Green Living Tips: Go Green in One Hour

To celebrate Earth Day, use our green living tips that take one hour of your time. We guarantee it can be done. Grab a pen and paper, your cell phone, a phone book if you have one and let's get rocking.

Green Living Tips: Go Green in One Hour: Tip 1

Replace your plastic water bottle with a glass bottle. Search your cabinets for a glass bottle with a lid. If you are concerned about breaking it, purchase a bottle cover or put it in a foam holder. I have seen new holders at thrift stores and garage sales. Banks and other places give them away for promotions.

Using glass instead of plastic reduces landfills and streams of petrochemicals. Many feel the petrochemicals cause cancer. If everyone in the US stopped using plastic water bottles, we would reduce the production of 144 billion plastic bottles per year.

Green Living Tips: Go Green in One Hour: Tip 2

Join freecycle.org. It's a place to post items to give away or to claim items that are posted. Recyclingsaves money and landfills.

Green Living Tips: Go Green in One Hour: Tip 3

Join dmaconsumers.org to stop junk mail. Junk mail contributes to litter, landfills and resource consumption.

Green Living Tips: Go Green in One Hour: Tip 4

Pour your morning coffee grounds around a houseplant. The grounds increase soil acidity which most plants like. The grounds are also a natural fertilizer which repels snails and slugs.

Green Living Tips: Go Green in One Hour: Tip 5

Clear food from the back of the refrigerator so the air circulates easily. This decreases energy consumption. Turn the thermostat to 37 degrees and the freezer to 0 degrees. These temperatures are the most energy efficient for refrigerators.

Check if the seal is tight enough on your refrigerator. Place a dollar bill so it is sticking out the door when it is closed. If you can pull the bill out while the door is closed, your seal isn't tight enough. Consider having a repairman replace the seal with a new one. Refrigerators are considered the largest energy consumer in our

homes.

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