Yummy Organic Gardens and Beautiful Shady Trees

Healthy families, healthy food, clean air and water...

This is what sustainable actions will bring- today and in our future.

A key to receiving this abundance is through tree planting and organic gardening.

We can be a part of this solution.

I recently found an awesome deal online- for only a $10 membership donation you can get 10 free trees or have 10 trees planted for you in your name: click here to see.

Planting trees wherever we can is always a good idea. Here is a great website that teaches you how to plant your own trees: Click here.

At the same time, we need to stop supporting deforestation. This means we need to help curtail the demand for products that are reliant on deforestation. We can do this by purchasing recycled paper and cardboard products/packaging as well as recycling our own paper and cardboard. We can also buy wood products made from sustainable wood farms. Some examples are here and here.

Organic gardening equals clean water and healthier food.

The reason that this is true is because conventional gardening/farming uses pesticides that get washed into our water supplies and leave a residue on our food. When we buy from organic farmers this leads to a healthier planet that supports healthy life.

Purchasing organic food is great, but we can go a step further and grow our own organic fruit and vegetable gardens. Here is a great site to teach you how to grow an organic garden: click here.

Short on space? You can grow veggies in pots on your porch or deck: click here to learn more.

Through our combined efforts we can truly make the earth a garden of beauty for us and future generations.

Sustainable Action: Help The Poor And Make Yourself Rich

1. I click here ... every day. This is an easy thing that costs nothing, but giving away free food is not enough to change the world. We need to support programs that really get involved with programs that create change.

2. I give away 50% of the money I make to charity. This is the website that inspired me to do it, although I didn't sign up as a member. Before you all think that I am some sort of saint you need to realize that I don't make much money and we don't give away 50% of the money my husband makes. By giving to charities that serve social needs around the world it strengthens the world as a whole and serves to create a sustainable and stable world.

We need to support programs that are making efforts towards universal education and healthcare (especially curbing HIV), stabilizing population in poor countries, encouraging gender equality and eradicating poverty.

Here are the "charities" I have given to recently and recommend:

Kiva.org : This site allows anyone to give loans to people in poor countries. The cool thing about this site is that you get your money back.

World Food Programme : Fights Hunger world wide

Childfund : Provides children with education, health care and other needs

Greatergood.org : We sent a child to school in Guatemala, but there are a lot of things you can choose at this website

Children's Hunger Relief Fund : Helps hurting children around the world.

I also recommend Oxfam International and Unicef

If a child was dying from starvation on your front lawn you would do something, so why would your compassion end simply because the child is residing elsewhere?

We can all make a difference towards a sustainable future by supporting organizations that bring prosperity and stabilization to societies around the world .

When we are contributing to the prosperity of others, helping people who can't help themselves we are truly rich.