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Six Simple Ways to Go Green
by Laurel Hostetler
Every single day you make hundreds of decisions
that have a real impact on the environment, whether it’s what you eat
for breakfast to how you get to work. Yet there is so much information
out there about living green it can be difficult to know where to start.
And you worry, Do they expect me to go vegan? Is it going to cost me
more money? So you end up recycling your bottles, cans, and
newspapers but that’s about it.
But there are plenty of simple little things you can do now to live a
more ecologically-friendly style and help fight global warming. And many
of them will actually save you money. I challenge you to pick at least
one of the following six tips and put it into action this week.
Earth-Saving Tip #1: Buy Local
Shop for produce at your local farmer’s market instead of the
grocery store. The foods you buy at the supermarket travel 1,500 miles
on average to get to store shelves. Buying from local sellers cuts back
on emissions, fuel consumption and unnecessary traffic. Plus anything
you buy that has been produced locally supports your local economy and
saves businesses money on packing, processing, refrigeration, marketing,
and shipping.
Earth-Saving Tip #2: Make the Switch
Replace your standard incandescent light bulbs with compact
fluorescent ones. Not only do they last ten times longer than
incandescent bulbs, but fluorescent lights also use seventy-five percent
less energy. Imagine, if every American replaced just one light bulb
that alone would save enough energy to light 2.5 million homes in one
year.
Earth-Saving Tip #3: Choose to Reuse
Next time you run out for Starbucks, take your own mug. They’ll
give you a ten-cent discount for providing your own reusable cup and
that will mean one less paper cup winds up in a landfill.
Earth-Saving Tip #4: Hitch a Ride
Buddy up with a co-worker for your daily commute or sign up for your
company’s Ride Share program. If every commuter car in the U.S. carried
one more passenger, it would save eight billion gallons of gasoline a
year.
Earth-Saving Tip #5: Spurn the Bottle
Drink tap or filtered water, not bottled. In the U.S. alone, sixty
million water bottles end up in landfills every single day. And to make
enough bottles to meet the U.S. demand for bottled water requires more
than fifteen million barrels of oil annually – enough to fuel 100,000
cars for a year.
Earth-Saving Tip #6: Pull the Plug
Instead of just turning off electronics when you’re not using them,
unplug them from the wall. Because even when they’re turned off, things
like your DVD player, stereo, laptop, printer, and iPod all continue to
pull a current from the outlet. This electric waste or “phantom load”
accounts for approximately six-percent of the electricity used in your
home.
As you can see, even small changes can make a very big difference. So
don’t wait, start today. And tonight as you slip into bed, you’ll rest
easy knowing you did your part to save the world.
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