Happy Earth Day!

As we said in our Earth Day post last year, Mother Earth is at the heart of who we are and what we do at Remyndr. And over the course of this past year, the issue of climate change has increasingly come to the fore in public discourse. But how does climate change affect our daily lives? Better yet, how do our daily lives affect climate change? What’s our Ecological Footprint?

At Remyndr, often we talk about how to reduce your ecological footprint by recycling more, buying less plastic, and downloading our free app. Today we want to take a more granular look at your unique ecological footprint based on your lifestyle. After all, how do you decide what specific steps to take to reduce your footprint if you’re not clear on how your lifestyle impacts the environment?

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That’s where the Ecological Footprint Quiz comes in handy. It’s free, it’s fun, it takes five minutes. The EFQ is a carbon calculator that measures “how much biologically productive land and sea is used by a given population or activity and compares this to how much land and sea is available” (earthday.org).

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Simply take the quiz, get your results, and “explore scenarios” that could help you minimize your footprint. You don’t need to take gigantic steps in order to make a huge impact. Say you eat meat at one less meal per day. Over the next year, you can reduce your total animal consumption by a third or half! Huge return on investment for one small step! Besides, we can all use a salad, right?

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At the core of what we are and of what we do, you will find Mother Earth. There is no other recognized day that better describes Remyndr’s passion than Earth Day. We believe it is our duty to leave the world better than how we found it. At Remyndr, we stand for recycling, composting and educating, all done in an efficient way. Our app is just the start of it, but our mission is so much greater. Join us today and download the app: iOS/ Android

Earth Day Back Then
Earth Day was born out of the modern environmental movement of 1970, when war was raging in Vietnam and many were opposed to it. According to earthday.org, the idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes from Harvard as national coordinator. Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land. April 22, falling between Spring Break and Final Exams, was selected as the date.”

Earth Day Today
Today the focus has turned toward global warming and a push for clean energy. This green holiday is celebrated around the world by more than 1 billion people. It is a day of action, policy changes and that one alters the human behavior by bringing together opposing political parties, the old and the young and everyone in between— all fighting peacefully for one common good. A good that each of us shares, beautiful Mother Earth.
Join the movement.

Tom Cherry, CEO and Founder of Remyndr