earth day 2008

If you've ever wanted to ask your lawmakers in Congress how they feel about the environment, renewable energy, or any number of topics -- this site is for you. AskYourLawmaker.org invites visitors to submit questions and vote on questions that reporters from Capitol News Connection ask members of Congress. The site is always collecting questions concerning the environment. In addition to that, they are currently collection Earth Day questions to ask Congress on April 22. All answers are posted as audio files and transcripts.

Article talks about the events going on for Earth Day 2008.

Earth Day is coming and GreenPromise.com aims to spur global change through a new community feature on its Web site. My Green Promise lets users log promises to make sustainable lifestyle changes. As incentive, for each of the first 5,000 Green Promises made, GreenPromise.com will plant a tree. Green Promises are organized by category and include a description, obstacles faced, goal date and percent completion.

Service Experts' Earth Day program will create the same environmental effect as planting 330 trees for every single homeowner who makes one small household change. Service Experts will install a free programmable thermostat to every U.S. and Canadian household that schedules a heating or cooling tune-up during the month of April.

Starting on April 22nd, teachers will be able to bring used Elmer’s bottles and sticks to the nearest Wal-Mart to have them reused, while also bringing awareness about the importance of the 3 Rs to classrooms across the United States and Canada. 

They have also launched other contests and projects for students and teachers to take part in.