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Happy Earth Day!

Here are some very easy, simple things you can do today to start living more eco-friendly, courtesy of one of my she-roes, Oprah.

For example:
(1) Rather than buying bottled water, use a re-usable bottle that you can wash in the dishwasher, and refill it
(2) Decline the printed receipt option when you make an ATM transaction
(3) Receive and pay your monthly bills online vs. snail-mail (if your bank doesn't offer free online bill-pay, then your electric, phone, cable, car, etc., company probably does)
(4) Unplug electronics that you're not using RIGHT NOW - just being plugged in they use energy unnecessarily
(5) If every family replaced ONE bulb with a compact florescent lightbulb (CFL), it would be like reducing carbon emissions from 800,000 cars - WOW!
(6) Make a donation to one of the sites mentioned on the links provided herein to plant trees and reduce your carbon footprint

Bonus: many are money-saving! Click here for even more info and tips.

If you think this global warming thing is all a bunch of hooey, you should check this out. And you should also check into what pretty much every other developed country on the planet thinks about it. To summarize: the U.S. is the about only country whose government doesn't buy into the science.

What do YOU think?


PS - for more cool pics from space, go here