Today is Earth Day! In elementary school is was the day we always planted a tree. Then there became more focus on recycling. Now it's all about "Going Green".
So I'm watching Oprah today. It was all about going green and what you can do to help Mother Earth. What I loved about the show, was that they offered options for those of us that either can't afford all the organic/chemical free products OR pointed out that you didn't have to do it ALL right now, but choose what you feel you can do now and do it!
I think we all would love to be able to buy all organic foods and products, drive hybrid cars or ride bikes every where. Have homes run on solar power and compost all our waste. However, the reality is, that just isn't possible for most of us and that's ok.
The good news is, there are things that each of us can do to help. We can turn off the light when we leave the room, stop using as many paper products, recycle more and cut back on all the plastic, take advantage of the warm weather (thanks global warming) and dry the clothes on the a clothes line, etc.
So what are we doing at Hokiecrib? I try to buy organic on the crucial things when I can, like produce or at least the ones where we eat the skin (though they had a great solution on Oprah to drastically decrease the pesticides on produce that you can make yourself). We've turned off the lights and other things that take power when we don't need them. We don't buy bottled water. We do have a water service, but we've been trying to use our Eco friendly water bottles instead. We've been much more conservative with our paper products and tonight, I'm really excited about this, I went and bought reusable grocery bags from Trader Joe's. I had a $10 gift card, so I bought 10 bags. They are SOOOOOO CUTE and I love the thought that I won't have to store those stupid plastic grocery bags any more on top of helping to reduce waste!
If you haven't thought about what you can do to make a change, I encourage you to sit with your families and talk it over. Just think of the change we could make if every single person TODAY decided to make just ONE change! HUGE!
http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/homepage/
http://www2.oprah.com/world/enviro/green/informed/informed_resources.jhtml (for other great resources)
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