For those who take their dear sweet time about spring cleaning their home -- read our valuable tip list for ways to do it safely and naturally -- you're definitely not alone. Still, it's a task that you must do often to protect the quality of your home environment as well as your health.

I'm bringing up spring cleaning on this 41st annual Earth Day, the official birthday of the modern environmental movement very deliberately. Seems many mountain climbers who have scaled Mount Everest over nearly 60 years didn't get that eco-friendly message…

For the fourth consecutive year, a team of mountaineers under the aegis of the Eco Everest Expedition has traveled to Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain at 29,000 feet above mean sea level, to clean up the garbage -- tents, ropes, empty oxygen bottles and the like -- left behind by the thousands who have climbed it.

The goal of this fourth is to clear away more than 5 TONS of refuse from the lower parts and the summit of Mount Everest during the spring climbing season, that probably should be more aptly named the spring cleaning season. To get a sense of the enormity of this task, watch this short video about the first Eco Everest Expedition in 2008.

;feature=youtu.be

Stamford Advocate.com April 6, 2011

Time For Kids April 6, 2011