live green

There are a lot of different activities or actions that can be taken to take part in Earth Day celebrations, but these should also be something we consider doing every day, not just on Earth Day. Mother Earth needs our help year round!

It's easier to live green when we are living in a sustainable home - but it's not often that we focus on home when we are trying to make the planet more sustainable. This White Paper on The State of Shelter gives a good context for sustainable home-making, and some great ideas for greening your shelter. And as a bonus, it's available for free re-publication.

For a quick primer - about 20 pages - with a lot of statistical evidence, try this White Paper on The State of the Planet. This is an assemblage of third-party info suitable for informing skeptical relatives or as a starting point for research on issues around global climate change. It's also available for free reprint or republication.

While intergovernmental negotiations hobble forward and political parties snipe, the rest of us can make an impact in practical, every day ways to live green and live smarter. Here are fifty things (more than fifty, I counted) to do without a ton of money or scientific expertise to green up your contribution to life on earth. It turns out that our own homes (well, everyone's own homes combined) account for more than 30% of resource use, pollution and carbon load.

Minnesota's Live Green, Live Smart is remodeling a 1948 rambler into what they hope will be the first Platinum-certified LEED for Homes remodeled home in America. They invite others to join the green build movement by making modest to comprehensive choices about making their shelters greener.

http://livegreenlivesmart.org/shelter/50000_homes/default.aspx