Well, as you may know, Earth Day was yesterday. I had planned to post about it, but Brennan was not cooperating (he wouldn’t stop screaming long enough for me to type. Babies.). So, instead, I will post some news items from yesterday along with some tips.    Also, I am interested to know if you celebrated Earth Day.  If you did, what did you do?  If not, why not?  Leave me a comment!

First on the list is a call to action from one of my favorite groups, WalMart Watch.  Walmart Watch is a group dedicated to challenging Walmart to be a more responsible retailer and employer.  So far, they have had a good bit of success organizing consumers to let Walmart know that they can’t do whatever they feel like just because they’re flippin’ huge and drive other stores out of business.  Here is a link to a petition to ask Walmart to live up to its promises to become “green” and stop their negative environmental practices.  I encourage you to spend some time on walmartwatch.com.  You might be suprised at what you learn.

The Green Guide, a print magazine, website and email newsletter published by National Geographic, has a pretty neat article about how to pick and choose which foods to buy organic when on a limited budget.

Larry West, the About.com Guide to the Environment, has published an article about things the average person can do to help the environment in 30 minutes or less.  He also publishes a newsletter, which I highly recommend.

I also recommend Freecycle, which is an organization that encourages people to reuse items by offering them free-of-charge to members of the local group.  I have gotten some firewood and movies free, and have given away a stroller, my old compound bow, and some other stuff that otherwise might have been thrown away.   By reusing our goods, we cut down on manufacturing waste and consumer waste because the stuff I don’t use anymore is almost always still in great shape.  You can check out Freecycle here.

Well, that’s all I have time for today.  Stay tuned, because I hopefully will have pictures of me playing in the dirt this weekend!