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ReStore Your Home

As you plan repairs and remodel, check to see if Habitat for Humanity has a ReStore in your community. They sell quality used and new goods and furniture at 50-70% off retail. Help the Earth, save money, and support a great cause, all at the same time.

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95, with Stitches and a Heart

I’d like to do some charity work, try to make a difference in people’s lives. But I’m 95, so I’m not super strong. and I fell recently and am recovering with sore muscles and 14 stitches. You can’t expect me to do much.

If you can say this, your name is not Jimmy Carter. At 95, recovering with a black eye and stitches, he’s out there in Nashville building porches on 21 homes. He’s active and enthusiastic in his work with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project, working with Habitat for Humanity. Read about this HERE. And take a minute to watch the short video there. Then, if you are NOT 95 and ailing, what’s stopping you from a little volunteer work?

Join the WildLife

It’s Spring!  Time to start planning for a healthier, more beautiful home for your family and for the little creatures living close to you.  In fact, your yard (or even apartment balcony) can be certified by the National Wildlife Foundation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program.  It takes five steps: 1) provide a food source for your little visitors in the form of native plants, which take less water and produce nectar, berries, or seeds; 2) supply clean water for drinking and bathing—like a birdbath or pond; 3) put in logs, rocks, or a birdhouse to give cover, for both protection and a place to raise young; 4) practice environmentally friendly gardening, using less lawn, mulching, and rain barrels or other water conservation methods; 5) go to https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/Certify and certify your new habitat (this is optional but fun).  For details, go to that website or call the NWF at (800)822-9919.  Creating your habitat will bring sunshine to your family and life to your little corner of the world.

A Great Way to Celebrate Earth Day

Here’s something your family can do:

 

Plant Trees

Honor Earth Day, Give Trees for Wildlife

Earth Day is almost here. Get hands-on to help wildlife—while showing politicians you care about addressing climate change—by giving to plant a native tree.

Or better yet, five trees. Or ten!

For every $10 you give today, a native tree will be planted to help wildlife survive and thrive—and you’ll help press leaders to take strong action on climate.

One of the most direct ways to improve our environment and help struggling species is to plant native trees. Trees absorb carbon dioxide—one of the key contributors to climate change—and other pollutant particulates, then store the carbon and release pure oxygen into the atmosphere. And they do this for decades, long after we’re gone.

Trees also lower air temperatures, help conserve energy, and provide wildlife with needed cover, nesting, and food.

Your donation today does even more than put native trees into the ground. Part of your gift will help us fight back against attempts to rollback climate and environmental programs that protect wildlife—and people—from pollution and severe weather events like drought and damaging storms from rising temperatures.

Give $10 to plant a tree, help the climate, and leave a conservation legacy for wildlife.

Our goal this year is to plant 50,000 trees while sending a strong message to the President and Congress that Americans do care about the environment—and that together, we will do our part to improve our communities and wildlife habitats.

Plant Trees

Those Items from Your Remodel Job are Valuable!

 

DON’T THROW AWAY THAT DOOR, FIXTURES, APPLIANCES, OR OTHER ITEMS FROM WHEN YOU REMODELED.  Donate them to a Habitat for Humanity ReStore. That’s a nonprofit home-improvement store that accepts new or gently used building materials, appliances, furniture, and home accessories and sells them to the public at fantastic prices.

Money from sales goes to help build homes for families, who earn those homes by putting in mandatory “sweat equity” in building the structures.

Recently we remodeled our kitchen, including new lighting.  I took in the old lights, expecting them to be rejected because, although in good shape, they’re old fashioned round globe/brass and wood frames.  They were happily accepted by the Habitat worker.  You can bet I’ll be back with other items and, when I have more time, to shop around.

Most states have a ReStore.  Find one in your area by going to www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx?place=us and searching your state.  Then use the place to donate and shop.  (By the way, some ReStores  will pick up your items at your house.  Call to find out.)