We recently had a fun giveaway here at Tree Hugging Family – Disneynature’s Earth Giveaway, where I asked readers to share their Earth Day plans. Some of the answers were really nice, so I wanted to share.
Mary: “My family and I are extremely energy and resource conscious so for Earth Day – no TV or un-necessary energy/electric consumption! In addition, we plant flowering trees, etc and recycle with a vengeance!”
Brian N: “In a way that makes a real difference – not just turning off a light switch – we are going vegan….for our health, for the earth, and for the slaughtered animals.”
Carol H: “I will be celebrating with my job. I work in public health and we are having a nutrition conference out of town that day. We are giving to each participant an Ecousable water bottle (thanks to the idea from yours truly) and green shirts with frogs on them that say something about going green. My family is planting a vegetable garden for the first time this year!”
Jodi Plume: “We’ve already started actually. Last week we cleaned up a nice stretch of the stream behind our house & our road. We collected a bag full of trash, then sorted the recyclables. We’re planning on going to see Disneynature’s Earth movie with out Earth Scouts group and are also planning some other trash pickup’s with them. Then my kids and I will also be planting a veggie garden this year. 
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Anne: “My husband and I are planting a herb garden on our balcony and we are taking part in some tree planting in our community! We will also be planting my mom and dads garden for them this year!”
Melissa: “This year I will try to make conscious living contagious. I plan on bringing a bunch of seedlings, herb and vegetable seed packets, etc. as Earth Day gifts for my co-workers. Each will have a small info card about the day and also a request to “pay it forward” and do something nice for someone else. (I believe joy and giving are contagious as well.)”
Dawn: “This year my husband and I are making a more conscious decision to recycle all that we can, walking our recyclables to the recycling center at least once a week. We are trying to use our towns public transportation more, and we have made a definite decision to use only reusable grocery bags. We have also started hand washing most of our clothes and hang drying them. And we are planting our first garden, trying to learn more about edible landscaping and such. We are trying to do our part, to make up for our ignorance in the past.”
Amajean: “Earth day is probably THE biggest holiday for my family all year. I teach a “Green Kids Awareness” class at my children’s school and this year we are having an upcycling contest all month. On earth day the children are going to host an earth day ’swap’. In addition to exchanging the trash to treasures they’ve made they are going to bring old toys that they don’t use anymore, clothes etc. that are in good shape for trading. What doesn’t go home with someone new will go to the Thrifty store. The kids have also been learning about the environmental impact of meat, cheese and grocery products. We have a vegan recipe that we are going to prepare from as much locally acquired materials as possible (my fam grows veggies in containers inside year round)
We plan on going on a field trip to the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden Colorado and checking out the Disney Earth movie after that!
It gets worse…. my kids have made special ‘compost tea’ for all of our plants at home – we have them ALL named. Mordechai the Basil is our favorite….. so we are going to have a tea party with our plants before bed, at which we intend to meditate with several friends meditating with their plants in their homes across the country at the same time for more positive energy for the earth – kind of like the 1111 meditation. (g00gle it if you don’t know bout it – its pretty neat)”
Crystal Jackson: “We are homeschoolers and will be learning and celebrating Earth Day all week long. We plan to tie dye shirts for our family to wear to all the festivities, field trip to our recycling center, building our new compost bin, finishing up our square foot garden, and ending the week at an Earth day festival on Saturday.”
Jessica: “My family and I ( husband and 6 year old daughter ) will be celebrating Earth Day by baking all of our friends organic carrot cake and sharing our knowledge of being an earth friendly family! We are throwing a small get together Earth Day Party and giving out recycled grocery bags for shopping for each family!”
I actually liked many more of the Earth Day comments, but there’s not room for all of them. I picked the ones above as faves because they highlight long-term changes, which is vital, I think to celebrating Earth Day. Hopefully some of these reader comments will inspire you to live greener and to set your own Earth Day goals.
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