April 22nd - Earth Day

Earth Day is a day early each year on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth's natural environment.

The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. Earth Day was first observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.



For today's challenge, I want you to do something good for our Earth!!

Just let us know what you did today!!! That's all!

Happy Earth Day!

We recycle all our milk jugs and with DH being a HUGE milk drinker we help a lot

I just wish I could get him to put them in the garbage sacks instead of leaving them on the counter.

LOL Colleen!! I hear you! Must be a guy thing!!!

I am going to pull dandelions out of my grass today and going to do a card using recycled stuff!!

I have some recycling I need to take out to the recycle bin. That will be my helping the Earth today I'll also probably save some other things from the trash & put them in the recycle bin. DH tends to just throw everything in the trash - grrrr!

I will NOT pass any gas today, that should be a huge help

LOL Jackie.

Helen just pull the yellow tops off, you can eat them.

I'm going make an extra effort to turn off power when not being used lights, t.v., radio, etc.

Me too, Jessica! I'm always reminding the kids to do the same :-)

DH is raking the yard and cleaning up the weeds and stuff. He's also getting rid of all the junk that's been laying around our yard creating more places for weeds to grow and things not to get mowed. There will be lots and lots for the recyclers to take on Tuesday!

I am scrapbooking today all with older paper from my stash. MY DD was in Creative Memories years ago and I inherited all her leftover stuff. It has been sitting for several years in my scraproom. Since I am working on this Seniors bowling album, I am using the paper for the album and it is working out great.

Now that sounds like a fun way to celebrate Earth Day, Linda!!

Carla wrote:

Me too, Jessica! I'm always reminding the kids to do the same :-)

My dad's phrase when we were kids was "This house is lit up like a Christmas tree!" He said that almost every night when he came home from work. I don't know what he expected when we were all in our own rooms doind individual activities. LOL

In our house we recycle just about everything.In our city we have blue bags and all recyclable stuff gets put in there. What can't be such as paint,electrical appliances and bigger things we take to an eco station(old computers and other electronics too).We use recycle bags for our groceries as well.
We use ECO laundry detergents and today we recycled paper and our flyers that come in the mail daily and with our provincial election tomorrow we've had plenty of flyer material that got into the recycle bag!

I thought I would show this, sometimes I like to border a LO and I use the leftover cardstock from cutting with the Cricut. This is one that I was working on yesterday.
The back of the LO looks like this -



This is what you see in the book.



Other people may already be doing this but it is a way to utilize all your cardstock plus reduce scrap, just thought I would share.

That is such a neat idea.. I usually just throw those sheets in the garbage.

I do that too Linda! My backs of my layouts are always full of holes and cut outs!!

Helen wrote:

I do that too Linda! My backs of my layouts are always full of holes and cut outs!!

If I really like the paper or scrapping a large pic, I will cut out under the photo. It gives me scraps for a co-ordinating page or card.

lirose wrote:

Helen wrote:

I do that too Linda! My backs of my layouts are always full of holes and cut outs!!

It I really like the paper or scrapping a large pic, I will cut out under the photo. It gives me scraps for a co-ordinating page or card.

Sometimes I do that too

Me three.

I'll have to leave a bit wider edges when cutting with my Cameo so I can use those sheets.

I compost all our scraps and recycle everything possible.... there are recycle containers all over the house... not much garbage goes out of here.

Apparently in Clairmont, they don't do curbside recycling. Grr! Makes for lots of trash in our bin each week! Plus, all those cardboard boxes we used for moving are just ending up in the landfill. I need to check and see if there's anywhere we can bring them for recycling. We've been using lots of water jugs, too, and of course juice cartons, etc. Hate throwing them in the garbage.

Carla.. my Mom in Medicine Hat has a recycle post where they actually get paid for their bottles and such. And they have a central recycle staion for cardboard and such. I hope you find something up there.

Yes, here in AB we pay a deposit on bottles-wine,beer,whiskey,pop,cans too. Our milk cartons and juice boxes,then when they are returned to a bottle depot you get that deposit back.All cardboard and paper, cans and other glass(jars etc.) are recycled. They should have something like that in place up your way,Carla.