From Military.com - Make EARTH Day EVERYDAY in YOUR HOME!
My husband is the budget guy, I am the environmentally conscious one. I love hanging the laundry on an outdoor rack/line. I am using less electricity ("non-renewable resource") and letting the sun and the wind do its job. My husband loves it because it helps keep our gas bill down during the summer. I love open windows in the spring, summer and autumn! For me, it's all about the fresh air in the house using renewable resources. For my husband, it's all about the lack of air conditioning to drive up the electric bill.
There are other simple things we do to live in harmony. I make homemade yogurt. Not only is it delicious but *less packaging*, less garbage. My husband calculated it (yes, yes he did!) and it is about half as much to make as it is to buy the individual packages in the store. Our family of six eats about four 8oz-jars of yogurt a day. It adds up. I imagine you are starting to see the theme. It it is economical to make Earth Day everyday.
Another way I enjoy Earth Day everyday, this year I have been so much better about keeping our reusable bags in the trunk and then remembering to pull them out at the grocery store. Those blue bags are actually VERY nice. They hold a lot more grocery per bag. They sit up nicer in the trunk of my van. They are much less awkward then the store-plastic bags when carting our new purchases into the house. It is win-win-win for me to use these bags! "Earth Day everyday" is about making a new routine a habit. Then it all falls into place.
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