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4/27/2010
Plant a tomato plant or other vegetable plants in your garden and use it while cooking meals.
Also, instead of planting shade trees, plant a berry tree so you can enjoy fresh berries daily!
This will also save trips to the grocery store, is healthy, and will be a delicious addition to any meal.
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4/27/2010
Here are come tips to use when driving that wil help you GO GREEN!
1. Avoid jamming on the accelerator
2. Adhere to the speed limit
3. Plan your route in advance
4. Reduce the load on your automobile
5. Keep your vehicle from extreme temperatures
6. Top your fuel tank with care
These tips for going green are simple things that you can do with little effort. It just takes a little consciousness to make a big difference. Start today!
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4/27/2010
1. Styrofoam Cups: Styrofoam is not biodegradable, which means it's here forever. Next time, get your coffee to go in a reusable coffee mug or thermos. Skip the fast food, and use glass and metal storage containers whenever possible.
2. Plastic Utensils: Like paper products, plastic utensils rate high on the waste scale. Most disposable plastic utensils are used once and thrown away, rather than recycled. Since they are not biodegradable, they will live on forever in the environment. Consider washing and reusing plastic utensils, or stick to regular cutlery or portable metal mess kits.
3. Coffee Filters (bleached): Dioxins are chemicals formed during the chlorine bleaching process. Dioxins contaminate groundwater and air, and have been linked to cancer in both humans and animals. If you are a coffee drinker, make sure you buy eco-friendly unbleached filters, which are healthier for both you and the environment.
4. Overpackaged Food and Products: How often do you buy products that are wrapped in layers of heavy plastic, bubble wrap, or mounds of packing peanuts? Excess packaging wastes resources and costs you more money. A large portion of the trash in American households comes from packaging, which contributes to our ...
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4/27/2010
These facts will get you thinking!
1. Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
2. During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
3. To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
4. Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
5. If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
6. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
7. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000
sea creatures every year!
8. The U.S is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
9. Many well-known stars are going green and doing things that show that they care about the environment including Orlando Bloom who is building an eco-friendly house.
10. Even cleaners and body products labeled as natural can still have yucky chemicals ...
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4/27/2010
Spreading the word at work to go green can make a big difference. Many companies have decided to go green. It is important for multiple reasons:
1. Long-term savings (on environment and money!)
2. Reduces waste
3. Saves energy
4. Helps companies find efficient ways to run the manufacturing process.
5. Spreads the word and impact's employees
Encourage your co-workers and company today!
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4/27/2010
Adopt a climate-friendly travelling means for work. Give allowance to encourage people to take public transports or arrange carpools for people who live in the same area.
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4/27/2010
Giving up disposable razors for the old fashioned safety razor is a great way to save money and the environment. The multi-packs of flat razor blades are not only inexpensive, they come without all of the extra plastic housing that ultimately ends up in land fills. An added bonus? You won't have to carve out extra storage in the cabinets when you stock up. Flat packs of blades store very efficiently in a minimal amount of space.
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