You Can Make A Difference
What You Can Do!
Hug a tree—Climb a tree—Plant a tree!
Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970 by people across America. We increasingly became more aware of the pollution we lived in. It’s now celebrated annually around the globe and evolved into a campaign to protect earth's environment.
We’re now much more aware of how chemicals and pesticides can pollute our water, air and soil and cause health problems for people and animals. Check out the
U.S. EPA’s Earth Day Take Home Kit at http://www.epa.gov/earthday/takehomekit.htm
You’ll find information and activities for all ages.
Learn the issues and how to share information in school, with your friends, or online. Knowledge is power—share it—and recruit others to act now. It's always more fun and effective to work in groups. Make it a family effort.
Reuse your plastic shopping bags
Use them as trash bags to save money. Use them for storage.
Use paper bags rather than plastic bags when you are given the choice, but keep in mind that paper bags generate 70 percent more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags, and it takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
Use reusable grocery bags, which always have a lower environmental impact.
I make fabric grocery bags for gifts.
Pictured on left: Christopher and his daughters Madison and Shelby decorate their reusable bags proved at Wildlife Prairie Park's Earth Day Celebration 2009.
Sara talks to a Barred Owl named Oliver. She shares six-year-old Oliver with those in attendance at Wildlife Prairie Park's Earth Day Celebration 2009. Park staff thoughr Oliver was male until she layed an egg. She weighs two pounds and will only eat white mice. An owl has 14 bones in their neck, compared to the human's seven. Therefore, they have a great range of neck motion. Owls aren't very socialable with each other. They're only social for mating, but pay no attention to each other at other times. Since they are high on the food chain, they have few predators. Watch Sara and Oliver at
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Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
