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Earth Day

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On April 22nd, people worldwide will celebrate Earth Day with events, fund-raisers, and other eco-friendly actions for their communites. The Center for a New American Dream aspires to do these actions every day; in January, they launched the ‘More of What Matters’ campaign aimed at inspiring, educating, and empowering Americans to get more of what matters by taking simple actions to live consciously, buy wisely, and make a difference as citizen advocates. How can you make a difference? Log on to newdream.org to learn how you can join Turn the Tide by participating in nine actions to save the planet. Here are a few ideas to get you started. To join the campaign or to learn about the other five actions visit their website. For more information about Earth Day visit earthday.net.

1. Skip a car trip each week

The average American drives more than 250 miles each week. Replace a weekly 20 mile car trip by telecommuting, biking, or combining errands and you’ll reduce your annual emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by nearly a thousand pounds!

2. Replace one beef meal each week

Meat production is extremely resource-intensive livestock currently consume 70 percent of America’s grain production! Feedlot beef is particularly wasteful. For every 1,000 of us who take this action, we save over 70,000 pounds of grain, 70,000 pounds of topsoil, and 40 million gallons of water per year!

3. Replace four standard light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights (CFLs)

Want a hundred bucks? Replace four standard bulbs with low-mercury CFLs, and you’ll reduce your electricity bills by more than $100 over the lives of those bulbs! More importantly, you’ll prevent the emission of five thousand pounds of carbon dioxide.

4. Declare your independence from junk mail

Begin by using the Center for a New American Dream’s online form to get yourself off junkmail lists. For every 1,000 of us who succeed in halving our personal bulk mail, we will save 170 trees, nearly 46,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, and 70,000 gallons of water each year.

Excerpted with permission from The Center for a New American Dream
Healing Lifestyles & Spas Team
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