Celebrate Earth Day

7 Tips to Show Your Love for the Planet

Here at Rocky, our love for nature runs deep. 365 days a year. It inspires our purpose “to remove toxins from the world”, it supplies us with the only ingredients we need for our skin, and is the best, most beautiful playground we could ever ask for. In turn, we show our respect through sustainable practices in our business and by sharing this love for others.

If you are like-minded, we invite you and your bear cubs to celebrate this weekend. Here’s some tips for a fun-filled Earth Day weekend:

1. Get outside
   

   Keep the car parked right where it is. Lace up your walking shoes or hop on your bike. Whether it’s flying a kite, enjoying a picnic under the sun or playing at a park, when you spend time in nature, it allows you to slow down to appreciate your surroundings.
   
   

2. Attend or organize a clean up

   Get a group of your favourite humans together to clean up your community park, roadsides and river. This week, the Rocky crew had a blast cleaning up our neighbourhood in Canmore.
   
   
   
   
   

   
   Clean up tip: Use biodegradable burlap bags instead of plastic bags to save that extra bit of plastic from going to the landfill. Shout out to Rosso Coffee Roasters in Calgary for providing us with these bags!
   
   
   Our garbage haul!
   
   Clean up tip: Care for your hard working hands by wearing gloves, washing hands and moisturizing with a lovely toxin-free hand cream.
   
   

3. Shop and eat local
   

   For dinner on Saturday night, opt for a restaurant that serves farm-to-table fare using both seasonal and local ingredients. Buy groceries at a local farmers market to reduce your food miles when your food didn’t have to travel overseas on planes or long truck drives. Support a local business and support the livelihood of families in your local community. So much good comes from buying and eating locally.
   
   

4. Go toxin-free, switch to natural

   Switching to natural products isn’t just good for your body, it’s good for the environment. Avoid ingredients commonly found in cosmetics that are harmful for the environment, such as triclosan and BHA that has the potential to cause adverse effects for aquatic species or oxybenzone found in chemical sunscreens that are disrupting coral reef populations. Our Red and Green list make it easy to shop for safe and natural ingredients that are kind to you and Mother Nature.
   
   
   
   

5. Light candles

   Lighting candles instead of using electricity is a small act that can add up to something significant when we all pitch in. Plus, who doesn’t love candlelight?
   
   
   Photo by NaturaSoy
   
   

6. Arm yourself with reusables

   Instead of single-use straws, cutlery, waterbottles, bags and coffee cups, invest in something that you love and can reuse over and over again while diverting unnecessary waste from the landfill. That coffee of yours will taste even better!

Let us know what you got up to this Earth Day weekend in the comment section below!