Earth day.

April 22 is Earth day. How are you going to celebrate it? Well it's something that we should be celebrating everyday, hence I have been practicing eco-friendly habits recently as an effort to contribute to saving our planet Earth :). Are you doing something about it? Maybe it's about time you sacrifice a thing or two as well.

Here are the small things - but huge efforts - I've been doing to GO GREEN.

1) I ALWAYS keep used paper for scratch and re-use them later on. I also recycle gift boxes, not gifts ;).

2) As soon as my laptop is fully charged, I unplug it right away until it's almost drained.

3) I stopped throwing old batteries in the trash. Instead I'm gathering all of them for the meantime. As soon as I've enough, I plan to bring them to a battery disposal bin in Greenhills (or Megamall and Greenbelt).

4) I turn off the lights in a room when no one's there. I turn off the lights when no one is reading or writing, but maybe just hanging out or watching TV.

5) I used to keep the TV on while sleeping and turn it off only when I wake up in the morning. Now I put it on sleep mode for about an hour - wish my aircon had sleep mode too.

6) Although it's so freaking HOT... when bearable I do not use the aircon in my room. Instead I use the electric fan. But if I really can't sleep because of the heat, I only turn it on when I'm about to fall asleep. Then I turn it off as soon as my eyes open, regardless if I go back to sleep or not.

7) Most of the time I do not use the aircon while driving - unless I have a complaining passenger.

8) To lessen laundry load, I wear my clothes more than once if they're still clean enough and wearable for a different day - of course. These are the clothes I wear only for a few hours and/or where I'm hardly exposed to pollution and heat - like jeans and shorts for sleeping.

9) When I brush my teeth, I don't keep the water running - I used to do that. Tsk tsk tsk.

10) To save water, I take a bath once a day - WAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I still have quite a list to follow, but it requires great commitment - just like commuting/walking/carpooling/riding a bike to nearby places... but I live far!! Another is to use eco bags for groceries - if I do that, I don't know what to use for our trash bins anymore.. Well, I'm gonna work on that.

Basically it's all about conserving energy and water and avoiding things that are harmful to the environment. For me, it's all about simple living. Live simple, live free, live happy.

Happy Earth Day and spread the word!