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Earth Day Goodies

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Here are a few goodies to help you celebrate Earth Day:

How about starting out with a little history of Earth Day?

Then, check out Top Ten Earth Day Campaigns You Can’t Miss at TakePart˚. It includes links for volunteer opportunities in your community, National Geographic’s history of Earth Day video, a powerful film exploring the connection between environmental protection and human rights, ideas for creating a locally sourced Earth Day meal, and other nice resources for making your Earth Day, and all of your days, more green.

Also at TakePart˚, 17 Prime Ways to TakePart on Earth Day is a listing of seventeen simple things you can do today (and everyday) that have serious green impact. Ideas include air drying your laundry, visiting a farmer’s market, taking shorter showers, changing your lightbulbs, planting trees and twelve other actions that require very little time or effort, but make a big difference to the planet.

Hulu has a special Earth Day portal with video clips on green related topics, including a clip of scenes from the first Earth Day and videos about ingenious new energy technologies, endangered animal restoration and other timely topics.

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation‘s Call2Recyle program has successfully recycled 50 million pounds of cell phone and rechargeable batteries. Visit their website to find a drop-off location near you for all of of those old batteries cluttering up your junk drawers.

Read about the Meatless Monday movement, watch a video to get inspired, and then make a commitment to cut your carbon footprint and improve your health by forgoing meat once a week.

Visit the HuffPost Earth Day page to see what’s going on in Earth Day news. Some of the good news you’ll find: a list of proposed Earth Day resolutions (start composting, stop using paper plates, use public transit, and more), ways to green your sex life (no, really!), and the best Earth Day jokes of the decade.

Finally, for your viewing pleasure, and for your edification, at 9 pm tonight you can watch the cool young eco-capitalists from TerraCycle on National Geographic Channel’s new series, Garbage Moguls, while they up-cycle candy wrappers and old bill boards and other trash into cool new stuff. (Learn how to make a trendy, colorful wallet from a cookie wrapper right here.) Here’s a preview:

Happy Earth Day, and if you find other Earth Day goodies during your travels today, please share them with us here at ChangeAction by commenting below.

Earth Day? Earth Movie.

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On April 22nd, Earth Day, how better to celebrate than to see Earth, the movie? Disneynature‘s new film stars polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales, and with James Earl Jone’s voice for narration, how can you go wrong? Film-makers spent over five years and 2000 hours in the field to capture the story of three animal families in their struggles to survive a year on earth. From Alastair Fothergill  and Mark Linfield, producers of “Blue Planet“, “Deep Blue” and the “Planet Earth” series, the film has gotten some rave reviews. Jake Brewer, at The Huffington Post, says Earth is “breathtaking” and that Fothergill and Linfield “completely and utterly” deliver on their intent to inspire with the film. According to Brewer,

Earth is a stunning masterpiece that will leave even the most ardent coal lobbyist in awe of our planet and yearning to see more — and to preserve it.

You know what’s even better? Not only will going to see Earth inspire you to do something to care for our precious planet. If you buy a ticket to see Earth during the first week, Disneynature will plant a tree in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest in your honor. Cool, huh? See you there.