10 Ways to Do Your Part for Earth Day

Are you ready for April 22nd? You may not have it marked on your calendar but it’s an important day of the year. April 22nd is Earth Day, a special day set aside each year to raise awareness of conservation and other environmental issues like human impact on climate change Ellen McNeill, founder of MyConservationBaby.com, a North Carolina company offering baby clothes with conservation-inspired messages, has ten tips to help you be “earth friendly” every day of the year.

1. Call companies that use more packaging than necessary for their product and ask them to reduce the amount of packaging they use.

2. Pay your bills online and go paperless with as many of your bills as possible.

3. Recycle all glass, paper, metal, plastic and newspapers and everything you possibly can.

4. Batch your errands to minimize gas consumption.

5. Fix leaky faucets and use low-flow toilets and shower heads.

6. Replace your incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents.

7. Switch off lights whenever you leave a room and turn off any electronic devices you’re not using at the moment.

8. Borrow books from the library instead of buying new ones.

9. Only do full loads of laundry and use cold water instead of hot.

10. Lower your thermostat two degrees in the winter months and raise it two degrees in the summer.

You can visit MyConservationBaby.com for more tips on how to help the environment.

McNeill is compiling a comprehensive list of conservation tips and ideas and invites you to submit your tip or idea to info@MyConservationBaby.com. She will add them to the list currently on her website, MyConservationBaby.com.