Other than recycling, here are five easy ways to go green!
1. Shut off and unplug your electronics.
Help the Earth by unplugging your cellphone charger when your cellphone isn’t charging. You can also turn off your TV, computer, and radio when your not watching or listening to it.
2. Adjust your thermostat to the temperature.
If it is 40 degrees outside, don’t turn your thermostat up, turn it down. You can always cover up with a thick layer of blankets at night. And if its warm outside, you can always open up a window.
3. Wash your clothes in cold water.
By using cold water instead of warm, the average household can avoid emitting 1,281 pounds of carbon dioxide annually and save on energy bills.
4. Use the energy-saving Google search engine: Blackle http://www.blackle.com
White screens use up more energy than darker screens. So far, Blackle has saved over 1.4 million Watt hours!
5. Use refurbished electronics
You can get refurbished electronics for a steal (they often sell for less than 50 percent of the retail price!), and before they’re resold to the public, they go through an intense defect-testing process and the warranties usually remain intact. So you can save money and help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills.
5. Fill your bottle with filtered tap water.
Choose the greener solution by using a reusable bottle, like the FilterForGood bottle, and filling it with filtered tap water. If you use a Brita filtration system you can make another responsible choice by recycling your pitcher filter when you replace it, which should be about every two months (or every 40 gallons).
6. Reuse already worn clothes.
Instead of consuming new products, trade fashionable clothes, accessories, cosmetics and shoes for free (you only pay for shipping). By swapping merchandise you can lower the amount of harmful emissions caused by the manufacturing process.
7. Exchange CD’s, Movies and Books
Now you can avoid purchasing new products without forfeiting your entertainment needs
8. Use kitchenware made out of recycled materials
Preserve uses items such as recycled Brita pitcher filters and empty yogurt containers to make their line of colorful kitchen gear. Since they’re about the same price as regular kitchenware, it’s a no-brainer to choose Preserve products
Please take some of the stuff you learned here and go green. We only get one Earth and right now it is suffering. It’s as easy as 1,2,3!
