Earth Day

Earth day is celebrated yearly on April 22.  Over 1 billion people from 192 countries all over the world will participate to help depict this year's theme Earth Day: The Face of Climate Change.

Do you try to lower your carbon footprint to help save the planet?  Is riding a bike your way of helping the climate? You can post a photo to tell your story about climate change and how you are helping.

There are all kinds of other ways you can get involved and join the movement.  To find out how,  check out the Earth Day Network website.

Earth Day - April 22nd!

Do you care about the environment?  Do you actively try to save the planet?  The Environmental Protection Agency offers many ways you can commit to protect the environment this Earth Day:

• Pick five activities to save the environment.
• Participate in the Environment in a Day photo project or Six Words for the Planet contest.
• Find Earth Day events and activities across the country.

Come by the library to see displays about how the Tarleton recycling program is helping to reduce waste and save the planet!  

You can see all the toner cartridges used in library printers - just since January!  

Earth day is important reminder to think about the environment and our planet and how we need to protect it. 

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Easy Ways to Conserve H2O

With the current drought conditions in Texas and most other southern states, conserving water has become an urgent need, and it's a need that each of us can take steps to address.

For starters, check out the eBay Green Team's 10 easy water-saving tips that can “significantly cut back on the 80 gallons of H2O that the average American uses every day.”

1. Slow the flow
2. Flush smarter
3. Put less down the drain
4. Turn it off
5. Fill ‘er up!
6. Think ahead
7. Check for leaks
8. Raise your glass
9. Catch what you can
10. Grow it out

Information about the eBay Green Team.

Learn More, Get Involved, Take Action -- Useful Top Tens

It's Top Ten Tuesday, plus April is Keep America Beautiful month, Thursday is Earth Day, and April 30th is Arbor Day. What a great time to check out ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, as well as embrace going green.

10 Top Tens: Ideas, Tips, Resources, and News

• Emerging Environmental Technologies – from LiveScience
• Endangered Species – from World Wildlife Fund for Nature
• Environmental Films – from Karl Burkart at Mother Nature Network
• Green Jobs – from InventorSpot
• Green Trends – from Government Technology Magazine
• Green Twitterers to Check Out – from Yuka Yoneda
• Reasons to Recycle – from the National Recycling Coalition
• Ways to be Green – from Yahoo! Green
• Ways to be Greener Through Better Networking – from Mark Leary at Cisco Systems
• Ways to Save the Planet – from HowStuffWorks

Live Green, Breathe Purple -- Check it Out

Top Ten Tuesday - 10 Songs for Earth Day

Earth Day was founded back in 1970 and falls on April 22nd each year. To help celebrate, I thought I would share one of my favorite places to find out about music - the Y! Music Playlist. They have created this Top 10 Earth Day songs playlist. Read their blog post to find out more about music and earth day...they have a long history together.  I hope you enjoy.

1. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
2. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
3. Paradise - John Prine
4. Shapes Of Things - The Yardbirds
5. Nature's Way - Spirit
6. Don't Go Near The Water - The Beach Boys
7. If A Tree Falls - Bruce Cockburn
8. Don't Go Near The Water - Johnny Cash
9. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem) - Neil Young
10. I Remember California - R.E.M.

Do you have a favorite environmental song?  Post a comment and share!

Thinking and Living Green!

Earth Day is April 22 & Arbor Day is April 24!

What a great time to consider what we can all do to "live a little greener," which is something many of us long to do. However, it's often hard to find out how to go about doing that.

To meet this information need, Discovery Channel offers Planet Green -- "a global initiative including a television network, interactive tools and 'how-to' resources."

This site offers "solutions-oriented tips and information" we all can use to live greener. Features include "fan sites, articles about how to go green, forums where users can interact," advice from experts, and articles from Discovery Channel's eco-savvy writers. "Passionate, positive, and always practical, Planet Green is bursting with smart tips and inspiring advice."

Discovery Channel also offers a sister site, TreeHugger, which posts "the latest in green news, opinions, interviews, and trends," as well as "the cutting-edge scoop on green architecture, design, gadgets, technology, fashion, health, politics, science, and more."

Check these sites out & go green!

Turn Off Goes Green...

A Joint Project of Earth Day Network and Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness

Did you know that the average television consumes 200-300 kilowatt-hours per year, accounting for an estimated 3-4% of the annual electronic usage in the USA.

That’s a whopping 46.9 billion kilowatt-hours a year! Or, in environmental terms, approximately 36 million tons of carbon dioxide, a global-warming causing pollutant.

Next week on April 22nd is Earth Day - do you part and turn off your TV!

Find out more at the Earth Day Network. http://www.earthday.net/default.aspx