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Earth Day Celebrates its 40th Anniversary on April 22, 2010
01 year ago
Here is a great manageable list of things you can do with your family to celebrate Earth Day. It’s the little things that make a big difference in our lives and in the Earth. Starting kids early learning about treating Mother Nature well helps set up a strong foundation for their future and ours.
A GeekyMomma’s Blog: Earth Day Celebrates its 40th Anniversary on April 22, 2010.
Here’s a list of fun activities you can do with your kids to teach them about the environment.
· Pull out invasive plants and replace them with native species.
· Ride bikes, walk or take public transit.
· Volunteer at a local Earth Day event.
· Write a letter to a local policymaker.
· Start a family garden and grow healthy food. Start a compost pile and use a rain barrel.
· Switch out light bulbs for energy- efficient CFLs.
· Learn about the history of the environmental movement. Use activity ideas from Earth Day Network lesson plans.
· Paint an eco- mural. Use green art supplies.
· Make art from recycled objects.
· Play educational games Environmental Jeopardy.
· Use the interactive online Ecological Footprint quiz.
· View and discuss films on Earth Day TV.
· Clean up your playground, schoolyard, walking paths or watershed.
· Hold a recycling or waste reduction contest.
· Take your kids outside.
· Compost your good scraps.
Here is also the Official Earth Day website: THE OFFICIAL EARTH DAY 2010 CAMPAIGN – April 22, 2010 | Earth Day Network.
Reuse, Recycle & Reduce: Kids Konserve
11 year ago
I recently read about this product: Kids Konserve: A Common Theme … Helping The Environment. Sounds like a great company with a very good mission. I am always looking for ways to reduce our families footprint. I’m not perfect but where I can, I do. I am sure we all have ways we are trying to conserve and teach our families the 3 Rs – Reuse, Recycle & Reduce!
The Kids Konserve waste-free lunch kit and other reusable products were the natural outgrowth of what two women saw as a big need that required immediate attention. With the premise that any business they undertook had to help the environment in some way, it didn’t take much imagination to see how they, as parents of young children, were contributing to garbage landfills, pollutants and sending the wrong message to their own children. How could they set an example of conservation for their children and empower them to be the examples of change for the future?
Focusing on how school lunch programs operate opened their eyes and propelled them to create Kids Konserve. Calculating the amount of trash being produced each day at their own schools during the lunch hour alone, shocked them enough to begin more research into reusable products that dramatically cut down on Earth’s ever growing garbage pile.
