Earth Day 2008: Everything You Need To Know

Happy Earth Day! In honor of today's planetary celebration, The Huffington Post has pulled together everything you could possibly need or want to know about Earth Day.

If you're curious about Earth Day in general, you can check out the official Earth Day site or go here to see the US government's Earth Day page.

If you're a fan of lists, or just looking for some eco-friendly tips and ideas, here are some of our favorites:

7 Energy-Saving Gadgets
10 Ways To Green Up Your Sex Life
16 Ways To Turn Your Business Green
52 Tips For Living Green.

If you prefer to think outside the box, you can check out HuffPost contributor Olivia Zaleski's 10 Things You Shouldn't Do On Earth Day.

Tired of being told what (and what not) to do, and just looking for a reason (and a way) to celebrate? Go here for a calendar of Earth Day events around the world and here to find some great eco-friendly (and alcoholic!) drink choices to celebrate with.

But, if you just can't imagine life without the jet, and think the idea of carbon offsets is so terribly gauche, then try any of these 10 utterly luxurious ways to cut your Jimmy Choo-heeled carbon footprint.

On the other hand, who doesn't like to save money? Here are 7 Earth Day money-saving tips for your home.

Looking for some Earth Day laughs? To see which of your favorite Comic Strips are doing Earth Day features, click here.

Or, better yet, check out the most amazingly hilarious Go-Green video ever made, starring, of course, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Adam McKay.

Got big plans for Earth Day? Anything we missed? Share your tips below!

Comments

[eredux]

Check out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and much more down to your local US City level...

http://www.eredux.com/states/

[ohiomark]

Many of the predictions from the first Earth Day never came true. Among them was the "population bomb" and "global cooling".

It just goes to show that the "experts" don't always get it right. What makes us think that they are right now?

Taking good care of the earth is a good idea. I like clean air and water too. Just stop telling me that my SUV is raising the temperature of the earth, because it's not and nobody has yet to prove that it is.

Also, stop telling me that higher taxes and bigger government will bring the temperature back down.

It won't.

Get over yourselves Libss, you can't change or control the climate.

[JohnKemp]

Yeah, lots to be thankful for where the greenies are concerned.

Starvation, food riots, COSTCO in the United States limiting the sale of rice. Think about that.

Poor people worldwide have no bigger enemy than American greenies.

[ohiomark]

Their fearless leader Al Gore is one of the biggest culprits. He was pushing the ethanol crap back in 1998 while Vice President.

http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/speeches/farmj.html

More proof that liberalism always generates the exact opposite of it's stated intent.

[LMstuff]

We all need to do our part. Do what you can to save resources and create new ones, it all adds up!

It also feels good!

[ohiomark]

Folks, this posts sums up liberalism. Even if what you do doesn't work, as long as you feel good, that's all that counts. Oh yeah, impressing your friends is important too.

[JohnKemp]

"Results? They can't handle results!"


A mindless, emothional display of trying to feel better about yourself; sort of like voting for Obama.

Nothing harms more people than does American liberalism.

[TimmySlagle]

by the way it is also Vladimir Lenin's birthday.

[gcallaghan]

Will Bush hold off burning the pile of old tires he has at his ranch?

[ThePodiumIsMine]

Seeing as Mr. Bush has an eco-friendly ranch, much more enviromentally friendly than the Goracle, I'd say he has no such pile of old tires.
Reality is just an inconvenient concept for you hufftards isn't it.

[TimmySlagle]

The President also never used a computer generated special effect, from a fictional movie. and claimed it was a "documenta­ry."

http://newsbusters.org/stories/al_gore_used_fictional_video_inconvenient_truth.html?q=blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/22/abc-s-20-20-gore-used-fictional-film-clip-inconvenient-truth

[pakaal]

Reality only seems to be convenient for Bush's ranch itself - as the leader of the United States, Bush had 7+ years to show how important conservation was, and had what even his political opponents agree is a very eco-friendly ranch to show concrete proof. Instead he's been the worst president on ecology ever, pushing increased oil usage, cutting into wetlands, logging more national forests, getting rid of emissions, repealing tax penalties for polluters - and yes, increasing tax breaks for them too.

But ya know what, I'm glad he's got an eco-friendly ranch, the sooner he goes back to it, and leave the rest of us to get on with fixing the economic, political and yes, ecological disaster he's made of our country, the better.