{"id":4439,"date":"2009-04-22T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2009-04-22T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:53:56","slug":"earth-day-round-up-the-non-toxic-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/earth-day-round-up-the-non-toxic-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Round-Up (the Non-Toxic Kind)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/04\/earthdayflag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4440\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/04\/earthdayflag.jpg\" alt=\"earth day flag\" width=\"250\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><strong>Even after doing this for years, I still get a little flustered with the requisite Earth Day post.<\/strong> No, it&#8217;s not a matter of saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/screwearthday\">&#8220;Screw Earth Day&#8221;<\/a> (though I get that&#8230;); rather, it&#8217;s a recognition that there&#8217;s so much content out there that I&#8217;m unsure what I can add.\u00a0 So, rather than taking a feeble stab at something, I&#8217;ll make my contribution by sharing some of the good stuff I&#8217;ve seen around the web and blogosphere today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Green Living Ideas points to a couple of new films that may be worth checking out: <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlivingideas.com\/news-events\/films-watch-earth-day\">Disney&#8217;s <em>Earth<\/em>, and <em>A Sea Change<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cleantechnica profiles <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/04\/22\/family-tweets-home-energy-use-and-streams-data-live-on-web\/\">a family that&#8217;s tweeting its energy use today<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/pages\/earth-circle-goes-far-beyond-earth-day-c.php\">Triplepundit covers this one, also<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of &#8220;Screw Earth Day,&#8221; Grist wishes all a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sn9IlzDlGzg&amp;feature=player_embedded\">&#8220;Happy F&#8217;ing Earth Day!&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Yahoo! Green has the run-down on all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/daily_green_news\/34\/cool-earth-day-deals.html\">Earth Day deals<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Max Gladwell reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxgladwell.com\/2009\/04\/fortune-green-carbon-congress-patriot-tax\/\">carbon and gas tax discussions<\/a> from the first day of the Fortune Green Brainstorm conference.<\/li>\n<li>The Daily Green takes a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygreen.com\/living-green\/blogs\/save-money\/e3bank-green-banks-460409\">a new &#8220;green bank,&#8221; e3bank<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Twilight Earth muses on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twilightearth.com\/2009\/04\/earth-day-celebration-or-environmental-guilt-forgiveness\/\">the value of Earth Day<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The White House released a video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_iYIY9XHOUg\">&#8220;green jobs czar&#8221; Van Jones profiling green job opportunities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>MNN explores the practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/wilderness-resources\/videos\/assignment-earth-worm-grunting\">&#8220;worm grunting.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And, finally, I ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intent.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/how-eco-savvy-are-you\">&#8220;How Eco-Savvy are You?&#8221;<\/a> at Intent.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No doubt I&#8217;ve missed a ton of good content &#8212; what have seen today that you liked?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walkadog\/3230896004\/\">BL1961 at Flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after doing this for years, I still get a little flustered with the requisite Earth Day post. 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