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In celebration of Earth Day, here a few things you can do:

  • Make Homemade Cleaning Supplies (from the David Suzuki Foundation) - This is definitely something I will try next month. Not only are they eco-friendly, they’re cheap to make, too.
  • Say No To Junk Mail. Sign up for the Junk Mail registries in your country like Red Dot Campaign (Canada) and Forest Ethics (USA), or put a sign by your mailbox that you don’t accept junk mail.
  • Re-use packaging. Those boxes and mailers that go with things you ordered? Find ways to reuse them. The paperbags from stores? Re-use them. I use those envelopes and bags for bookkeeping purposes.
  • Bring your own bag for your groceries. Whole Foods is officially eliminating plastic bags today. Here in Canada, the big supermarket, The Real Canadian Superstore, has been doing this for a long time. They charge you for the plastic bag if you opt to get one from them — it disciplines shoppers to either reuse their plastics or pay up.
  • Use old magazines to wrap gifts. I’ll start doing this. Now there’s some use for those old New Yorker magazines! Hah.
  • If you mail a lot of stuff, why don’t you shred your junk mail or the pages from your unwanted phone books and use that as padding instead of plastic bubble wrap? [Well, as long as it doesn't have your info.]
  • I’m sure you can think of other things to do. Please share them in the comments section!

Did you know that we, our food sources, and our Mother Earth, are all related and we’re all affected by what happens to each other? We literally swallow the bad things we do the Earth. The environment provides food for our food, and we eat that food, and well — we do things to the environment — a lot of harmful things, unfortunately.  It’s this inescapable cycle.  If you care about your food (and I know you do!), you should care about the environment. 

Please, please, please…find it in your heart to be good to the environment — Reuse, Reduce, Recycle. Make earth-conscious choices and good changes in your life, even little by little. That’s how it starts. :-)

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