Jo Ann Nance

Through social media or on the Earth Day Ecochallenge feed, I will share my favorite environmentally friendly habit with my friends, even if it’s not an Earth Day action.

I will spend 20 minutes researching local organizations and businesses in my community, then support one of them by writing a testimonial or positive review, ordering curbside, making a donation to my favorite nonprofit, or supporting them in another way.

I will buy organic cotton and foods grown without the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.

Plastic packaging can clog our water ways and the stomachs of sea creatures. I will advocate for alternatives to single-use packaging at local grocery stores, markets, at work, or on campus.

An estimated 71% of seabirds and 30% of turtles have been found with plastics in their stomachs. When marine wildlife ingest plastic, they have a 50% mortality rate. By asking for no straw when placing a drink order, I will keep 3 plastic straw(s) of out of the ocean each day.

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Continue to support your local small business during the month of April and share in the social feed of how you powered prosperity.

I will before Taking the garbage out, identify any plastic, paper or string type material that has loops in it for wildlife to get stuck in. This includes soda or sports drink "rings" that the bottles come in, paper or plastic bags from the grocery store or even box string and plastic wrapping. If so make sure that all the rings are cut so that there is no trapping hazard.