On Tuesday, April 22nd, Earth Day, I will be participating in a satellite media tour from New York City to offer television and radio stations nationwide tips on how to live like it’s Earth Day every day. I thought you might enjoy hearing some of my tips and then seeing which stations will be broadcasting me. I’ll paste that list at the end of my post.

Here are five of my eco-friendly tips for Earth Day:

1. Choose detergents that don’t harm Mother Earth or her waterways. For example, a dishwasher detergent without phosphate (which promotes algae growth that can choke rivers) is kinder to waterways than ones with that ingredient.

2. Think outside the box and inside the pantry for ways to clean your home. Baking soda makes an excellent scouring powder for scrubbing your tub, and vinegar can get out the musty smell in wet laundry that’s sat around for too long. Vinegar and water also do a bang up job washing hardwood floors. Put vinegar and baking soda together, and you’ve got an eco-friendly way to unclog drains.

3. Limit your paper consumption throughout the house. Always print on both sides of a piece of paper in your home office, and make sure that paper ends up in recycling (not the trash) when you’re done with it. To help you give up your paper towel habit, you could choose paper towels made from recycled paper or you could do what my mother taught me to do–turn old t-shirts and towels that were past their prime into rags. These have become my sustainable cleaning tools because after I use them, I can wash them in the laundry, and use them again. When they get too threadbare to continue using, I shred them and toss them in my compost. (You can put shredded paper in the compost as well.)

4. Install compact fluorescent bulbs throughout your house. I’ve posted before how after we switched out our incandescent bulbs for CFLs, our electricity bills went down. If that isn’t reason enough to choose these eco-friendly light bulbs, I don’t know what is.

5. Always bring reusable bags with you to the supermarket or any store for that matter. I know you’ve heard this from me time and time again, but just the simple act of not taking a plastic or paper bag from a store when you checkout can go a long way towards reducing landfills and reducing a company’s need to use petroleum and raw timber to make their bags.

Now as far as where I’ll be appearing on Earth Day, here’s a station rundown. Most segments will be live during the morning news. All times are Eastern:

7:15 WPSD, Paducah, KY
7:20 Daily Buzz, National
7:30 WYYZ Radio, Atlanta, GA
8:10 WDUN Radio, Atlanta, GA
8:30 WAMV Radio, Roanoke, VA
8:45 KWLM Radio, Minneapolis, MN
8:50 KMIR, Palm Springs, CA
9:00 WQEL, Columbus, OH
10:00 WCTV, Tallahassee, FL

Happy Earth Day!