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Home > Happy Earth Day! - oops 7 days early ;)

Happy Earth Day! - oops 7 days early ;)

April 15th, 2006 at 03:29 pm

It's April 15th and Earth day today. Saving money, frugality and environmetal awareness can go hand in hand. Reducing consumption, reusing items, recycling, buying used, cutting back on unnecessary driving - all of these are good for the bank account and good for the planet.

I

posted a few ideas to explore for Earth Day at DivaTribe:

1. walk, ride a bike, use mass transit or carpool
2. clean up a park, beach, lot or street
3. bring your own bags to the store, or decline a bag if you don't need one
4. wash your clothes in cold water, or line dry them
5. air dry your dishes in the dishwasher instead of using the dry cycle
6. set up recycling at home or work for paper, aluminum cans or 1 and 2 plastics
7. find your nearest thrift store or used book store and take some time to explore it
8. buy organic this weekend for produce or milk
9. save gift wrap and tissue paper to be ironed and used again
10. grow something edible in a the ground or in a pot

Have a good Earth Day everyone. Smile

Posted in General Musings | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Happy Earth Day! - oops 7 days early ;)”

kashi Says:
April 15th, 2006 at 03:55 pm 1145116558
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I think technically Earth Day is next Saturday (the 22nd), according to this site: http://www.earthday.org. Wonderful ideas for saving the planet! I'm trying to grow basil right now...
DivaJen Says:
April 15th, 2006 at 04:02 pm 1145116977
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Oops - DD's school is having their big celeration today, so I assumed it was today. That's what you get for assuming...
Ha ha - can I post-date my entry? lol!
boomeyers Says:
April 15th, 2006 at 04:30 pm 1145118621
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I like the ironing the tissue paper. Great idea!
contrary1 Says:
April 15th, 2006 at 04:37 pm 1145119031
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I've scrapped using tissue & wrapping paper all together. One of my kids a few decades ago, came from a family that had made gift bags. Using fabric of any sort of holiday color (they had chosen red & green prints and plaids), they made drawstring bags of different sizes. Everyone opened their gift, kept the bags and re used the following Christmas. They also had bags for other occasions.......
This makes a great beginning project when teaching someone how to sew also..........thus, our collection of bags now.

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