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Some things you can do right now

David Suzuki’s Nature Challenge is all about the simple things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint. To help you keep track, here’s a To Do list to post on your fridge or bulletin board. We’ve included specific suggestions, and lots of room for you to customize. We’ll update it each month.

• Take David Suzuki to work with our toolkit full of fun tips any workplace can use to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Over 500 of you have already downloaded the program from our website! If you’re trying to go green at your organization, and we’ll see how we can help.

• Turn it off! - What started in Sydney, Australia has spread to a worldwide movement. Thousands of individuals, businesses and whole cities (including Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tel Aviv and more) have pledged to switch off lights, appliances and anything else that uses energy for Earth Hour Saturday, March 29 from 8:00 to 9:00 pm, coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Get out the candles and acoustic guitars, invite your friends and make it a party!

• Get off junk mail. One-quarter of Canadians ‘discard’ junk mail without reading it. Most of it isn't printed on eco-friendly paper with veg inks, much of it ends up in landfills, it takes energy to recycle the stuff and they're designed to make you consume, consume, consume... The Red Dot Campaign links you directly to Canada Post’s eco-friendly consumer choice option and has a downloadable note to leave for letter carriers. (If you live in an apartment building, print off extras and leave them in the mail room for your neighbours. The trees – which store carbon – will love you for it in the long run.)

• Make your own reusable bag. Sick of the plastic versus paper bag debate? Cloth bags are the best solution. Here’s a pattern to make your own (and here’s an animated version) – a great way of keeping old curtains, sheets or fabric scraps out of the landfill. Have fun!

• Purchase gold standard carbon offsets to help compensate for business or vacation flights, driving a car, heating and cooling your home or office, etc. These fund clean energy projects – solar, wind, and wave, for example – giving these industries a competitive boost, so they will eventually become more available and affordable. (You’ll be in good company. With the recent addition of the Buffalo Sabres, the NHL now boasts 523 carbon neutral players!)

• Plan to attend an Earth Day Event - April 22. You could join David Suzuki April 19 to help save Musqueam Creek, Vancouver’s last wild salmon stream, or hold a celebratory block party with a local, organic potluck. Create an account and share what's going on in your neck of the woods by adding it to our Earth Day Community Calendar & Map:

CommunityWalk Map - Earth Day Events

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Please pass this information on – to friends, neighbours, colleagues, classmates, political representatives – everyone. The more people understand the problems and how to fix them, the closer we all are to a healthier world.