Today is Earth Day. So what can a book lover do help our favorite planet? I've got a few ideas.1. Billions of plastic shopping bags are used every year by shopper worldwide. When you're out book, grocery or WHATEVER kind of shopping, bring your own reuseable shopping bag. They come in every possible color and pattern, so they'll coordinate better with your outfit than the Barnes & Noble logo, anyway.
2. Book crossing! Read your books and then release them into the wild and allow others to enjoy them. Maybe you'll even get a journal entry telling you where they ended up. More people using the same books results in less consumption of resources. And some of you might even end up needing a smaller home if you clear out those book piles. (You know who you are.)
3. Read the Omnivore's Dilemma. You will never think about corn the same way again. While you're at it, read the 100 Mile Diet. Read these books and implement some of the ideas, and you'll not only be helping the Earth, you'll be eating healthier, tastier food!
4. Walk! Walk to the library, walk to the bookstore, walk wherever you can. I don't have to tell you why.
5. Reduce your carbon footprint! There are plenty of things on this list that are very simple to do, but never occurred to me. It's worth scanning through.
So, do you have any suggestions? What do you do for Earth Day? What do you do every day to try and make you and your household more environmentally friendly?
2 comments:
Happy Earth Day!
All of us should do our part to save our planet.
Here is an artistic animated ecard for Earth Day, Blue Planet. It is an underwater production completely with many reef fishes, a turtle, a ray and dolphins.
It is free to send and to spread the important message of saving our planet.
Thanks for the great ideas! I have already started using the reusable bags. :)
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