What have you been doing lately to be more green? Post your answers in the comments or link to a recent blog post you’ve made about going green. Here’s my list:
- Cruise control while on the freeway
- Wash only full loads of laundry
- Cook at home rather than eating out and eat my leftovers
- Planted a lemon tree – fresh fruit and oxygen
- Put a bucket under the down spout to collect rain water for watering my new tree
- Recycle more paper at home
- Turn the thermostat down 2 degrees
- Bring my own reusable cup when I go to Starbucks
- Bring my own reusable grocery bags to the grocery store
- Ask for no bag if I’m only buying one or two items at other stores
- Reuse plastic grocery bags, newspaper, bubble wrap and cardboard boxes as eBay packing materials
- Combine all my errands into one trip on the weekend or stop on the way home from work during the week
- Unplug small appliances and consumer electronics when they’re not in use
- Reread some books I already have rather than buying new (I’m currently on Harry Potter book 5)
- Rent movies via iTunes to save fuel to and from the rental store and materials to make the DVD and packaging
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Hi Carrie.
Very good list. Never thought of renting via iTumes.
I’ve been fixing doors and especially windows so they aren’t as drafty and let the heat out.
Making sure the tyres are inflated properly and doing monthly engine check on the car so it doesn’t consume too much gas.
And we sort our garbage into paper, cardboard, glass, metal, hard plastic, lightbulbs, batteries.
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i must have really good tires because my car is now 3 years old and i’ve checked their pressure from time to time (or really i had my dad check them for me) and every single time they’ve measured perfectly. do enough other people have problems with their tire pressure such that it really needs checked on a monthly basis?
It’s just part of my routine. Never lost any air either but it’s a good idea – if you use your car alot – to spend a few minutes every month checking the parts that get a lot of use (engine and tyres). It might save you gas and you spot problems before they become a real problem.
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