少买些东西吧，尤其是那些包装过度的玩意儿。支持本地产品(无论是食物还是别的)——因为这些东西所需的运输距离短，从而能减少温室气体排放。随身带个水杯，尽量不用一次性餐具。回收利用那些日常生活用品，并为那些不常用的物品发掘新的用途。多用布袋子、回收塑料袋。

3. Rid litter

清扫垃圾

Rid litter from our roadways. Many groups use the weekend of Earth Day to clear roadways, highways and neighborhood streets of litter that has accumulated since the last clean-up day. Many companies donate gloves and bags for clean-up groups and villages organize bag pick ups. Once the group has collected the trash and placed the recycled bags along the road, get the village public works department to pick the bags up. It's a wonderful community project. Great for scout troops, rotary clubs and the like。

清扫马路上的垃圾。很多群体会在地球日的周末集体清扫马路、高速公路以及社区马路，扫除那些自上个清扫日以来堆积成山的垃圾。很多公司会捐赠手套和垃圾袋给清洁团体和村庄，组织收集垃圾。当清洁团体收集好垃圾并将它们堆放在道路两旁后，村庄的公益组织会前来集中收集垃圾袋。这是个非常棒的社区项目，非常适合童子军、扶轮社(译者注：一个历史悠久的全球性公益组织)以及其他类似的公益团体。

4. Sing or listen to "Earth" songs

聆听或唱地球主题歌

There are many Earth Day song lyrics available on the Internet. Many follow well-known tunes. These make a fantastic classroom activity and help younger children to become interested in environmental topics. For listening, iTunes has many songs about the Earth for downloading: try searching for words such as "planet", "Earth", "endangered", "pollution" etc. One example being "Earth Day" by Devin Townsend。

网上充斥着很多与地球日相关的歌曲。它们之中的大部分有着耳熟能详的曲调，是很好的班级活动素材，能帮助孩子们对环保问题产生兴趣。想听的话，可以去iTunes下载：搜索类似“星球”、“地球”、“濒临”、“污染”之类的关键词就行。比方说，加拿大乐队歌手Devin Townsend就有首“地球日” 的歌。