Its not easy being green... Join me for Green Week, next week!

It was July 22, 1969 when the Cuyahoga River on the southern shores of Lake Erie caught fire due to oils, chemicals and other materials leaking into the waters. As you can imagine, it created national media
frenzy.

Due to the fire on Cuyahoga River and other unthinkable environmental events, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson started planning an environmental teach-in known as Earth
Day. Fast-forward 40 years, and here we are, 2010 and still trying
to get everyone on-board.

Although there are some great initiatives out there, we need more. But this post is not meant to be a Global rant.

For the last month or so, I’ve been thinking of what I can do today to celebrate Earth Day. I’m of the mindset that Earth Day should be an everyday thing, not just once a year. However baby steps are sometimes
important and Earth Day is a great jumping off point to living a greener
life.

As a Children Book Manager and a citizen of the world, I feel it’s important to not only adjust my own lifestyle, but to help teach children more about the environment as well. For this reason, I’ve
decided to dedicate next week as Green Week. Over the next week I will
be publishing a new series of posts called “It’s not easy being green…”
In this series I’ll address greener travel options, packing lists and
things we can do at home, as well as posts on great books for kids and
the various options out there to help them understand the environment
and how to improve it.

Here is a rundown of next week’s post and how you can participate!

Sunday – 1^st Annual Enviro-Photo Contest Begins! Submit a photo to a special Flickr group I’ll be creating. Entries submitted Sunday, voting begins Monday &
winner announced Saturday. What’s the prize? A t-shirt from Hostel Dog!!

Monday- this weeks Blog Crawl will focus on blogs and websites about being greener, whether that be on the road or at home. If you have a blog you’d like me to look at, please leave a comment with
the blogs addy

Tuesday- It’s Travel Tuesday, and a great day for 101 Greener Travel Tips. If you have some great tips you’d like to have included in the list, please email them to me at pamlovestravel (at)
yahoo (dot) ca.

Wednesday- Traveler Highlight- I’ll be highlighting a traveler who embodies what it means to be green.

Thursday- Kids Zone! This is actual my major activity day for Kids at work, so it’s a great day to talk about various books, and ideas for activities
and experiments based on being greener. Submissions and suggestions are
welcome. Prize for best submitted Kids Green Activity/ Experiment!!

Friday- Voting ends for the 1^st Annual Enviro-Photo Contest. 101 Green Tips for at Home- Submit your ideas in the comments section below or email them to me and I’ll include them in
the list.

Saturday- Announcement of the winner for the 1^st Annual Enviro-Photo Contest, as well as a recap of the week. Diary post, "A week of being 100% green". That should be an interesting one!!

If you have some ideas or tips you'd like to share, please DM me through twitter (@spunkygirl) or email me at pamlovestravel (at) yahoo (dot) ca.

In celebration of green week(I know, I'm a week late this year, but this week has been to crazy busy), my Twitter and Stumble
backgrounds will be green, will you change yours for the week? If your
on Twitter, I'll be using a new hashtag (#greenweek) to help you find
posts and green tweets easier and join the discussion. I'll also be
posting various links, photos, tips and tricks on my Facebook Fan Page.