Eat locally sourced salad as plants and don't eat food that has been transported half way around the world.

Or eat locally sourced meat, poultry, fish and seafood in season with hardly any need for long transportation.

Earth Day and transportation factors aside, I am more concerned about contracting e coli which is easily transmitted via poor irrigation and/or the mishandling of various food products.

Readers, if you have Earth Day events you would like to promote, please feel free to add them into the comments.

It would be nice if some of the local restaurants with outdoor grills and smokers commemorate Earth Day via special cocktail and menu offerings.

We are celebrating the occasion by hosting an Earth Day block party complete with beer/wine/liquor, assorted salads, and several Weber kettles going to smoke/grill burgers, ribs, chicken, and brauts.

One neighbor has even dug a pit in his backyard and will be preparing a slow-cooked/smoked Kalua Pig for an aloha vibe.

Earth Day is a prelude to the Memorial Day weekend and should be celebrated as a festive occasion.

We're gonna have an-all vegan (semi-organic) Earth Day deck party with some friends.

No cooked meats are being served but we will lots of Sangria + a variety of vegan dishes and sensimilla.

I am all for a smokeless vegan Earth Day celebration among friends.

When I was a child in rural Tennessee, we lived adjacent to a cemetery with a crematorium and to this day I cannot stand the smell of burning meat.

I haven't been to downtown Palo Alto in decades but at one time the former Gatehouse restaurant (later Spago's) on Lytton Avenue was a mortuary with a crematorium in the basement.

A restaurant employee once mentioned that the basement was converted to a wine cellar but the ovens were still intact. Kind of creepy and in retrospect, the indoor dining area was reminiscent of a funeral home.

The Gatehouse building is still privately owned and the daughter of the original owner is a landlord of an adjacent older apartment building just around the corner and across the street where the old PA Times office used to be.

As for Earth Day we will be acknowledging it by reducing our consumption of fossil fuels, electricity, and water usage...at least for a day.

@Jen Williams...while I respect your personal choice in not consuming meat products due to your childhood experiences, it should be noted that burning human flesh is different that that of a grilled USDA Prime steak.

During my tenure in Viet Nam combat, incendiary attacks using napalm and other fire-bombing ordinances results in an entirely different bouquet and aroma of 'burning meat.'

It is sickening despite Robert Duval's classic line in Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

Comparing a grilled steak to that of burning human flesh is not comparable.

Semper Fi.

Oily fish like mackerel and salmon smell far worse than a grilled steak.

We always cook our fish outdoors on a portable range or gas grill.

I remember checking out Earth Day in 1970 on the Stanford University campus.

They had several outdoor exhibits and I bought a copy of Paul Erlich's 'Population Bomb'.

To celebrate Earth Day we are going to fast on Saturday and then go to MacArthur Park late Sunday morning for brunch.

This is our way of making a personal sacrifice on behalf of the global ecology.

To commemorate Earth Day my husband and I have decided to forego traditional cremation and burial practices upon our passing.

Organic cremation using water or compacted wood chips returns the body to soil compost and eliminates the necessity of traditional mortuary services like embalming or incineration which is healthier for our environment as it does not impregnate the soil with harmful chemicals or create air pollution.