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For Kids Taking Action

Journey For The Planet Here's the perfect gift for kids in your life and your local schools:

A Kid's Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-Friendly
Life by David Gershon
To be empowered, children need a step-by-step program that gives them support to translate their caring for the Earth into effective action. The Program Journey for the Planet was created to meet these needs. The Journey has five sections, dealing with garbage, water, energy, eco-wise consumerism, and empowering others. Each has its own cartoon animal guide to lead the way.

The 46 actions in the program include:
• "No Garbage Lunches" – using reusable packaging,
• "Aquacop" – hunting down dripping faucets,
• "Chill Out in Your Room" – finding air leaks that cause energy loss,
• "Squash Party" – carpooling,
• "Charge It!" – switching to rechargeable batteries,
• "What Goes Around Came Around" – buying recycled paper products.

Local foods, home cooked

This is the best time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere) for local produce - corn, tomatoes, and fruit are at their peak. Looking for local unprocessed food near you?
Check out this directory of local farmer's markets across the United States.
In the UK look here -- In Australia look here

Make your own meals.  Instead of buying prepared meals, frozen dinners, boxed and packaged stuff,  start with fresh meats or seafood, vegetables and herbs – local and organic where possible – and keep it simple but nutritious and delicious. At first, it seems like more time and trouble but once you make it a habit and rediscover cooking, you can get pretty fast and efficient. And save money, too.

Modified from Jane's Tips from Cave Creek AZ.
Photo from thesituarionist.wordpress.com

Want to grow your own vegetables? Here is a great article from the San Jose Mercury News, with plenty of detail about a couple growing a lush in the yard of their new home.