Celebrate Green Feature-2, April 2009

Thanks for your great feedback on the Easter feature. In view of the fact that this is Earth Month with Earth Day fast approaching, we thought we'd send a second feature this month on one of our favorite holidays. Enjoy!

We're happy to present the following material for you to use in whole or in part in blogs or magazine articles.

Here's what you'll find in this email:
1. An article appropriate for an upcoming holiday or celebration
2. Top tips for the holiday/celebration
3. Top picks for the holiday/celebration
4. Ideas for a holiday/celebration several months out if you have a long lead time

Just a few guidelines:

1. If you use a portion of the article, as a courtesy, please include a link to www.CelebrateGreen.net somewhere in the body or at the end as we have done.

2. If you use the entire article, we'd appreciate it if you would include the following at the end: Lynn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson are mother and daughter and co-authors of Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations and Traditions for the Whole Family, available at www.CelebrateGreen.net  

3. If you need more information, would like to interview us about an upcoming holiday or celebration, or would like to ask about custom material, please contact [email protected] or call 425-793-3590 (Pacific time).

4. If you have any suggestions for how to make this material more useful or have an aspect of a particular holiday or celebration you'd like us to write about, email [email protected]

Thank you and enjoy!

Lynn and Corey
www.CelebrateGreen.net

13 no-cost ways to celebrate Earth Day in ten minutes or less

1. Turn your thermostat down two degrees and keep it there. And turn it off altogether tonight, heaping on the blankets if necessary.
2. Send Happy Earth Day e-cards to a half dozen friends.
3. E-mail your state or national representatives about a green initiative.
4. If you’re in the supermarket, track down the manager and encourage him or her to source local products.
5. Make signs to put on the mirror over faucets to remind family members to turn off water when they are brushing their teeth. (You can save an average of nine gallons every time you do this.)
6. Cancel subscriptions to newspapers or magazines you don’t really want.
7. Go online to CatalogChoice.org to free your mailbox from junk mail.
8. Call several people and arrange to carpool for an upcoming event such as a child’s sporting activity or a club meeting.
9. Go online and join a group like Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, Kids for Saving the Earth, the Wilderness Society or Co-op America.
10. Make a family pledge to walk everywhere today.
11. Talk to the principal at your children’s school about instituting environmental education in the curriculum.
12. Check to see that your tires are correctly inflated.
13. Sign the “ Healthy Yard Pledge” at Audubon.org.

Top Earth Day Tips

1. Do one thing today to show others you care about the environment.

2. Volunteer on an environmental projects, there are no doubt plenty in your community.

3. Great day to start some seeds, whether inside or out.

Top Earth Day Picks

1. Books on the environment great for children of all ages from www.GreenSugarPress.com

2. Learn about composting with earthworms with your kids.

3. Let's Save our Earth, a non-competitive game.

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