Friday, March 27th, 2009
Just a friendly Earth Promise reminder that tomorrow night March 28, 2009, at 8:30pm is Earth Hour. This international annual event is held on the last Saturday of March signifying awareness to take action on climate change. Started by the World Wild Life (Australia) in 2007, Earth Hour achieved worldwide participation in 2008. For more information, be sure to visit:
http://earthpromise.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/earth-hour-earth-day-earth-living/
Also let your kid in on the action. Earth Hour Kids invites children and teens to participate in this climate changing event as well.
Be sure to visit the Earth Promise blog as next week we will have 21 fantastic interviews leading up to Earth Day.
Tags: change, changes, climate change, earth, earth day, Earth hour, eco-friendly, environment, global warming, green, green changes, green living, green my home, green practice, green practices, green tips, march 28, promise, reduce
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Michelle Obama’s White House garden is inspiring. The First Lady’s agricultural endeavor both introduces and reminds people to get closer to the land; to conserve Earth’s precious resources; and the importance of growing their own healthy food. For some people this is feasible; for others, both time and natural space interfere with this green-thumb movement. There are many accessible sites to help start your own garden, whether it’s an herb garden in your window sill, planting a fruit tree, or planting a fruit and vegetable garden. Here are some sites to help start your gardening adventure:
· Mother Earth News
· Gardeners
· Southern Living
· Organic gardening
If you fall into the category where time and space hamper your gardening efforts, you still can have access to local fresh vegetables and fruit as well as contribute to lessening your carbon footprint. Think about the toxic chemicals that are needed to preserve the food or the amount of petroleum used to deliver your food. Buying local, like growing your own garden, will help support your local community’s economy; lessen the impact on your environment; and allow you to eat healthily. Now is the perfect time to consider purchasing as much food as possible from local sources. Food Routes, which is part of Food Routes Network, is a non-profit organization that “is dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food – the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to their tables.” The FoodRoutes website provides tips on how to buy more local food, where you can find this food in your community, educates about how buying local affects the environment and your health, and has the latest news on farming today. You can even take part in the Buy Local Challenge . This allows you to show your support to those local farmers in your community. It’s time to revitalize the food movement!
For more tips on how you can make changes in this healthy, local food trend, visit Earth Promise.
Tags: agriculture, carbon footprint, change, changes, community, earth, eco-friendly, environment, farming, Food routes, FoodRoutes, garden, global warming, green, green changes, green thumb, green tips, Green$ense, healthy food, herb garden, land, local food, Michelle Obama, Obama, organic, vegetable garden, white house
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Growing up, I always made the assumption that (clean, drinkable) water would always be available. My wasteful habits are astonishing to look back upon: running water while brushing teeth; not turning the hose off while washing the car; and running the kitchen sink while washing dishes. The millions of gallons of water my family and I wasted make me cringe with disgust. This careless water behavior of mine has come to a screeching halt. The news about our dwindling water supply and countries around the world not having safe drinking water to survive is not so new. With our environment in peril, it’s time to truly make a change in behavior.
Today, the lack of clean water is the second largest killer of children under the age of five. This global crisis is due to the high demand for fresh water in our world. In a 2008 CNN interview with Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, Barlow explained: “One way or another, we have taken accessible clean water … and we have rendered it unusable. We take massive amounts [of water] and we irrigate the desert, where it evaporates. We’re pumping groundwater all over the world far faster that it can be replenished by nature. We are actually running out of fresh, clean water everywhere in the world, including here in North America. We have to give up this myth of abundance. We have come to the limits of the planet.”
How can we help our fragile planet’s water supply? This upcoming March 22nd through March 28th is World Water Week. We can all make an extra effort to support clean water access to everyone around the world. New York City based, Tap Project assists UNICEF’s endeavors to bring clean water to children all over the world. Participating “restaurants would ask their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually enjoy for free.”
Starting in 2007, Tap Project was solely a NYC endeavor with 300 Manhattan-based dining locations. In 2008, it has grown more than 7 fold to 2,300 participators nationally (restaurants, corporations, volunteers, advertising agencies, community groups, local governments and everyday diners).
The Tap Project website allows you to locate a participating restaurant near you. Although it is too late to volunteer or sign up your restaurant for this year’s Tap Project, donations can be made to support UNICEF’s project to provide sanitized water for children around the world.
To kick off 2009’s Tap Project, a walk in both New York City and Chicago will occur. Although it is only a one mile event, the participants are encouraged to carry a minimum of one gallon of water to show support for “the millions of children worldwide who must carry water from distant sources each day.”
Be sure to visit Earth Promise as it has many ideas for you to change your wasteful water habits.
Tags: change, changes, CNN, drinkable water, earth, eco-friendly, environment, global crisis, global warming, green, green changes, green living, green practice, green practices, green tips, Maude Barlow, runnign water, Tap Project, UNICEF, water, water supply
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
American author, poet and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, is best known for his book Walden, a reflection and fascination within his natural surroundings. I have come in contact with a modern day Thoreau, 29-year-old Nathan Winters.
Nathan Winters, avid traveler/explorer and nature devotee, from Lancaster, PA, has decided to live the life he has imagined. As well as being an entrepreneur and product manager in the world of technology, his longtime goal and dream has been to travel across America. Nathan has chosen to do it via bike . He will unite his love of nature with his love of exploration hoping to draw attention to support the conservation of land and nature.
Nathan has developed the site, Follow Nathan where visitors can actually followhis progress on a map; be able to read about his journey via blog; and be able to read a Daily Green Tip. Nathan will conduct video interviews with locals along his sojourn. You will be able to follow his up to minute progress via Twitter, Facebook, Youtube.
Although he has no concrete route, his vision is to begin in Maine and ride through to Washington state.
Nathan’s agenda is clear: preserve nature. Not only does he hope his ride will bring awareness to this important cause, donations can be made to help support his ride and provisions as well as money going towards “the organizations that are devoted to help preserve land and nature.” For every $10 in donations to FollowNathan.org, he will help plant 10 trees which helps protect the environment with the help of one of his partners, Trees For the Future. Also, Nathan will plant 5 trees with every purchase of one of his cool products: messenger bags , coffee mugs and a variety of cool t-shirts for both men and women, (all adorned with the Follow Nathan logo).
FollowNathan.org is not only an impressive site, but an inspiring dream that he is making come true. Pedal on, Nathan Winters!
Tags: bike, change, changes, conservation, earth, eco-friendly, entrepreneur, environment, exploration, Follow Nathan, green, green changes, green living, green practice, green practices, green tips, journey, Nathan Winters, nature, preservation, trees
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