April 18th, 2023

Earth Day is April 22.  It’s more important than ever to think about ways to care for our earth.  That sentence can seem overwhelming, because who can care for an entire planet?  Well, you don’t have to do it all by yourself.  If each of us does something to reduce our individual impact on the planet, we are beginning to make a difference.  You don’t have to do something big, although you can if you want to.  You can pick something small – just do it.  Then, pick a second small thing and do that.  Small individual acts add up when a large number of individuals are involved.  Pollution and climate change are the result of lots of individual actions by governments, corporations, and people like us.  The solution will come from lots of individual actions by governments, corporations, and people like us.  So, to celebrate Earth Day 2023, let’s get started.  Here are a few ideas to consider:

• Learn what you can about sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, and other environmental topics.  Education will help you understand what you can do to help and how to talk to others about environmental topics. 
• Pay attention to the small things you do every day.  Can you use less water?  Lower the temperature setting for heating your house in the winter?  Use the stairs instead of the elevator?  Combine errands when you drive?  When you start looking at your activities with sustainability in mind, you will see lots of small changes you can make.
• Start with the changes that work best for you.  If you pick something hard that you hate doing, you will look for reasons to stop doing it.  If you pick something easy or that you like doing, you will quickly build the habit into your life.   Each of us will choose a different set of actions and that’s okay.