Let’s Embrace Mother Earth!
Today, Earth Day is now celebrated in over 192 countries across the globe. (These events are coordinated globally by an organization called the Earth Day Network).
Here is what you can do…
Here are a few ideas that will inspire your residents to do their part and give back to the Earth.
- Encourage your residents to be advocates. Write letters to local politicians to voice your support for environmental causes. Sign online and offline petitions that support the environmental needs of your local community and the world as a whole.
- Volunteer – Find places residents can help local efforts. Staffing tables, manual labor, etc.
- Sign up for a class – Classes on recycling, gardening, composting, and more.
- Plant a tree – This may seem simple, but the act of planting a tree has many benefits. New habitat for wildlife, helping to clean the air and replacing resources that have been used.
- Start a garden – Earth Day’s timing couldn’t be better! Some of the best are ones that absorb CO2 and improve indoor air quality, like rubber plants, or plants that require minimal watering, like succulents. You could pot edible herbs or beautiful flowers.
- Have a dinner party – Serve local, organic foods, make it a potluck lunch, with the rule that everyone’s dish must be farm-to-table food.
- Host a cleanup – Go to your local park, beach, river.
- Go on a hike – Spend time getting outdoors and talk about why our earth is so important.
- Go dark for a day – encourage your residents to unplug from electronics and non-essential appliances and devices for a day.
- Do you have a recycling center? Do all your residents recycle? Encourage them!
- Education – Have books available, find blogs, watch a documentary.
- Cut back on plastic – Walk around and see what kind of disposable plastics you are using. Can they be replaced with reusable options? Water bottles, grocery bags, and other containers have less wasteful options now.
Earth Day Crafts are always a hit!
- Make some seed bombs
- Here’s MULTIPLE Earth Day crafts that you don’t need a special day for!
- Here are some Clay Imprints with Plants and Flowers
- Here are our Earth Day Coloring Pages to print out!
YouTube Videos to learn more about Earth Day
Printable Products for Earth Day
Check out printable products for this month!
