Weekly Green Tips

October 23, 2008

Walk, bike, carpool or use mass transit. If you leave your car at home two days a week, you'll reduce CO2 emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. www.thedailygreen.org

October 16, 2008

Combine your routine shopping trips with other errands, which will save you time and fuel. www.thedailygreen.org

October 9, 2008

Buy a reusable bottle to take with you on the go, so you can always refill it from a tap and avoid buying bottled water. www.thedailygreen.org

October 2, 2008

Wash clothes in cold water whenever possible. As much as 85 percent of the energy used to machine-wash clothes goes to heating the water. www.worldwatch.org

September 25, 2008

Next time you buy a movie or event ticket, buy it online instead. A full sheet of paper is easier to recycle than cardboard tickets. www.greenbook.com

September 18, 2008

If 10% of Americans who walk as their main form of exercise walked outside instead of on a treadmill, you could save as much energy as it would take to drive a car forty thousand miles. www.greenbook.com

September 11, 2008

Instead of throwing away your coffee grounds, save them and put them in your garden as a fertilizer. www.compostgirl.com

September 4, 2008

By composting, a typical household can reuse more than 500 pounds of waste each year. www.compostgirl.com

August 28, 2008

Try to flush just one less time a day and you will save about 4.5 gallons of fresh water per day. www.greendaily.com

August 21, 2008

Producing 1 ton of paper from recycled stock saves up to 17 trees and uses 50% less water than making paper from virgin trees. www.ilacsd.org

August 14, 2008

Borrow from libraries instead of buying personal books and movies. This saves money, not to mention the ink and paper that goes into printing new books. www.worldwatch.org