Care2's Earth Week Challenge

Care2 is a wonderful website having to do with the environment, human rights, care for animals, health, and quality lifestyle issues. For Earth Day they began "Care2's Earth Week Challenge" which involves a pledge to green-up our lives for the purpose of conserving precious resources and protecting the earth from environmental degradation.

I forwarded this challenge to the people I thought would want to do it but perhaps it's not a bad idea to provide the link for everyone. Even if you don't sign the pledge or decide to participate in the challenge, perhaps reading it will encourage you to do even just one easy thing. Go to this page to see the terms of the challenge. I will be writing about my attempt to meet these terms. At this time over 2,000 people have signed the pledge to:

1) Give up all single use drink bottles. (Bottled water, sodas, etc.)
2) Not use paper or plastic shopping bags. Instead, bring your own canvas bags.
3) Save electricity by cutting back TV to an hour a day and turning the thermostat down by two degrees.
4) Replace two car trips with walking, biking or public transportation.
5) Go vegetarian.

If you decide to do it, any of it, I would love to hear from you. If you want, I will post your success story.