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Hello, DIYers!

Earth Day is coming up later in April and it is a great time to start considering how you can celebrate and do your part to save the planet! Here are some ideas that will help you to conserve energy, help clean up the planet, and live a greener life for yourself, your family, and for the future of mankind. Which will you choose?!

Skip Using a Car

You might consider skipping use of a car on Earth Day! If you have a prime location, you can skip using a car altogether by walking or biking anywhere that you need to go!

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Plant a Bee Garden

Bees are incredibly important for our environment. Plant them a beautiful garden! Just make sure to ensure that you are not planting any invasive species for your region.

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Create Botanical Drawings

Sitting and enjoying nature and art can be a refreshing way to celebrate the Earth!

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Paint a HydroFlask

Reusable hydroflasks are a fantastic alternative to using plastic water bottles. Decorate them!

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Make Recycling Bins

Recycling is probably the best thing that one can do for the planet right now!

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Plant a Vegetable Garden

If you haven’t planted a vegetable garden before, this tutorial has everything that you need to know!

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Clean Up A Park

Get the family or a group together to go clean up a park for Earth Day!

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Go on a Hike

Get out in nature by going on a hike!

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Make a Bird House

Help to create a home for a budding bird family! They are fun to watch and we have many options on our list all about building bird houses!

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Get Off Catalog Mailing Lists

Stop the endless wave of junk mail to help save trees!

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Meditate in Nature

Meditating outside can be a perfect way to celebrate the Earth! This tutorial offers 6 different ways!

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Go Geocaching

Geocaching is a fun way to get out and about in the world and look for treasure! There is always something interesting to discover!

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Tour a Recycling Facility

You can contact your local recycling center to learn how it works! If they do not allow tours, you can even take one virtually at many places around the US.

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DIY Reusable Grocery Bag

If you’re still using plastic grocery bags from the store, why not consider Earth Day to make the switch to reusable bags?!

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Go Birdwatching

Birdwatching is a wonderful way to enjoy nature and study these fabulous flying creatures that we share the world with! Here are some tips to get you started as a beginner!

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Shop At Your Local Farmers Market

Shopping at a farmers market helps to ensure you are getting ethically sourced foods and helps support local farmers!

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Start a Nature Journal

A nature therapy is a fun way to spend time outside, learn, and practice art!

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Take Part in a Citizen Science Project

Citizen science projects are a great way to help gather meaningful data that can change the world! Check out these projects and look around for others that might be near you!

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Go on a Micro Adventure

The idea behind a micro adventure is to squeeze in something simple around your work day. Take a brief, morning hike or explore something wonderful you didn’t know was near you. A great place to check what interesting things might be in your area is the Atlas Obscura website!

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Make Recycled Paper

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Learn About Plants in Your Neighborhood

Take a walk around your neighborhood and use an app like Plantsnap to identify and learn about the plants all around you! Alternatively, you can take pictures or make sketches of them and look them up later in a book or online!

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Plant a Tree

Planting a tree is a wonderful way to help the environment! If you are interested in doing this, make sure to check with your local nursery to ensure that the tree you are planting will be good for the local area. Additionally, if you cannot do this on your own property, it may take a bit of research to figure out where you can plant on public land.

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Green Story Time

Read with your own kids, at the library, or some other community activity. You can pick one of these great, “green” reads!

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Upcycle Something

Consider doing an upcycle project for Earth Day! You can get inspired with any of these amazing ideas!

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Buy a Second Hand Wardrobe

Shopping second hand is a wonderful way to help reduce waste. This guide will help you to make your selections wisely!

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Build Bat Houses

Bats are our nighttime pollinators! They do wonders for our environment, especially in controlling pests! Give them the respect they deserve by building them safe houses. Just double check with your local area how they should be set up as they do vary by region!

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Teach Your Child How to Read a Paper Map

Keep this romantic practice alive by teaching your little one’s how to read a paper map to go on adventures! Afterall, wi-fi doesn’t reach everywhere!

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Find Someone to Carpool With

You can let your co-workers know that you are interested in helping the environment and see if someone may be interested in making a carpooling arrangement that will work for you both! If not, you can always check out local carpool connecting resources!

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Learn About Invasive Species

If you aren’t aware of human-spread invasive species, now is a great time to learn! Start by learning about the problem itself, and then you might go as far to learn about which invasive species are in your area!