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Earth Day Challenges – Sustainability at Home
Check out these tips on making eco-friendly choices for your cleaning products from the EPA:
Earth Day Challenges – Sustainability at Home
How does going #outside inspire hope in you? On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, as we face an unprecedented global pandemic, going #outside helps many of us find solace. But the pandemic is also highlighting the inequities that limit who has access to fresh air, green space, and clean water.
This #EarthDay2020, share how you celebrate the natural world–and why we all deserve the opportunity to enjoy its benefits. Use #EarthDay2020 and #EarthDayNY and share your stories, photos and videos.
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Natural History
This is part of a new series of educational nature videos from Reinstein Woods
Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers have returned to Reinstein Woods. Check your own backyards for them as they stop in through migration.
Created by Mike Adriaansen.
Earth Day Challenges – Sustainability at Home
The Nature Conservancy says the “the average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world. Globally, the average is closer to 4 tons.”
What’s your carbon footprint?
Here are a few online calculators to try:
The Nature Conservancy – Calculate your Carbon Footprint
EPA Carbon Footprint Calculator
Earth Day Challenges – Sustainability at Home
“The reality is, for all the ads and promises over the years, it’s estimated that no more than 10% of plastic has ever been recycled.” – PBS Frontline’s “Plastic Wars”
Pledge to reduce your use of plastic this year!
Earth Day Challenges – Sustainability at Home
According to the National Environmental Education Foundation “The average New York resident using 79 gallons per day in and around their home. If every New York resident reduced their shower duration by one minute, about 10 billion gallons of water would be saved every year—that’s enough water to fill more than 15,000 Olympic-sized pools!”
What’s your water footprint? Find out here.
14 Days of Mindfulness
Give your full attention to the part of your body connecting you to the earth.
Feel the ground supporting you and connect to that feeling.
14 Days of Mindfulness
Lock your eyes forward and stretch your arms out in front of you.
Keeping your arms and eyes straight, slowly spread your arms apart until you reach the limits of your peripheral vision.
As you walk of sit, try to focus on your peripheral vision – what movement can you see in the edges?
14 days of Mindfulness – Leaf Examination
Find a Leaf and Examine it
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
What does it remind you of?
14 days of mindfulness – Fox Walk
Fox Walk
As you explore the trail, your backyard, or block, silence your footsteps.
Place the outside of the ball of your foot gently on the ground.
Roll your foot so the inside ball and outside have equal pressure.
Slowly lower your heel.