Our winner is scoring a super prize package courtesy of Disneynature. This Earth-branded prize pack is valued at $60, and includes a canvas tote, a reusable grocery bag, a biodegradable tumbler, a tree seedling, and more!

And our randomly drawn winner is…

Amber; who said, “This year my children and I will be planting our first family garden, which we hope to have out first peach tree added to as well.”

Congratulations to Amber! I’ll be emailing you asap with info about your prize. Note: check your spam filter if you don’t see an email from me by later today, because I’ll need to hear back from you within three days.

Many thanks to everyone who played. I loved lots of your comments – everyone is doing cool stuff for Earth Day. In fact, later on, I’ll be highlighting some of my favorite comments in a post, so watch for that. Lastly, lots o’ hugs to our great sponsor Disneynature for setting us up with this fab giveaway. Don’t forget to see the movie Disneynature’s Earth within the first week so you can get a tree planted!

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Each year I tend to land more on the side that says, “One day is bull; every day should be Earth Day” so I was happily surprised to see the Grist campaign this year – Screw Earth Day!.

I posted all about this event at Blisstree Green, so if you want, go check it out. In this post there’s info on how you can score a Grist book for free too (which rocks) so even if you’re so on board with Earth Day that it’s not even funny, the post is worth a look.

Coming up later today - the winners of the Disneynature’s Earth Giveaway!

[image via Grist]

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Disneynature is celebrating the release of their premiere film, Earth, by planting a tree in honor of every moviegoer who sees the film in its opening week. This is just one more cool reason why you and the whole family should go see the movie Earth. Besides being a family-friendly nature film, a good time, and a reason to justify overly calorie laden popcorn, it’s great that your outing will help to plant trees.

CONTEST REMINDER!

This post is also your official reminder that our Disneynature’s Earth Giveaway is over very soon. If you haven’t entered to win the great Disneynature’s Earth giveaway package, I’d hop to it. All comment entries must be posted by April 17, 2009 – midnight my time (west coast) – yup folks that’s tonight.

Enter the Disneynature’s Earth Giveaway!

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NOTE: As always, any conventional ingredients you see can be switched out for organic.

Really adorable Earth Day Globe Cookies!

An entire Earth Day meal plan: Mushroom Kebabs, Fresh Fruit and Nut Coleslaw, Angel Hair Pasta and Asparagus, and Earth Day Dirt Cups

Four cool Earth Day meal and treat ideas from Earth Day Milkshakes to Green Juice.

Sticky Sweet Organic Vegan Green Apple Cupcakes

Fruity Frog – super duper cute!

Candied Flowers – beautiful and fun, especially for this time of the year.

Veggie Chips – good for taking along if you’re headed out to an Earth Day event.

Dirt Cake – complete with flower pot and worms!

Earth Day Bars – packed with sweet goodies, but still semi-healthy.

Cut-Out Cookies in a Flower Pot – this would make a great Earth Day gift.

The cutest Earth Day Garden Carrot Cake you will ever see – I’m not joking. I’m talking carrot patches and picket fences!

32 Unique Homemade Popsicle Recipes & Ideas

5 Green Recipes for Spring – This whole Earth Day meal slide show has amazing recipes for a mango and cashew salad; asparagus and potato soup; sugar snap pea salad with quinoa and citrus vinaigrette; artichoke risotto with garlic and sage; and old-fashioned strawberry cobbler.

BONUS: If you are headed outside on Earth Day (as you should be) you might like to read 10 tips for an easy green picnic or green potluck.

Are you cooking on Earth Day? What?

[image via Family Corner]

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ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE:

I recently posted about Disneynature’s Earth – but in case you missed it, here’s a quick recap. Disneynature’s Earth is a brand new Disney flick premiering on Earth Day, April 22, 2009. As noted previously, this flick is narrated by James Earl Jones and follows three families of animals through their daily lives – whales, polar bears, and elephants. This movie is just one of the great ways you and your family can celebrate Earth Day this year. See the movie trailer!

ABOUT THE PRIZE:

One Tree Hugging Family is going to win an amazing prize package courtesy of Disneynature. This Earth-branded prize pack is valued at $60, and includes a canvas tote, a reusable grocery bag, a biodegradable tumbler, a tree seedling, and more!

HOW TO WIN:

Leave a comment on this post telling me how you and your family are celebrating Earth Day this year.

RULES:

1. If you don’t follow the ONE how to enter rule above I’ll delete your comment. Yup, comments that say something lame like, “Hey, enter me” will be deleted.
2. Anyone (minus yours truly) can enter once starting… NOW.
3. Comment entries must be posted by April 17, 2009 – midnight my time (west coast).

I’ll randomly draw a winner on April 18th, post the winner here, and send the winner an email with more details.

Good luck!

[images courtesy of Disneynature’s Earth]

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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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