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Treat every day as Earth Day

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 Treat every day as Earth Day

EARTH- Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Earth Day. Holidays like these and others could be celebrated1 every day of the year. While larger projects like helping2 to clean up local parks are important tasks to tackle, there are also a number of changes you can make in your own household all year long to live greener, according to Barry Kaplan, co-owner of Everything Natural in Clarks Summit. It is the little things that each person can do, he said, that will truly make a difference every day. 

 Everything Natural owner Barry Kaplan displays one of the many Earth-friendly cleaning products available at the Clarks Summit store. 
Abington JOurnal photo / Melissa Kelly
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“Living as though Earth Day really mattered,” Kaplan said, helps call attention to something we should be aware of every day. To live greener, or not as wasteful3, can include simple life changes that are easy to do. Kaplan said “What can you do? What can I do? Even if you were to eat one vegetarian4 meal a week, it has a huge impact. I am not advocating vegetarians5, but in our country, we eat way more beef than any other country.” Kaplan also suggested that while eating less meat and using produce and products made locally will help the cause, there are many other alternatives.
“Home heating is the largest use of energy that exists. The amount of wood and paper thrown away is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years,” Kaplan said. If during the winter, everyone were to turn down their heat a degree or two, Kaplan said it would make a significant difference. He also suggested in terms of vehicles, that tires are not properly inflated6 and may be causing them drivers more money in gas in the long run.
Households should recycle, Kaplan said. “Clarks Summit is a good community for recycling, but it could be better, if every household did.” Kaplan said using recycled paper towels could save millions of trees and landfill space. Also businesses should be more aware of their impact using office paper and the waste of printing emails. At the end of each of Kaplan’s emails it is featured: “Please consider the impact to the environment before printing this email.”
He suggested, “Save yourself money and dramatically reduce the amount of energy you use. Do something like fixing a leaky faucet7 which can cause 6,000 gallons of water to be wasted a month and up to 72,000 a year.”
Other ways you can make simple changes in your daily routine include: taking the time to stop and think before you throw away a plastic bag and reusing it instead, Kaplan said that the city of San Francisco has banned plastic bags because of the amount of waste that it causes. Also, energy efficient appliances make a difference, as well carpet squares, where instead of needing to replace the entire carpet, you could simply replace a square instead, and dramatically reduce the amount of waste caused by carpets in landfills.
“Suburbs, I hate to say it, are not good for the environment,” Kaplan said. He encourages people to consolidate8 their travels.
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Kaplan recommended that community members look at political candidates and their voting records in terms of the environment and they let the elected officials know of concerns of the environment. He added that the environment is not a Democratic or Republican issue. “It is what we need to do to sustain life on this planet.”
Starting to live a greener life Kaplan said, “really is not all or nothing. It is easy enough to do something here and something there. And keep getting into it.” Web sites like: www.conservation.org can help measure your carbon footprint, and teach you what to do to help reduce your impact on the environment.
“We have power and control and much more say than people think,” Kaplan said, of living a greener life.
Everything Natural will celebrate Earth Day all month and will host an open house on Saturday, April 19 featuring live music from the Doug Smith Jazz Duo from 1 to 3 p.m., a book signing with “Essential Eating” author Janie Quinn and more. For more information, visit www.everythingnaturalpa.com.
Organic Soaps
Local business woman, Danielle Fleming of Danielle and Company, Inc. will feature award-winning organic soap garden on QVC? for Earth Day.
On Tuesday, April 22, Earth Day, Danielle and Company will make its first television appearance at one multimedia9 retailer10 QVC, Inc., headquartered in West Chester. Fleming will be on-air live in the "Hot Beauty" segment from 8 to 10 a.m., to promote her award-winning All-in-One Organic Soap Garden.
Fleming’s product was chosen to debut11 on Earth Day because it is an "eco-chic" brand with "eco-friendly" products.
Spring park clean up
Meet at the Abington Area Community Park along Rt. 307 on Saturday, April 26 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Bring work gloves, rakes, pitch forks, and shovels12, and put your name on personal tools. Volunteers will help pick up park and roadside garbage, gather and mulch branches and more. For more information, e-mail [email protected] 

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1 celebrated iwLzpz     
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
参考例句:
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
2 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
3 wasteful ogdwu     
adj.(造成)浪费的,挥霍的
参考例句:
  • It is a shame to be so wasteful.这样浪费太可惜了。
  • Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.为避免重复劳动浪费资源,任务已经重新分派。
4 vegetarian 7KGzY     
n.素食者;adj.素食的
参考例句:
  • She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
  • I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。
5 vegetarians 92ca2254bb61eaa208608083177e4ed9     
n.吃素的人( vegetarian的名词复数 );素食者;素食主义者;食草动物
参考例句:
  • Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks. 素食者不再被视为有怪癖的人。
  • Vegetarians believe that eating meat is bad karma. 素食者认为吃肉食是造恶业。
6 inflated Mqwz2K     
adj.(价格)飞涨的;(通货)膨胀的;言过其实的;充了气的v.使充气(于轮胎、气球等)( inflate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)膨胀;(使)通货膨胀;物价上涨
参考例句:
  • He has an inflated sense of his own importance. 他自视过高。
  • They all seem to take an inflated view of their collective identity. 他们对自己的集体身份似乎都持有一种夸大的看法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 faucet wzFyh     
n.水龙头
参考例句:
  • The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
  • She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头,把手擦干。
8 consolidate XYkyV     
v.使加固,使加强;(把...)联为一体,合并
参考例句:
  • The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
  • The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
9 multimedia BnSzdj     
adj.多种手段的,多媒体的;n.多媒体
参考例句:
  • Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
  • Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题,从而引发了许多有益的讨论。
10 retailer QjjzzO     
n.零售商(人)
参考例句:
  • What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢?
  • The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。
11 debut IxGxy     
n.首次演出,初次露面
参考例句:
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
12 shovels ff43a4c7395f1d0c2d5931bbb7a97da6     
n.铲子( shovel的名词复数 );锹;推土机、挖土机等的)铲;铲形部份v.铲子( shovel的第三人称单数 );锹;推土机、挖土机等的)铲;铲形部份
参考例句:
  • workmen with picks and shovels 手拿镐铲的工人
  • In the spring, we plunge shovels into the garden plot, turn under the dark compost. 春天,我们用铁锨翻开园子里黑油油的沃土。 来自辞典例句
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