Today it is estimated over 20 million people have participated in annual gatherings to promote good environmental stewardship of the planet. It's now observed each year by more than 500 million people and national governments in 175 countries.

Some doable ideas I have seen on-line to think about include:

  1. Skipping 1 car trip each week. Woman’s Day reported this would prevent the emission of 950 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
  2. Sending e-card once and a while instead of paper cards. Americans buy six billion greeting cards a year --on average, 60 cards per household per year. If 10-thousand people switched to sending e-cards or making their own from paper around the house, 400 trees a year could be saved.
  3. Lowering your thermostat by just a few degrees. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in CO estimates that just one degree can save three percent of your energy output as well as another three percent of your energy costs.
  4. Switch your most used lights for compact florescent The Alliance to Save Energy says: If every U-S household replaced their four most-used 100-watt incandescent bulbs with four 23-watt compact fluorescent bulbs, the country would save as much energy as is produced by 30 power plants annually.
  5. Switch to reusable coffee cups. According to Killthecup.com the use of reusable cups stops hundreds of pounds of waste diverted from landfills, thousands gallons of water saved and tons of carbon dioxide emissions from being released into the atmosphere.
  6. Reusable grocery bags, each year more cities ban plastic shopping bags. They plug up our landfills and oceans and are dangerous to many kinds of wildlife.
  7. Plant a tree....this summer:)

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