destroyer of wildlife habitat, farmland and open space. (For information, contact the Main Street USA division of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.)
Step4-Plant some native trees, shrubs or flowering plants in your yard. To find out which plants hail from (and therefore do best in) your neck of the woods, explore nearby parks, nature preserves and native-plant nurseries. (Ask your local Nature Conservancy chapter for recommendations and plant inventories.)
Step5-Furnish your digs with antiques and quirky finds from thrift shops, secondhand stores and flea markets. You’ll be practicing recycling in its highest form, and you’ll have a nest with more character than you could ever buy at a trendy home-furnishings store.
Step6-Buy a few large canvas shopping bags and take them along when you do your grocery shopping. Then, when the checkout clerk asks, “Paper or plastic?” just say, “Neither, thanks.” Choose bags that are big and strong enough to do the job and attractive enough that you’ll want to use them.
Step7-Read “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson’s 1962 classic that spearheaded the whole environmental movement in the United States. While you’re at it, introduce yourself and your kids to another of Ms. Carson’s mind-altering books, “A Sense of Wonder.”
Step8-Go cold turkey on herbicides, pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
Step9-Leave your car at home and walk, every chance you get. As you go along, pay attention to the life around you – birds, insects, trees, flowers, even the plants we call weeds. That’s all for now: Just pay attention.
