Simple Things YOU can do to help Save the Earth (and yourself)
- Put on a sweater. Remember, when you turn up the heat in wintertime (we aren't even close yet), your heater is probably burning fossil fuels. A sweater or a nice warm robe will keep you even warmer and will help conserve resources and reduce climate change.
- Put one foot in front of the other. One hundred years ago, 99.9% of the people got by without cars. They took the train, they lived near their workplace...and they walked. Using fuel-efficient cars is important, but we can save even more fuel by simply driving less.
- Go for seconds. Recycling doesn't only mean separating your cans and bottles. It can mean using things a second (or third) time. That nice padded envelope you got in the mail for example can be reused by scratching out/covering the address, tearing off the stamps and using it again.
- Watch your waste. Items you may be throwing away can contaminate the soil and water for thousands or millions of years. Our community has special disposal procedures for items such as oil or batteries. Ink cartridges can be recycled (and are recycled here at the office). Take advantage of our communities amnesty days!
- Paper nor plastic. Bring your bags with you! By taking reusable bags to the grocery store, you can cut down on the 350 bags the average American uses each year and reduce the needless deaths to marine life caused by plastic bags that end up in streams, rivers and oceans. (I have BARC bags made from 100% recycled plastic bottles if you want one).
- BYOB. Last year Americans went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles. Fill up a reusable water bottle at home and bring it with you. Don't like the taste of your tap water? Buy a filter! (Remember, much of the bottled water today is filtered tap water anyway).
- Flip'em off. In much of America we can't even see the stars anymore, due in part to all the electric lights. Keep the light on in the room you're in, but the rest of your house dark.
- Get in touch with your roots. Plant a tree! Good for the soil, good for the birds, good for reducing global warming - and good for the air you're breathing!! Just make sure it's a native species!
- Get off. Catalogs are great when they're from companies you like to order from. But if you're getting catalogs from companies you don't buy from, call and tell them to you off their list---and that's an order. Start shopping on line with companies you do buy from.
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