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Environmental projects, community events & personal commitments.
Environmental projects, community events & personal commitments.
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Project creators launch their ideas and create goals that determine the success of the project. Participants join in, accomplish goals, and earn rewards.
Project creators launch their ideas and create goals that determine the success of the project. Participants join in, accomplish goals, and earn rewards.
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It can be big or small, serious or playful. Get inspired, tap the drum, start a rhythm, and the results will come.
It can be big or small, serious or playful. Get inspired, tap the drum, start a rhythm, and the results will come.
Have impact.
Every week, people work on amazing projects that help the environment, children, animals, community,
and individuals. Wouldn’t it be great to add it all up? That’s earthbongo.
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I'm passionate about taking whatever steps we can to help the environment. I believe no step is too small, because it all adds up, and because sometimes the only thing we can do is take a small step. My friends and I worked hard to create earthbongo. We hope you like it -- and we'd love to hear from you!
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We want earthbongo to help us make positive change in our families and our communities.
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From time to time, I've found some pretty interesting articles about the environment that I thin...
We believe in earthbongo's mission to help make a better world by inspiring your friends an...
Our focus: Raising Awareness on a local level for how we can learn from and contribute to so...
The Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District serves approximately 16,300 water customers and ...
How can a USA nonprofit and an NGO located in remote East Africa create and implement a self-su...
This is a collection of short and sweet, simple and fun projects you can do to get started on e...
...and away from your food!
When my family and I were in Europe for a vacation last summer, we had a quick hotel breakfast one morning. It was the same kind of breakfast you've probably ...
This morning, I ran the Jingle Bell Run with my daughter to help raise money for the Arthritis Foundation. It's a 5K run through Seattle, and we had a great time. We donned our Christmas caps...
I've been reading Raj Patel's amazing book about the global food system, called "Stuffed and Starved", and it inspired me to do more research on what I'm eating. I try my be...
Want to trade your big bank for an institution that really knows how to make change? Millions of people have already switched from their "too big to fail" banks to local banks and credi...
Attract a little wildlife to your back yard, offer a treat for birds, and see a bit of nature up close! Here’s a great project to do with your kids.
PS What kinds of seed work best? Do th...
Big, beautiful, and always happy, sunflowers make a delightful addition to any sunny part of your yard. You can use recycled milk jugs, yogurt containers, or -- in our case -- reclaimed ju...
Wearable fun -- on your wrists! Make a fashion statement and have some fun with recycled and cast-off material at the same time.
Dana came up with this kid-friendly idea to create bracelets...
Create fantastic necklaces out of recycled posters and magazines, comic book pages, old board game cards, and reclaimed paperclips! It's easier than you might think, and the results are fa...
earthbongo is going to be at the Seattle Sculpture Park on April 16th, from 10:00 to 3:00, as part of the Seattle Art Museum's Earth Day for Kid's event. Come join us!
We'll be hosting an ar...
The devastation in Japan is heartbreaking. Please join this project to make a small donation.
Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to give $10 to the American Red Cross relief efforts.
Text 'boxes'...
Think: "Farmers Market for Social Change"
We will construct a basic forum outdoors at Westlake Center for other organizations and individuals from the Seattle area ...
The vision of the City of Sammamish Earth Day event is to encourage good environmental stewardship in our backyards and community.
Earth Day Activities include:
Kick off at 10:00 a...
Everyone should have a Craft Centre. It is a place where you would put old things that you don't need like cans, containers, used tooth-brushes, toliet-paper roles, old sponges, old chopsticks. ...
Go outside with a rake and maybe a shovel and try to clear up all the clogged up storm drains. If you don't there might be big puddles in the streets and cars will go through them and splash ped...
Come celebrate the completion of earthbongo's first ever beta test!
Join earthbongo and Friends of Frink Park in planting native trees on Sunday, January 23rd from 10am-1pm. Too...
Go local for food, services, and work as much as possible. Buying working and hiring local saves fuel, water and cuts down on pollution, while boosting the local economy! Our country is about to...
Join Us for National Bird Day
January 5, 2011
Why National Bird Day?
* The beauty, songs, and flight of birds have long been sources of human inspiration.
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A lot of electricity is wasted by cell phone chargers because people don't realize that the cables are still demanding energy even though cell phones aren't being charged. The task is very simpl...
A lot of food is wasted when it goes bad, but by composting you can use this old food to support new life! The composted fruits and vegetables are good for plants and carry nutrients that are be...
There are millions of unwanted of stray dogs and cats in the USA.They can reproduce quickly and then they could be abandoned.
But, if you get your dog or cat spayed or neutered, it will help th...
Dana sent this document to some of us earthbongo creators, and I wanted it to have a wider audience. This is an amazing, beautiful guide to greening your own environment and learning about Wanga...
I've been starting to take my bike for more errands recently (the library, the local food store for milk, and so on), and I am finding I am not outfitted right for it. That's slowing me down and...
Check it out!
This hot new parody video must be onto something Plastic State of Mind http://bit.ly/plasticstateofmind , because Los Angeles County just passed the strongest plastic bag ba...
What's a loop scoop? From the Story of Stuff's Annie Leonard and PBS, they are "short, funny videos to get kids thinking about the stuff in their lives and what this stuff can do to the environm...
Growing up is never easy, and the news right now is full of some sad stories about young people ending their lives because they couldn't cope with how they were treated by their peers. If you se...
It's that time of year again....shops are chocka-full of would be christmas presents. And, who doesn't like presents? But really, do we need to keep cluttering our homes each year with things ...
We are going to have a family art night this Sunday evening. Mary and I have talked about trying to have more balance in our lives, and we realized we've been missing doing art more. So we're ro...
This morning, after dropping of my kids at school, I saw my son's classroom notebook sitting on our dining room table. My first thought was to zip back over in my car. Then I thought, ...
I thought this was a pretty good article from the LA Times. It's from someone writing a column under the heading "Realist Idealist" and has their experiences as to what worked for them, and what...
I mean to focus on the clear produce bags and all matters of plastic bags.... wash 'em, save 'em up and recycle.... avoid using them for food storage and transport so they don't get all g...
In addition to eating locally, I think it's just as important to eat seasonally. The earth knows what you need throughout the year, which is why we eat different foods in different seasons. Fi...
Bring your own bags to the store when you go shopping. Simple. The key is to remember to have them handy. I keep mine in the car at all times.
change the incandescent bulbs to cfl bulbs which waste less electricity.
AIrplane travel is extremely wasteful! I want to investigate the effectiveness of video conferencing solutions like Cisco's WebEx and try it out instead of flying to the other side of the countr...
Eating less meat has been a vague goal of mine for some time now. I don't want to become a vegetarian, because, well, I like meat! Maybe I'd be healthier by being a vegetarian. But I'm just not ...
We Oregonians are blessed with a bounty of amazing food for much of the year... and as sad as I am to say goodbye to heirloom tomatoes, I am always excited when local varieties of apples hit the...
This project is about celebrating & sharing the bounty of your yard.
Gather some crops. Maybe you grew them, maybe you pick them at a farm.
Make some food & take a picture.
Eat and ...
From the website: "Walk + Bike to School Day is an international event held on the first Wednesday of October each year. In 2008 over 2,800 events were held in the US and 168 schools in Oregon p...
I'm old enough to remember the first (enormous) microwave I had ever seen, at my pal's house down the block - and to remember my mother warning me not to stand in front of it! We've come a long ...
I use my computer all the time, so it's on a lot. When I took a break, or stopped for the evening, I used to just walk away from it, thinking that the screen saver would just kick in and who...
It's one thing that we burn gas and dump co2 into the atmosphere to actually get from one place to another in our busy lives. But it's easy to forget that we sometimes just burn gas for n...
One of the best ways to figure out how you can save the most energy in your home from your appliances is by getting a Kill A Watt monitor. With this device, you can plug each of your appliances ...
My friend had a great idea - she donated the equivalent of her grocery expenses to the Oregon Food Bank.
I'm taking up the challenge and passing it on: track your food expenses for the wee...
One of the best ways to figure out how you can save the most energy in your home from your appliances is by getting a Kill A Watt monitor, or something like it. With this kind of device, you can p...
I had no idea that my stereo was still using power even though I'm not using it. I read that a playstation 3 takes 5x the power than a mid-size fridge - when it's "OFF"! No way. The solution is to...
Figure out how to recycle a dead laptop so that the parts are not just dumped in a landfill or sent to another country. The EPA has some serious stats on this issue:
Only 15% to 20% percent ...
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