Watch the Earth Hour 2012 official video! On Saturday, March 31, at 8.30pm, celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world by switching off your lights for an hour…

Today is the second to last day of the Make an Impact: Change Our 2Morrow schools’ challenge! To help your favorite school, complete the Make an Impact carbon calculator or pledgelist!

If you have a recent energy efficiency or conservation experience where you feel like you have made a positive impact on the environment, tell us your story here!

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Nature Goes Missing from Kids’ Picture Books

Children’s books with an explicit environmental message have always been rare, but a new study shows that, over the past few decades, fewer children’s books have included any images of nature. While awareness of the environment’s importance has increased over time, picture books increasingly show a world that humans had shaped. The study also found that characters’ interactions with both domesticated and wild animals decreased. 

Check out the story on GOOD→ 

(via nrdc)

Energy efficiency rap video!

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Go outside. 

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Hu2 Design Eco Reminders
Super cute and PVC-free, Hu2 Design’s line of Eco Reminder wall stickers are ‘sustainable habit’ cues meant to give a barren wall decorative flair while helping you live a greener life at home.

In Winsted, CT, the local Friends of Main Street (http://bit.ly/w6xUl1) decorated an office window to boost community support for the Make An Impact School Challenge (http://bit.ly/wB4f36). The Winsted Friends of Main Street is part of a nationally recognized organization which supports revitalization and economic development in the local community in which they are located!

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Powering the Kitchen - a GE project using home energy monitors to track energy consumption in the kitchen (above: red = refrigerator, green = overhead lights, blue = plugs).

via Fathom

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The Grand Canyon Bans Sales of Bottled Water

Congratulations Grand Canyon park! Despite weary tourists and a $13 million donation from Coca-Cola, the park decided to push forward a ban on plastic water bottles, according to TIME. 

A step in the right direction.

Photo by zone41’s via Flickr  

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During Valentine’s week, Americans are expected to buy more than 58 million pounds of chocolate candy. And more than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold, according to the National Confectioners Association. (Via Detroit Free Press | freep.com. Emphasis mine. Photo via Godiva.com.)

That’s a lot of special product packaging!

Food for thought: Post-Valentine’s Day, what will become of all that packaging?

We encourage you to reuse your heart-shaped boxes, focus on purchasing recyclable boxes, or, even better, give your beloved chocolate in a repurposed container!