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Earth Day is April 22, and while it’s important to get involved on this day, there are things we can do as families that will make a huge impact throughout the year.

It starts with helping our kids to celebrate the world in which we live, and it continues with helping them to love it so much that they want to do everything they can to help protect it. Here are six ideas to help your kids celebrate and care for our earth:

Trees are an important part of your landscape. In addition to their beauty, they provide shade, food, oxygen, and if they’re large enough, a place to climb and explore for kids of all ages. If you’re lucky enough to have trees in your yard, you can help them help you by trimming and pruning them. Trimming isn’t only for cleaning up damage from storms but can provide overall benefits that promote strong, healthy growth and extend the life of a tree. Thinning weaker branches provides better air circulation and access to sunlight, removing rubbing branches reduces stress, and eliminating branches that are growing into buildings or power lines helps keep your trees strong and more resistant to disease and damage.

You may be wondering why you need to build a wind generator when you can just purchase one, but commercial wind generators can cost in the thousands to buy. The materials needed to build a wind generator, the DC motor, batteries, towers and hub, are fairly cheap. It is possible to build a wind generator for under $500 and that means realizing the return on your investment years before you would have buying a professionally installed commercial model. Even if you pay for better quality materials when you build a wind generator, you will still find your total cost way below that of the professional installation.