Friday, April 22nd is officially Earth Day! Earth Day is a day meant to inspire appreciation and awareness for our environment. While the fight for a clean environment is crucial year round, spreading awareness of its importance is necessary to further this effort. Here are 5 simple ways to honor our Earth tomorrow!
1. Carry a Reusable Bag or Coffee Cup: plastic bags and paper cups are constantly littering our oceans and landfills. By carrying your own bag or cup you are not adding to this devastating environmental problem. If you carry your own cup the Friday you can even get free coffee or tea from Starbucks!!!! http://www.starbucks.com/blog/happy-earth-day/993
2. Buy Locally: buying local produce saves on carbon emissions, a huge environmental benefit, and boosts your local economy. You'll get the freshest organic produce straight from the farm to the table and the added health benefits or organic product. Boston Organics is a local company that will deliver the "dogma box"- full of local organic produce- straight to your door! http://www.bostonorganics.com/
3. Recycle-Not Just Your Trash: selling and buying used and vintage clothes is an amazing way to do your part to recycle, in addition to recycling your trash. Recycling plastic and glass containers is always a great place to start. The city of Boston offers curbside recycling for residents in households with 1-6 units. You don't even have to separate your containers from your paper and cardboard. http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/recyclingandsanitation/curbside.asp
Buying and selling used clothing is also very easy in Boston. If you are looking to sell clothes on consignment Second Time Around has at least 10 stores in the Boston area. http://www.secondtimearound.net/ If you are looking to buy secondhand and vintage clothing check out Nancy's Gone Green Eco Boutique. http://www.nancysgonegreen.com/
4. Plant a Tree: the Grow Boston Greener Campaign is an effort to increase the urban tree canopy cover by planting 100,000 trees by 2020. Area Home Depot locations at South Bay and West Roxbury will offering discounted pricing on certain tree types on Earth Day. Take advantage of these special offers and plant a tree in your yard. If you report your tree planting it will be counted toward the Grow Boston Greener Campaign. http://www.cityofboston.gov/environmentalandenergy/earthday.asp
5. Cook or Eat a Vegan Meal: extremely large amounts of fossil fuels are used to produce meat and dairy products. Corporate cattle farms are a large polluter of our valuable water supply. Officials of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization have reported the meat industry as "one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems." If you cook a locally sourced vegan meal you are significantly cutting back the amount of emissions put into the environment. If you plan to go out for a vegan meal check out Life Alive in Cambridge or Lowell, their food is amazing. http://www.lifealive.com/
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