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GB and I had a great day.

We spent most of it online today, learning about Earth Day.

We learned how to be Planet Protectors here.

We learned how to make a smaller ecological footprint here with Bobbie.

Some things that we’ve decided that we can do to reduce our impact on this precious Earth are:

• Buy organic or local whenever we can.
• Our family will try to reduce our meat consumption, since the beef industry does SO much to ruin our Earth. GB is already a vegetarian, since he was seven, so this will not be a sacrifice for him.
• We will replace more of our bulbs with the compact fluorescent bulbs. So far, we have three. But I plan to get more each week when I shop. We found out that if two million bulbs were purchased and used this year we would prevent enough CO2 emissions to equal taking over 11 million cars off the road for a year! Plus, bonus, we would save a lot of money!
• Whenever possible (or whenever I remember) I will use my own mesh shopping bags (made with recycled materials) when I go shopping. My grocery store gives you 5 cents for every bag you use EVERY time you use them. And I won’t be embarrassed to bring them into stores that don’t use the same logo. A bag is a bag, right?
• We will not buy bottled water for my home usage anymore. We will use refillable containers and keep them handy in our fridge. Those plastic bottles are filling up our landfills.
• We have three overflowing recycle bins everytime the waste management trucks pick up. But we will try to recycle EVEN MORE. ……..I’m sorry honey, I know the bins are already heavy.
• GB is going to try really hard to take shorter showers.
• He is also going to make sure that he turns computers, tvs, video games, and lights off when ever they aren’t in use.

We checked our family’s ecological footprint here, and found out that we aren’t doing too bad. The only area where we go over the national average for usage is with our house. Our house is too big…….. but we like it…… so we’re gonna keep it. It makes us happy. We’ll reduce in other ways.

To top our Earth day off with a cherry, check out the new life at the Martin household.

We got these little caterpillars to grow into monarch butterflies. They are growing fast!

And the pièce de résistance……… I found this when I checked my bluebird house today!

Happy birthday/earthday baby! Can you see the teeny, tiny beak? Omg! That’s so cute!