Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.
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What do we do to help:
We recycle as much as possible, paper, plastic, aluminium and glass.
We reuse plastic shopping bags or even better are trying to remember to stop using them and change to re-usable bags.
We print responsibly.
We do not use pesticides in our garden.
We grow our own fruit and vegetables or use local markets.
We eat locally produced food as much as we can source.
We leave grass cuttings on the grass and do not cut it too short.
We are replanting trees in our garden to replace those that have died.
We have a compost bin.
We are careful with our water usage.
We are in the process of changing all of our light bulbs to low energy ones.
We try to use the car less, this is a hard one, but we do use our Smart Car at least 90% of the time.
I know there are also a lot of things that are bad for the Earth that we still do as well but at least we are trying. Are you, what are you doing to help?
http://sitipernavigare.com/ecologia/giornata-della-terra-in-italia-earth-day-in-italy/
I have joined the group above on Facebook and they have asked us to post about Earth Day on our blogs if we have one!
World Earth Day was first celebrated globally on April 22nd 1970, to highlight the need for the conservation of Earth's natural resources.
This video from You Tube is sponsored by The World Wildlife Fund
Thank you LLM for this wonderful post. You and your Earth-loving actions are perfect examples that each of us should follow.
ReplyDeleteToday my son and I will ride our bikes to the playground with garbage bags and gloves. We will pick up and clean. We'll recycle, switch the lights and water heaters off, and later tonight we will eat our local produce dinner by candlelight!
Ciao
Eleonora
Great post, LindyLouMac. I'm amazed by how much people use their cars here and they are all amazed at me 'cos I haven't got one!
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