Here’s a nifty quote I just found…..
“This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”- Chief Seattle, Native American.
Earth from space, ain’t she beautiful?
A bit of the history of Earth Day from our friends at Care2.com: “Unlike the first Earth Day in 1970, the 20th anniversary in 1990 became a huge event thanks in part to greater television and radio coverage and a multimillion dollar budget. More than 200 million people in 141 countries participated helping to lift environmental issues onto the world stage. Earth Day 1990 helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.”
May your joys be many,
may you soak in the light,
may the flowers in your garden bloom,
sweet and bright.
Happy Earth Day!
Diane T. and furfamily
Today is Green Grove Thursday….Posted in biodiversity, Breaking News, charity/activism, electric cars, energy efficiency, environment, Free Stuff, fun stuff, general interest, green living, Nature/ the Earth, organic living, recycling, renewable energy
Tagged Earth Day, Earth Day events 2013, fun stuff to do, green activities, Green Grove Thursday, green living
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Tagged 31 Days of Notable Women, Buzzcar, Robin Chase, women entrepreneurs, women in business, Womens History Month
According to an article in Mother Earth News, “it costs only $1 for today’s all-electric vehicles to travel the same distance as a similar-sized gasoline car would on a gallon of fuel.”
To read more nifty tips about EV’s (electric vehicles), check out the rest of the article at: http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/ten-things-electric-vehicles-zwfz1212zhar.aspx?newsletter=1&utm_content=12.21.12+GEGH&utm_campaign=2012+GEGH&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email
Their free online magazine is greener than ever!
I’m dreaming…of a GREEN Christmas!
Here are three Green tips for your holidays:
* In the U.S., annual trash from gift-wrap and shopping bags totals 4 million tons.
Green it: Use gift bags, which can be saved by the recipient and used time and time again. Or, wrap your gifts in scarves, which can also be part of the gift.
* The 2.65 billion Christmas cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high. If we each sent one card less, we’d save 50,000 cubic yards of paper.
Green it: Send all your online friends and family free ecards from JibJab.com, myfuncards.com, amerciangreetings.com or punchbowl.com, to name a few.
* Each year, 50 million Christmas trees are purchased in the U.S. Of those, about 30 million go to the landfill.
Green it: Buy a living tree and replant it in your yard after Christmas, or in your local mountains or parks. Or, get a fake tree and use it year in and year out. If you miss the smell of a pine tree, get a big pine-scented candle and burn it to release the smell of pine into your home.
* If you have people on your list who “have everything” consider making a donation to their favorite charity in their name and do everyone involved a world of good!
Green it: Send the donations to animal shelters, National Resource Defense Council (NRDC), or your favorite environmental advocacy group!
The above statistics* were found at the Recycleworks website, however the suggestions on Greening it are all mine!!!
Here’s some information I’d like to share about the live Christmas tree vs. the fake Christmas tree debate.
We have over 20 large trees on our property already (many of which we planted, including two Christmas pines). Now that we don’t have any more room for trees, we contacted the City of Pasadena about replanting a live Christmas tree anywhere in the city. They kindly refused saying that they were concentrating on “planting only indigenous trees” so that the water consumed by the new trees would be less than non-indigenous trees (like the huge pines). We called conservation groups, the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, all had run into the same restrictions. So, if we do get a live tree, where will we plant it after Christmas?
Posted in environment, Finish this sentence, gardening, general interest, green living, Holiday Trivia, Nature/ the Earth
Tagged Boy Scouts of America, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas trees, environmental awareness, environmentally friendly holidays, Girl Scouts of America, green living, Pasadena, Pasadena CA
From our good friends at the Water Environment Research Foundation:
“In many communities, when it storms heavily, the rainwater combines with the sewage and overwhelms the system – causing sewers to overflow into nearby streams and lakes.
Help stop these combined sewer overflows from occurring in your community. Learn how to install a rain garden and capture that storm water for absorption into the ground. By slowing it down and spreading it out, storm water can become a real asset to trees and wildlife in your neighborhood and your garden.”
To learn how to build a rain garden, visit http://www.werf.org/liveablecommunities/index.htm
Green Grove Thursday…..
find out how to creatively use more of your throw-aways on this neat FB page!
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Tagged FaceBook, Green Grove Thursday, recycling, trash, waste
Green Grove Thursday….for the latest in renewable energy news, events, technological developments and environmental concerns, you can get a free email subscription to Renewable Energy Magazine at: www.renewableenergymagazine.com
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