Peggy and I would like to send big hugs and thanks to everyone who participated in our Earth Day Count Down event! It was great to see everyone’s green point of view. Now, if you’re a Tree Hugging Family reader, and you missed even one of these posts, well, now is your chance to catch up…

April 1 Green architecture and design

April 2 recycle with kids tips posted read tip #1 and tip 2

April 3 Grow green gardens and lawns, not green streams and rivers

April 4 Green interiors: how to turn junk into home decor

April 5 Everyday is Earth Day for Prince Charles

April 6 Wrap greener holiday gifts

April 7 Get eco-organized

April 8 A super cool eco game for kids and adults

April 9 Your water and it’s carbon footprint

April 10 Growing your own herbal tea

April 11 Celebrating Earth Day with your baby

April 12 Marriott Golf Courses go green

April 13 Hello? Earth to Humans!

April 14 Green resources for job seekers plus going green and indie

April 15 6 amazing uses for an old bathtub

April 16 How going green can save you some green at tax time

April 17 Sources for cool recycled gifts

April 18 Digging in the dirt for Earth Day

April 19 35 accessories made from recycled materials

April 20 6 creative ways to save cash and gas

April 21 Reasons to buy Fair Trade Cocoa & where to purchase

As you can see, there was a ton of green variety this month. Check out all of the above; you won’t be disappointed. You might even find a new favorite blog to read.

Don’t forget – the Bloggy Contests are going on all week.

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I tried to pick posts that can help you live every single day greener. Earth Day is fine and dandy, and I’m pleased that so many celebrate on this one day, but it’s not enough. Use these posts to get into a mind set that every day is Earth Day. We can’t save the world in one day, that’s impossible.

From the emails I get telling me that I’m nuts for even considering the dangers of global warming and bleach it’s easy to get frustrated. It can make it seem like we’re actually doing minus what we should be doing. We’re not just up against hard topics, we’re up against hard topics and all the people who one, don’t care, or two, don’t believe we’re facing hard topics.

The posts below are easy takes on the every day issue of living greener. Easy for anyone to try, easy to take, and maybe they’ll lead to more and more green steps in your every day world.

Here’s what I found:

First up, if you haven’t heard, TIME has gone green with the current issue waging war on global warming – I need to pick this up, to see what they have to say beyond their website. However, what I can tell you is that they have an absolutely stunning photo essay on trees in the issue. It’s a must see.

The 20 Most Earth-ish T-shirts on the Web – this post rocks

Try slowing down – it’s not always a great idea to live in the fast lane

Living almost off the grid

Make your own solar water heater!

Natural nail polish remover – something I’ve been looking for forever – nail polish, not so eco-friendly, and I still like it, this will help.

Books to teach kids about the environment

The freedom of frugality – with a nice calm, family/green slant

Get your own lead paint tester for toys

Seriously take the time today to consider what you can do as a family this year to save the planet. The people who don’t believe we’re doing harm, who don’t think we cause major pains to the planet with our thoughtless actions, they’re wrong. I wish they were right, I wish we could just live any old way and be just fine, but deep down we know they’re wrong.

All of you reading this, the people thinking about what they can do, the individuals who are taking small steps every day just may be what saves the earth and the health of all of us who live here.

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As promised, Peggy and I have an Earth Day event running all month. We were trying to come up with what to do here for Earth Day, and that’s a tough one for us. We could blog green – but frankly we always blog green. How we could blog greener seemed to be pushing it.

That said, we put a call out to our b5media friends and asked them to write about green topics, from the perspective of their blog for a day. This is cool on many levels. You’re going to get to know some of our pals blogs, and we all get to learn about some new earth-friendly topics from another blog’s point of view.

Starting today we’ll be counting down to Earth Day by featuring different b5 bloggers and their green posts each day. We’ve got all kinds of cool blogs playing along; blogs about, cooking, sports, parenting, business, gardening, music, health, and more. It’ll be great to see what these blogs offer up all month. Each of our Earth Day posts will have the earth photo at the top, so they’ll be easy to spot.

We’re kicking off this event with a blogger you already know – me

You may know (or not) that I also blog at Offbeat Homes, a blog covering unusual structures. I also tend to cover many a green structure though (it is me) so since no one seemed to want to volunteer for the 1st, I did. Here are a few of my favorite green posts from Offbeat Homes.

If you’re looking for super tiny homes then you have to check out the earth friendly Tumbleweed Homes. There’s also a Tumbleweed follow up.

Possibly my most favorite reclaimed home on the planet. Or maybe it’s this green home that’s my fave.

Last up: Four Great Examples of Eco-Architecture

Tomorrow we’ve got a great health blogger you won’t want to miss, so stay tuned.

[photo via stock.exchange]

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