Get Your Green On for Earth Day

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Earth Day's almost here...Wednesday, April 22. Now's a good time to start Getting Your Green on...for Earth Day and everyday.

Recycle...

Use less... walk, don't ride.

Plant a tree... or start a garden... or find a locavore gardener and set up a produce contract for summer.

Contribute... got a favorite? No? Well, there's Nature Conservancy. World Wildlife Fund. Sierra Club... and that's just for starters. Go ahead, exercise your googlefingers and find the right one for you.

And come Wednesday, show your colors. Get your Green On. Make a statement with the color you wear. Green for Earth Day.

However much else you do is up to you. What're you planning?
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crossposted at firedoglake's Oxdown Gazette

Earth Day

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For all those of us who do not live in Pennsylvania, here are some suggestions for ways we can occupy our day while making our start at saving the planet. Pennsylvanians welcome to join in, too.

Contribute to the Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees campaign. Better yet, contribute and then go out and get your own tree and plant it right in your own backyard.

Starting today, Drive 55. Why wait for somebody else's campaign or legislation? Nobody's stoppin' you...oh, the more foolish may honk their horns, but hey, it's good "greenin'," less pollution emissions into the air, and it'll raise your gas mileage, too.

Recycle—take magazines with you to the doctor's office and the next guy won't have to mutter because everything's months old. Donate books to your local library for their shelves and/or book sales. De-clutter your home, your life, your spirit...donate to thrift stores. Make your mantra "Everything I need I already have."

Stash your re-usable grocery bags in your car, and next time, no matter where you go shopping, take 'em along. The less plastic we use, the less oil needed to make it. The less coin in Chee-knee's pocket.

Whaddya think—how can you be a better planet steward today?...and the day after and....