1 post tagged “earth day”
What do you do EVERY day to take care of the earth's environment? What could you do more of?
daily:
what do i do to take care of earth's environment:
- walk to work
- use a real bowl and spoon to eat my oatmeal (it's such a pain in the butt to wash after)
- drop off all of my scratch paper into the recyling bin at the office
- place my can or bottle into the recycling bin
what i could do more of:
- walk back to work from lunch rather than drive back
- drink less bottled water; damn the convenience factor! i do use the same bottle to refill throughout the day. i am tempted to get a sigg bottle now.
- use something biogradable to store animal poop. any suggestions, cat/dog owners? i use plastic bags from the produce section of the market. i also reuse previously used produce bags when available
throughout the year:
what do i do to take care of earth's environment:
- recycle all reuseable boxes and packing materials from shipments to use for our own shipments; i.e. ms. jaycine sent me an envelope. i removed the address labels and reused the envelope to ship off greeting cards i sold
- take a reusable bag to the store; any store. i have a macy's reuseable bag for clothes shopping; always get compliments from the sales ladies when they ring me up
- minimize appliances plugged into the electric outlets to reduce phantom load
- take the mass transit when possible
- our household uses 85% compact fluorscent lights
- take junk mail, dead batteries, expired medicine, old make up, and old electronics to a hazardous waste event
- opt out of everything possible; i can't stand preapproved credit card applications!
- give away clothing and other items to goodwill
- give away old books and magazines to the library
- sign up for paperless statements for all of my bills and utilities
- sign up for green power with our power company; basically our energy is derived from renewable sources such as wind and solar
what i could do more of:
- visit the farmer's market to support local merchants
- turn off the tv or computer to conserve energy
- drive a more fuel efficient car
- use earth friendly cleaning products
