Topic: recycling program

I know, I know. Enough with the Earth Day preachiness already. I fully understand that you may well be sick and tired of hearing people tell you about all the terrible things you’re doing to the planet just by living on it (too many kids, maybe?), and how you really should be ashamed of yourself. But I don’t like to think about Earth Day, Week, or Month in that way, and I encourage you to resist rejecting its core message simply because it’s not always delivered deftly and effectively. So don’t let Earth Day make you feel like a less-than-stellar steward of the planet; you needn’t pressure yourself into thinking that you have to change all of your lifestyle habits starting today – and forever. Instead, just think of today as a launching pad from which you can shift your thought process if need be (even ever-so-slightly) about how what you do and don’t do in your daily life affects the world that immediately surrounds you, and the planet at large. Because if we don’t change, how do we expect anything else to? To help you take action, I give you five things you didn’t know you could recycle, but actually can – and fairly easily, too. Now let’s just make sure we don’t underestimate the positive effects even small steps like these can make where Mother Earth is concerned. More »