How can I help save plants and animals from the oil spill?

[John W]

This isn't the first time oil has been spilt in the Gulf. If you really cared, you wouldn't wait for a disaster like this to bring such concerns to your attention and focus on reducing your reliance on fossil fuels. How much of your clothes have polyester or nylon in them? How many of your things are made with plastic? How many chemicals are in the food that you eat? Is the food that you eat grown locally or is it flown and or trucked in? How do you get to school? Do you purchase products with recycled content or do you pay a recycling service to send out a separate truck to pick up your recyclables on the curb?

Think of this oil spill as an eye opener and start looking for how simple changes in your life can reduce the odds of something like this happening. Yes, this spill is bad but not nearly as bad as the damage we are doing to the Earth every day we assume that everything is just fine.