It Isn't Easy Being Green

Hola!

Here’s a plug for Earth Day, or Earth Week, or whatever it is…the kids brought home potted plants for picking up trash from the playground, and the city had an Earth Day awareness program last Saturday.

Now that gas is about $25.00 per gallon, maybe we can think more about consolidating our trips or carpooling more often. It’s easier to recycle when your town/city has a program for it and they pick it up from your curb. But even if you can’t do that, you can find other small ways to: RE-DUCE! RE-USE! RE-CYCLE!!

Dr. Seuss wrote “The Lorax,” who speaks for the trees. We have so many wasted reams of paper daily, from junk mail and newspapers. I read that the rain forests in Brazil are being cut down at the rate of a space the size of Connecticut PER DAY. We can at least try to recycle newspapers and junk mail.

Grocery stores are starting to push for bringing your own mesh or canvas bags to carry your groceries in, since SO many plastic bags go into the landfills daily.

Kermit the Frog may say, “It isn’t easy being green…” but it’s not that hard, either. Our earth is worth it!