Earth Day 2009

Earth Day is this Wednesday. This is an excellent time to show
our children how their actions affect the Earth, our lifestyles,
and our future. Some Earth Day events and activities were this
past weekend. Some are still to come.

Please share what events or activities your family will be doing
to honor the Earth this week/month.

Also, I enjoy starting new "green" projects or activities which
usually develop into family habits. This year we are beginning vermicomposting and a few other fun things to help us reduce our
impact on the earth.

Please share what new green ideas your family will be
incorporating this Earth Day.

Idea of Compacting

I just read about a cool thing that a group of San Franciscans did a few years back. The initiated a Compact with each other. The agreed to basically not buy anything new (with exceptions of course) for 12 months. Check out the guidelines. Care to try it with me? I am really liking the idea. Of course, I do have a list of things I am searching for used already and it really frustrated my dear son. Not sure what to do about that ...