Go Native Shopping for plants for your garden? Choose something indigenous to your area. Superbly adapted to your climate, natives require less watering and minimal pest control. And they provide pollen, nectar, and habitat for local birds and insects. For advice, one good place to start is the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which offers regional information for gardens throughout the U.S.

Good Read In Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care, pediatrician Alan Greene outlines simple ways to safeguard your baby’s well-being and the planet’s.

Love the planet Cookies

Every other holiday seems to involve yummy food, so why not Earth Day?

Organic Style’s exclusive
assortment of 24 cookies is
certified organic and packed in
a recyclable and reusable tin.

pitcher perfect
Just the thing for serving lemonade or mojitos at
a spring brunch. It’s made of blown glass by two
Mexican artisans. From Novica, which provides
an online fair-trade venue for artisans around the
world to sell their wares.

Wise Words

As we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now. –Amory Lovins

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