Don’t throw trash out the window of your car and pick up after yourself.  How simple is that?  There are a ton of “green”products on the market now anywhere from hybrid vehicles to cleaning products made from biodegradable chemicals.  You don’t have to buy anything and everything that has an eco-friendly label on it, just do the little things people.

Mother nature has an amazing way of healing herself and making new but I do believe there is a point where we have to step in to lend a hand.  Nobody likes to see Diet Dr Pepper bottles floating in a pond or cigarettes being flung out windows.  I’m not saying that you need to dawn the scuba gear and plunge into your neighborhood watering hole searching for bottles and cans, but if you see something outside needing to be thrown away or recycled, do it.  You don’t need to pack your trunk full of random garbage, but do something.  Yeah, trash is icky and god knows who’s hands have been on it, but most bacteria and viral infections die relatively quickly once exposed to the outside air (hehe). 

Seriously, picking up something off the ground is no different then you grabbing a door handle at Arby’s…think about it? 

Do something small, walk a block or two instead of hopping in your car, carpool if you can (a lot of metro areas have carpool websites and clubs where you meet people close to you and share rides, or people at your place of employment who want to ride share)  In the summer, mow your lawn closer to sunset or early in the morning if you can.  Drink more filtered tap water if you can’t stand the thought of doing away with your water bottles (Brita pitchers are so cool and easy to refill during the day) 

If the government can’t get it done, then you need to.  Don’t wait for someone else to come along and make it cleaner or smell better.  Get your hands dirty and quit worrying about your god damn manicure or that new Rolex you just wrapped around your hairy, limp wrist.  Get down from the narcissistic cloud you float around on and make a real difference.  (I don’t mean you unless this fits)  You don’t have to be a granola to be environmentally conscious.   Just have an awareness that for every little move you make, there are people nearby who see you do it and think twice about their own actions.  Kind of like that commercial you see where random people witness an act of kindness and then perform one themselves?  Is blogging going to fix the world, no…but it’s a great way to express myself and get you to think too. 

You see this pitch all over the place but obviously it’s an important one or we wouldn’t be bombarded by the message.  It’s common sense – you take care of yourself so take care of your world.