1. Green Your Lighting:
Compact fluorescent lightbulbs can be purchased at most local hardware stores and cost under $4 each. These lightbulbs can save you $30 off your lighting bill in comparison to standard incandescant lighting.
Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs save energy, last longer and ultimately save you money while saving the environment!
2. Green Cleaning:
Your typical household cleaners and bug-killers could be hosting over 200 industrial compounds, pollutants and other chemicals. These harmful chemicals are dangerous for your health, the health of your children and pets and the environment as a whole. Chemicals in cleaning products have been implicated in Parkinson’s disease, infertility, brain damage, and cancer.
Make sure to only buy organic, all-natural cleaning products. Natural cleaning products are becoming more available in most grocery stores.
3. Green Your Shopping:
Typical plastic shopping bags you get at the store are made from petroleum-based plastic which is not biodegradable. Every year Americans use up to 100 billion plastic bags which leads to 12 million barrels of oil!
Thousands of animals chike to death on plastic bags they mistake as food.
Bring reusable canvas shopping bags with you every time you shop and save an animals life!
4. Green Your Garden:
Don’t use synthetic fertilizers or chemical pesticides. Americans use 80 million pounds of pesticides per year in their gardens. These toxic chemicals pose threats to your environment and the health and safety of your family and pets.
Instead use compost and native plants in your garden. Native plants are adapted to the environment and require less water and less attention.
5. Buy Local:
American Produce travels a minimum of 1,500 miles to make it into your grocery store. This wastes a tremendous amount of fossil fuels that release unhealthy carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other harmful pollutants into the air.
When you buy local, you support local farmers and thus support your environment.
Buying local benefits your health, your local economy, your local farmers and the environment!