In celebration of Earth Day, April 22, 2021, we are encouraging everyone in the GUS community to pledge to make one small change to help restore our Earth.

GUS faculty have offered up some suggestions for small changes below, but feel free to get creative! Please make your pledge below to let us know what you’re planning, and don’t forget to send us photos, video, artwork or any other visual representation of your efforts to be included in our community celebration on Friday, April 23 at All School Meeting.

While we can’t all be together this year to celebrate and make a difference on Earth Day, we can all be together in making a difference!

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out.

Suggested Small Changes:

Reduce

• Replace a single-use item with a reusable one: a water bottle, straw, napkin, sandwich bag, saran wrap

• Buy larger containers and portion out servings instead of single-use

• Practice Leave No Trace principles when out in nature

• Turn off the water when you brush your teeth

• Reduce idle time in cars

• Try a biodegradable detergent

• Buy local! Reduce your carbon footprint by staying closer to home for shopping needs
  

Reuse

• Repurpose single-use containers around the home

• Water house plants instead of emptying water bottles or other “used” water into the sink

• Soak old markers in water to make your own watercolor paints

Pollinate

• Plant pollinator friendly species in your garden

• Make a seed bomb

• Post a “No Spray” sign

• Share the bee love with your neighbors by making chalk signs on your sidewalk

• Let your dandelions grow

• Make a hummingbird feeder 

Recycle

• Send your plastic waste to terracycle

• Start composting in your house

• Make a worm bin