Blog Action Day - Clean Up Orlando

We made a commitment to participate in Blog Action Day a few months ago, and it's finally here. If you missed our post explaining the concept, you can read our Blog Action Day Intro to get started.

I have been thinking of interesting topics, and great ways to get green that I could share here, but I decided that if I posted something that I couldn't do myself, what's the point, so I'm going to keep this extremely simple.

If you currently live in Orlando, or are planning to move to Orlando, you're probably very aware of the city's beauty (they don't call it "The City Beautiful" for nothing). We're also only an hour from the beaches on either coast. My inspiration for this post came while Team Ekday (I just made that up) was out surfing at Cocoa Beach, and we saw a seagull trapped in a plastic 6-pack soda holder thing (I've included a picture if you're not familiar with the technical name). The seagull had one foot through a small home, and his head trapped in a larger hole. Luckily, we weren't the first to see the poor bird - a local marine and wildlife expert was trying to remove the plastic when we saw it. We spoke with him, and he said these plastic rings are a huge problem, and trap birds and sea turtles frequently.

There's really a simple solution to this. Before throwing out the plastic holder, cut (or tear) the rings. That's it. Just make sure there are no rings left for the wildlife to get trapped in. That's the great thing about Blog Action Day - there are so many blogs writing on this topic today, that you'll surely find the solution to saving the world by reading other blogs, but it gives us a chance to just keep it simple. Just make a promise to shred those wrappers, and you'll be one small step closer to helping the environment!

Here are a few other blogs participating in Blog Action Day:
- Behance is writing about Adopt The Sky
- FreelanceFolder is talking about Plastic Bags
- CopyBlogger has a great post about The Butterfly Effect
- Dumb Little Man is discussing all those Items you never thought to recycle

Tags: clean, green, environment