Make Every Day Earth Day
In honor of our gorgeous planet
Join us in a countdown to Earth Day 2023, the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day. Moab Solutions will do a few cleanups in the area. On Earth Day, which is Saturday, April 22, 2023, join Moab Solutions for some work over on the Potato Salad Hill area of Mill Creek.
We invite you to take the Earth Day Challenge. Pick some items from the list below and start working them into your daily routine. Send us a quote about how you feel about lessening your impact, recycling, planting trees, rethinking how you do things to be more earth friendly, etc. We will publish your quote below.
We invite you to take the Earth Day Challenge. Pick some items from the list below and start working them into your daily routine. Send us a quote about how you feel about lessening your impact, recycling, planting trees, rethinking how you do things to be more earth friendly, etc. We will publish your quote below.
Five of the 48 students from Moab Charter School who helped clean up the parkway on the day before Earth Day 2017
Take the challenge
Pick an item or two from below and start working it
into your routine.
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Stop getting junk mail and unwanted catalogs.
It’s free and easy to stop unwanted mail. Visit www.directmail.com to have your name removed from mailing lists for free. If you would like to continue receiving some catalogs, but stop others, visit www.catalogchoice.org. Start or increase your recycling. It doesn’t end with the Community Recycle Center. There are scores of recycling venues and opportunities around town. Check our Recycling Directory page and see your trash can stay empty longer. The most important "R" of them all may be Reduce. It eliminates waste or the need to recycle. Don’t idle your vehicle. Idling gets zero miles to the gallon and pollutes our shared air. Turn your car off if you’ll be stopped more than 30 seconds. Myths and more about responsible driving can be found on our Green Tips page. Check out this great site with wonderful information about the global impact of idling: http://iturnitoff.com/#/the-issue Walk or ride your bike in place of using your car twice a week. Get in shape as you power yourself without guilt. It's easy to get in the swing of walking or biking once you start. Start a compost bin for food scraps and yard waste. Turn what would be landfill clogging food and yard waste into rich compounds for the soil. Here are a few links to sites that can help you get started with composting. http://vegweb.com/composting/ http://eartheasy.com/grow_compost.html http://www.fix.com/blog/guide-to-composting/ Wash your clothes in cold water. It uses 90% less energy than hot water and is better for your clothes. The hot cycle makes colors fade and wears out your clothes faster. Learn more from this site: http://www.treehugger.com/culture/washing-laundry-in-cold-water-is-the-same-as.html |
Change your light bulbs to compact fluorescents or LEDs.
Save stacks of cash over time as you prevent pollution and save energy. Visit this site to get the facts. http://eartheasy.com/live_energyeff_ lighting.htm Use a tote bag or basket instead of plastic bags. Plastic and paper bags are resource drains. A reusable bag is forever. Read more about it in this fact filled web page: http://www.reusethisbag.com/25-reasons-to-go-reusable.asp Reject disposables. Use cloth napkins, real silver and dishes. Take a mug for takeout beverages. Use rags instead of paper towels. Look around your home or work place and see how you can replace disposables with reusables. Send us your ideas. Join the “Jump Out” squad. Carry a couple of buckets in your trunk and do spot clean ups along your favorite road. Or put a basket on your bicycle and pick up litter and recycling as you cruise the streets or trails in the area. A little litter pick up goes a long way toward beautifying our home...planet earth. Only use earth friendly cleaners you can easily make yourself. Visit our Green Tips page to see how easy it is to make safe, effective cleaning products. The information about this is at the bottom of the page. Don't buy anything. Make it a practice, at least one day a week, not to buy anything. Save fuel, save money, help the environment. Buy used. Look in the thrift stores and garage sales for that must-have item. Chances are you will find it there. Become an activist. It is good to change our consumption habits, but it is more important to change the social system, through embracing nonviolent direct action and becoming politically involved. |
What you're sharing with us...
I love all the ideas and was glad to see several things that I already participate in. I will start carrying a bucket to "Jump Out" and will try some green cleaning products. Thanks.
Monica S.
Monica S.
I love this list and will try to accomplish as many as I can. I think that another good challenge would also be cut purchasing to buy used instead of new. Also go one day a week without buying anything. That has the possibility of cutting back on many things that we don't need and also the fuel used to go shopping. Robin Zank
I love to look back at an area after I've picked up the trash and recycling and see "naked" nature. The grasses are singing! Sara Melnicoff
I elect to embrace buying nothing once a week; using tote bags, and buying things used.
I must add that in my opinion, in order to honor our home in space, we need to add "become an activist" to the list of things we can do.
It is good to change our consumption habits, but it is more important to change the social system, through embracing nonviolent direct action and becoming politically involved.
Thanks for this initiative. I hope it is a positive first step for people on the road to becoming the true agents of change the world demands. Ashley Anderson
I must add that in my opinion, in order to honor our home in space, we need to add "become an activist" to the list of things we can do.
It is good to change our consumption habits, but it is more important to change the social system, through embracing nonviolent direct action and becoming politically involved.
Thanks for this initiative. I hope it is a positive first step for people on the road to becoming the true agents of change the world demands. Ashley Anderson