happy almost earth day, kind lifers!
Get your Earth Day on!
Check out all of these great ways you can make a huge difference for your health and the health of our home, the Earth:
1. Follow a kind diet following a plant-based diet is the best thing you can do for yourself and the planet. If you need help getting started, get your hands on a copy of my book then check out the forum here on The Kind Life for a wonderful community that will support you on your kind journey!
2. Calculate your carbon footprint find out what your carbon footprint is and if you don't like the answer, I've included some tips for reducing it.
3. Make some Earth Day eco resolutions here are some ideas for kind meals for work and school, getting involved with your community, and showing others about a kind lifestyle.
4. Make a habit of conserving water some easy and important tips for decreasing water waste.
5. Reduce, reuse, and recycle - some tips for being less wasteful at home and at the office.
6. Be conscious with every flush how to make your trip to the toilet a little more kind. Plus, some tips on saving toilet paper.
7. Avoid plastic bottles why plastic water bottles are nasty and how to avoid them.
8. Be the neighborhood sheriff how to talk to your neighbors (or friends, for that matter) about their unkind or wasteful ways.
9. Unplug your electronics some energy-saving tips for your household electronics.
10. Know when to say "no" how to avoid waste when getting take-out food.
11. Recycle your electronics here are some locations and resources to help you recycle your electronics. Also try ebay's easy electronics resale program!
12. Travel green - where to find kind traveling luggage.
13. Diaper the kind way a green way to diaper.
And in honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share with you this great video from the first Earth Day in 1970. This was on CBS News Special Report with news legend Walter Cronkite.
HAPPY EARTH DAY!
What are you doing to celebrate Earth Day?
For more on Earth Day, check out some of my past Earth Day posts:
happy earth day!
oprah's earth day advice
earth day is coming!!!
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This EARTH DAY I decided to start a Healthy Lifestyle Challenge- it will be 21 days, there will be at least one challenge EVERYDAY, if not more! And lots of information and tips to share, maybe with your comments I can learn something from you too! SO.....come and watch my videos, subscribe to them and just maybe we can make a difference in the world around us, one step at a time, one day at a time!.....By the way in my first video, I did mention Alicia's book!.....It was one of my reasons for the challenge!
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Alicia, thank you for the reminder and the flashback to Earth Day 1! I think people forget that before the environmental movement the skies were dark and communities stank. Mills could dump any old poison into waterways and DDT was the norm! We have come a LONG way, really and if we hadn't gotten off our duffs in favor of Mama Gaia, the world would be a dark smelly dangerous place. I read the blog of an American expat living in Paris who journeyed to rural China last year only to discover to her horror there are no bird or insects. Can you imagine? Empty skies, no bird song, no bees or dragonflies, hand pollinating EVERYTHING. The whole world could be like that if we let our Mother down.
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For me, earth day will be a great day of cleaning, organizing and packing things up for the Goodwill store. And doing some gratitude meditations as well :-) And of course a massive plant-based meal with friends and family!
I so agree about the important of community. Right now I'm just organizing a local potluck for clients, friends and anyone interested in learning.
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At least 3 of us from our vegetarian small group will set up a table at our community Earth Day festival and we will hand out brochures and some vegan tasters and invite people to come to our vegetarian potluck and check out the group. It is a great way to network with people in our community to show that there is a group that meets every month and that they are welcome to join us and learn about a plant-based diet. This is important community outreach and we make a point of making our presence seen where ever we can so people can see a different way of life other than the traditional SAD that is so typical.
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