20 Positive Steps to Celebrate Our Earth

Today is Earth Day.  It is the one day a year when everyone is encouraged to treat our earth kindly.   Today,  I encourage you to do something kind for our environment:

1. Reduce - do you really need it?
2. Refuse - You don't really need it!
3. Reuse - You got it?  Use it again and again.
4. Recycle - After you are done with it - Recycle it.
5. Upcycle and/or repurpose
6. Get outside - relish the wonder that is nature
7. Go to a farmers market (with your own bags)
8. Remember to use your reusable cups / bottle
9. Bake something from scratch
10. Plant a garden
11. Install a rain barrel
12. Ride your bike to the store
13. Plan your errands to reduce driving
14. Turn over that paper and use the back side
15. Set your printer to two-sided printing
16. Take old batteries to be disposed of properly.
17. Ditch the paper towels for cloth. 
18. Take a shorter shower
19. Consider products like LUSH - solid shampoos with no packaging!
20. Try very hard to stop using disposable products, even just perhaps one.  

Want to learn more about Earth Day?  Attend an Earth Day event.  Roseville has one on Saturday in Mahany Park.   Come by The ReCreate Booth and make a boat from "junk" and see if it sinks or floats!

I leave you with this quote from John Muir:

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”

 We only have one earth.  Let us take care of it every single day.