Are you seeing for some quick ideas on how to be more environmentally amiable this year? Here are 25 easy ways to make a unavoidable impact on the planet, without making a noticeable impact on your wallet.
1. Replace incandescent bulbs with fluorescent bulbs in your home. If your budget is tight, reconsider replacing one for each paycheck. By the end of the year, you should have all of your bulbs substituted and a lower electricity bill.
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2. Never accumulate an additional one paper or plastic shopping bag again. Buy a cloth bag to use for smaller loads and recycle those plastic bags you already have nearby the house. Keep some bags by your front door, in your car, at work, or in a handbag as a reminder never to leave the house or work without your packing supplies. When you stop off to buy groceries or an additional one item after work, you'll be prepared.
3. Insulate your home in key areas. Add weather stripping nearby windows and doors. Wrap your water heater. Put plastic sheets nearby windows in the winter. Buy heavy drapes for windows particularly prone to drafts.
4. reconsider organizing or joining a carpool to get to work or use collective transportation. You'll enjoy the enterprise and feeling of camaraderie from a carpool that's united in a cause and if using collective transportation, get some exercise, too.
5. Use cloth products whenever possible. Use dish towels instead of paper towels, cloth napkins instead of paper and the old fashioned handkerchief instead of facial tissues.
6. Make an endeavor to use cloth diapers for your baby instead of plastic. If it's a difficult opinion for you, try using cloth while the day and plastic at night to start.
7. Invest in buying green cleaning supplies for your home instead of the harsh chemical products you may be used to. If you're on a strict budget, try one new stock each month and by the end of the year, you will have substituted your old products with green products.
8. When getting money from an Atm machine, pick "No" when it asks if you want a receipt. You'll save some trees and it will help you to be more disciplined in your budget and record-keeping as you'll get in the habit of writing it all down in a timely way.
9. Make it a goal to never throw away used clothing, toys or workable household goods again. Give them away or sell them in a garage sale on-line or consignment shop.
10. Use power-strips on all your appliances and electronics. Turn them off daily when you leave your home.
11. Unplug your cell phone charger daily when you leave your home with your phone.
12. Turn off the lights when you leave a room.
13. Buy solar lighting for covering areas.
14. Give gifts that are economically friendly. There are many businesses now that have thoughtful gifts, such as planting trees in someone's name, getting rid of junk mail and environmentally amiable clothing.
15. When sending birthday or holiday cards to family and friends, send all cards electronically to those who have computer access. You will save some trees and have some extra cash to spare.
16. report your city's recycling rules and make sure you are not unnecessarily throwing something away. As the awareness expands on the need for recycling, the types of appropriate items may also change, so it's foremost to report it every year.
17. Keep businesses that are environmentally friendly.
18. create a compost in your back yard or even under your kitchen sink. There are businesses that sell composting worms for apartment dwellers.
19. reconsider addition your charitable giving this year by giving some or all to environmentally amiable causes.
20. Turn down your thermostat in the winter and up in the summer, and Invest in a programmable thermostat.
21. Air dry clothes instead of using a clothes dryer.
22. Make sure laundry and dishwasher loads are full before using them.
23. Take an list of the chemicals you are putting on your lawn and reconsider seeing at your lawn as a small child would. Help create a cleaner water supply by seeing the beauty in the natural "wild flowers" instead of seeing at them as "weeds." Whenever possible, use natural remedies for problem areas.
24. Urge your local, state and national government leaders to vote for natural beautification remedies and strategies for the community you live in. Come to be an advocate by emailing letters to key governmental officials for change.
25. Share this list with family, friends and colleagues for a greener planet Earth!
25 Easy Things You Can Do To Make The World a little Greener
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