Earth Day

Earth day is celebrated yearly on April 22. Over 1 billion people from 192 countries all over the world will participate to help depict this year\’s theme Earth Day: The Face of Climate Change. Do you try to lower your carbon footprint to help save the planet? Is riding a bike your way of helpingContinue reading “Earth Day”

Earth Day – April 22nd!

Do you care about the environment? Do you actively try to save the planet? The Environmental Protection Agency offers many ways you can commit to protect the environment this Earth Day: Pick five activities to save the environment. Participate in the Environment in a Day photo project or Six Words for the Planet contest. FindContinue reading “Earth Day – April 22nd!”

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Easy Ways to Conserve H2O

With the current drought conditions in Texas and most other southern states, conserving water has become an urgent need, and it\’s a need that each of us can take steps to address.For starters, check out the eBay Green Team\’s 10 easy water-saving tips that can “significantly cut back on the 80 gallons of H2O thatContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Easy Ways to Conserve H2O”

Learn More, Get Involved, Take Action — Useful Top Tens

It\’s Top Ten Tuesday, plus April is Keep America Beautiful month, Thursday is Earth Day, and April 30th is Arbor Day. What a great time to check out ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, as well as embrace going green. 10 Top Tens: Ideas, Tips, Resources, and News Emerging Environmental Technologies – from LiveScience EndangeredContinue reading “Learn More, Get Involved, Take Action — Useful Top Tens”

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Songs for Earth Day

Earth Day was founded back in 1970 and falls on April 22nd each year. To help celebrate, I thought I would share one of my favorite places to find out about music – the Y! Music Playlist. They have created this Top 10 Earth Day songs playlist. Read their blog post to find out moreContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Songs for Earth Day”

Thinking and Living Green!

Earth Day is April 22 & Arbor Day is April 24! What a great time to consider what we can all do to \”live a little greener,\” which is something many of us long to do. However, it\’s often hard to find out how to go about doing that. To meet this information need, DiscoveryContinue reading “Thinking and Living Green!”

Turn Off Goes Green…

A Joint Project of Earth Day Network and Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness Did you know that the average television consumes 200-300 kilowatt-hours per year, accounting for an estimated 3-4% of the annual electronic usage in the USA. That’s a whopping 46.9 billion kilowatt-hours a year! Or, in environmental terms, approximately 36 million tons of carbonContinue reading “Turn Off Goes Green…”