Clean Air Tips for Earth Day


Happy Earth Day!

This Earth Day practice your commitment to clean air with an action from our Clean Air Pledge – either from our Clean Air Pledge for everybody, or from our Clean Air Pledge for Kids, which has activities that are great to do as a family.

The Clean Air Pledge

SWITCH IT OUT

πŸ’¨ Change your home air filter
πŸ”§ Change your car cabin air filter
πŸ”Œ Replace gas-powered yard tools with electric- or hand-powered ones
✨ Switch to using natural all-purpose cleaner only
πŸ“¦ Make all online purchases in one order each week
🍐 Buy produce locally
πŸ₯— Eat no meat for at least one day a week
πŸ“‘ Install an air quality monitor at your home
πŸ”Œ Choose a greener energy rate
β˜€οΈ Install solar panels at your home

PLANT SOMETHING

🏑 Plant a home garden
🌳 Plant a tree
🌱 Plant an indoor plant in your office and/or home

REDUCE VEHICLE EMISSIONS

πŸ’» Telecommute
🚴 Walk, bike or ride a scooter to work/school
🚍 Take public transit
🚘 Carpool
πŸ“ž Attend meetings remotely
πŸ”‘ Do not idle your engine
⚑ Switch from an old gas-guzzler car to a hybrid or zero-emission vehicle

The Clean Air Pledge for Kids

🚴 Bike to school, the store or a park
🚢 Walk to school, the store or a park
πŸ₯• Grow a seed or plant a garden
🌲 Plant a tree
πŸš— Ask my parents to turn off the car while idling
πŸ“„ Give a report to my class on the environment
πŸ§ͺ Do an air quality experiment
🎨 Make a craft or art project about air quality to raise awareness