Happy Earth Day!

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by caramba

Happy Earth Day! Some great ideas here....

We are doing a big green expo in NYC this weekend with our milk paint (and one in Chicago next month).
Earth Day (or Earth Week) has been a good opportunity for us to have lots of new people try our paint, which we donated to a couple of events. Today a 'green' mural is being painted in LA on the corner of Wilshire Blvd. by a bunch of little kids, as part of their Earth Day celebration.
And last weekend in Central Park a big 500 foot mural was painted by 1000 people, on 6" x 6" pieces of canvas that are being stitched together by Paul Kostabi, a pretty well known contemporary artist. And we are especially excited that there is a documentary being filmed about the project, and the mural may be on exhibit for a time this summer at the Guggenheim Museum! Here's a link about that if anyone is interested.

Great stuff! I am going to a local Green expo here this weekend too!

[MaripositaII]

Originally Posted by lolabella

A big irritant for me is when I arrive home and find the Yellow Pages and/or any other phone book sitting on my doorstep. It immediately gets thrown in the recycle bin. I use yahoo yellowpages if I need to find a local business number or location. I really need to find out how to stop all these phone books from getting delivered to me. I think I get about 5 of them/year.

Same bloody thing here! I look up addresses and phone numbers online, so a telephone directory is useless to me. I have called and tried everything to stop them. Next time I see the person dropping it off (saw them once and didn't think about it until afterwards), I'm handing it back and going to act so psycho they might listen then

[drewl]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Great tips Lola.



Not to mention the plastic contains toxic chemicals....Canada just banned plastic bottles and containers which contain bisphenol A.



Buy re-usable water bottles and drink tap water.

Go with a water filter on your tap and a stainless steal bottle.. it's easy and healthy!

[drewl]

Originally Posted by lolabella

This is something I've started doing this past year. The water in my area tastes and smells horrible, so I was buying water bottles in bulk....until I realized that, even though I was recycling, many of those bottles end up in land fills.

I now have a Britta water filter and pitcher. I just refill bottles when I need them and store them in the fridge. Saves me alot of money too!!!

They sure do, we invested in a water filter that attaches to the tap, get's more stuff out then a brita and saves the fridge space, I highly recommend it!! We got ours at whole foods.

[Manitou]

The three of us spent the day picking up trash along the creek that runs through the middle of Colorado Springs. Great way to spend Earth Day as a family.

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by Manitou

The three of us spent the day picking up trash along the creek that runs through the middle of Colorado Springs. Great way to spend Earth Day as a family.

A great way to make a positive difference!

Here are some other ideas....from the Sierra Club here

We can do it!
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[TAPPY]

Happy Earth Day

[cpfstich]

Happy ED Jack!

[ryberg]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Bring your own reusable cup to Starbucks and get a free cup of coffee in honour of Earth Day.

Didn't work for me at one. Maybe outdated?

Steve

[Buggirl]

Originally Posted by drewl

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They sure do, we invested in a water filter that attaches to the tap, get's more stuff out then a brita and saves the fridge space, I highly recommend it!! We got ours at whole foods.

You did what? You guys get the best water in the state out of the pristine Quabbin in Western MA. When I lived out there, we couldn't even drink that water- they sent it all to Boston. No need for Brita- no need for bottled water- just drink it from the stupid tap, you lucky b-turd


(j/k, of course drewl...)

[drewl]

Originally Posted by Buggirl

You did what? You guys get the best water in the state out of the pristine Quabbin in Western MA. When I lived out there, we couldn't even drink that water- they sent it all to Boston. No need for Brita- no need for bottled water- just drink it from the stupid tap, you lucky b-turd


(j/k, of course drewl...)

Right.. of course.. usually I only drink the recycled bath water, it has more flavor.. but I'll take your advice and gove the tap water a chance.! Of course, YOU are surounded by water... yet not a drop to drink?

[mastequilapf]

Happy earth day to everyone!

I'm sorry to say that I wasn't very earth-friendly today as I made a day trip (flying) to Boston.

However, about 2/3 of the staff at our engineering firm is LEED-certified, so a lot of the work we do is earth-conscious...