Earth Day website
1. Park It
Leave your car at home for a day (or a week or a month) and try walking or biking. If work is too far away to walk, take public transit or carpool.
One city bus eliminates the emissions of 40 cars.
2. Shut Down
Turn off the lights, the computer and the TV when they are not in use.
Using only highly efficient and money saving appliances can reduce the electricity consumption of an average household to one tenth of the US average.
3. Where’s The Beef?
Try eating meat-free at least one day a week.
A meat-based diet requires seven times more land than a plant-based diet. Livestock production is responsible for more climate change gasses than all the motor vehicles in the world.
4. Eat It
Choose foods produced organically, locally and in season.
Support your regional farmers & farming industry: buying locally and in season is better for the environment than buying foods that have been shipped hundreds of kilometers to your local market.
Read more http://www.earthday.ca/pub/resources/top10.php
