Earth Friendly Tips to Prepare Your Home for the Holidays
The holiday season denotes the end of another year. The end of the calendar year brings many days of celebration, starting with Thanksgiving in November and ending with New Year’s Day in January. The holidays are a time for family, giving, and celebration. However, the holidays can also bring a negative environmental impact. Throughout the […]
Connect to Earth: How One Hour Can Make a Difference
Each year, millions of people around the world join together to take part in the annual celebration and grass roots movement known as Earth Hour.
Earth Hour 2018: Taking One Hour to Connect to Earth
One of the wonderful things about Earth Hour is no matter where you are on this planet, nor what you are doing, you can stop and take an hour out of your day to connect to Earth. While each Earth Hour, since the movement began back in 2007, has a slightly different theme and resultant […]
Earth Day: Planting Trees for the Future
Although Earth Day is only celebrated once a year, the day is intended to focus people’s attention towards simple acts of green they can take to improve the environment and protect the planet. This year, the theme for Earth Day is “Trees for the Earth”. In honor of it’s upcoming 50th anniversary (Earth Day is celebrating 46 years this […]
Earth Hour 2016: Shining a Light on Climate Action
Tonight, between the hours of 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. local time, the 10-year anniversary of Earth Hour is being celebrated in homes, businesses, cities, countries and nations worldwide. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Earth Hour is part of a global grassroots movement started in 2007 by the WWF to bring people together from […]
Earth Day Historical Facts and Figures
With 192 countries, countless organizations, thousands of schools and over a billion individuals celebrating Earth Day last year, this year is bound to be even better. Why? Because more and more people are wanting to involve themselves with biofriendly actions and activities that make this planet we live on just a little bit better. I […]
Earth Hour 2013: What Are You Willing To Do?
Making a difference on a broad scale begins with simple actions from individual people. When you add all those actions together, then you will start to see a change, see an improvement and see the difference you long to achieve. Earth Hour is all about people joining together for a common purpose, and showing their […]
Earth Hour 2012: Joining the “I Will If You Will” Challenge
Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC / Creative Commons Saturday, March 31st at 8:30pm marks Earth Hour 2012. Will you be there? Will you be joining in? Will you be going dark for an hour to show that when we, as individuals, ban together we can make a difference? Well…I will if […]
10 Simple Earth Day Do’s and Don’ts
Image by Randy Wood When it comes to Earth Day I could update you on all the activities and events that are planned. I could go over the idea behind Earth Day and why it’s important to educate people on sustainability and the need to protect the environment. I could tell you all about climate […]
How Will You Benefit From Earth Day 2010?
No matter where you are in the world, by now you know Earth Day 2010 is Thursday, April 22nd. What you may not know is Earth Day is celebrating its 40th Anniversary. That’s right. Back in 1970, someone decided that because “all people, regardless of race, gender, income, or geography, have a moral right to […]