Going Green Every Day
The Green Movement stands at the forefront of our cultural consciousness. This lens proposes to offer suggestions and resources, to show people how to develop a healthier and environmentally friendly lifestyle, one step at a time.
Don't Scrooge the Environment--Give Green
Three Green Gift Giving Tips to Dress Your Holidays in Holly
1. Plan your shopping trips, so that they occur along your usual routes as much as possible. If you work downtown take a stroll by the shops. Is there a shopping center or mall along your route from work? Check it out.
2. Carpool. If you're planning to go to the local outlet mall, get your friends together and make it a shopping date.
3. Give sustainable gifts: water bottles, canvas shopping bags (decorate them with fabric pens or iron on patches for a personal touch), or stainless steel travel mugs. Check out other suggestions on Treehugger's Holiday Gift Guide.
2. Carpool. If you're planning to go to the local outlet mall, get your friends together and make it a shopping date.
3. Give sustainable gifts: water bottles, canvas shopping bags (decorate them with fabric pens or iron on patches for a personal touch), or stainless steel travel mugs. Check out other suggestions on Treehugger's Holiday Gift Guide.
Urban Eco-Friendly Tips
Little Things You Can Do To Make Your Square of the City More Green
Here are five more things you can do this week to get more green in your life, courtesy of Bridging the Gap.org:
1. Run your dishwasher only when it'full.
2. Wash your laundry in warm or cold water rather than hot.
3. Seek non-toxic alternatives--cleaning agents, cosmetics, building materials, etc. Look for key words like "natural" and "biodegradable" in the ingredients list.
4. Recycle more--that blue tub is not a toy chest or a shoe bin--clear it out, put recyclables in it and put it on the curb!
5. Turn off your company's computer monitors at night.
For a list of simple steps you, your business or your school can take to improve our environment visit:
www.bridgingthegap.org/programs/individual/ceeMain.htm
1. Run your dishwasher only when it'full.
2. Wash your laundry in warm or cold water rather than hot.
3. Seek non-toxic alternatives--cleaning agents, cosmetics, building materials, etc. Look for key words like "natural" and "biodegradable" in the ingredients list.
4. Recycle more--that blue tub is not a toy chest or a shoe bin--clear it out, put recyclables in it and put it on the curb!
5. Turn off your company's computer monitors at night.
For a list of simple steps you, your business or your school can take to improve our environment visit:
www.bridgingthegap.org/programs/individual/ceeMain.htm
Urban Eco-Friendly Tips
Little Things You Can Do To Make Your Square of the City More Green
We're going to start slow--nothing too shocking to your system or your wallet. Here are five simple things you can do this week to color your square on the city grid green:
1. Switch to compact flourescent lights.
"If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars." Energy Star Website
2. Walk more,Bike, take public transportation, or carpool.
3. Invest in reusable canvas bags for grocery shopping.
4. Invest in a faucet water filter (Brita, Pur, etc.), and a reusable water bottle (some of which, come with a built in filter). Check out this article: Message in a Bottle; Reusable water bottles you'll actually want to use. By Laura Moser
5. Stop junk mail. "If 1000 people halved the
amount of junk mail they
received, we'd save 170 trees,
almost 46,000 pounds of CO2
and 70,000 gallons of water.
Find out how by following the links at
www.bridgingthegap.org /programs/recycling/
junk_mail.html."--Bridging the Gap.org
1. Switch to compact flourescent lights.
"If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars." Energy Star Website
2. Walk more,Bike, take public transportation, or carpool.
3. Invest in reusable canvas bags for grocery shopping.
4. Invest in a faucet water filter (Brita, Pur, etc.), and a reusable water bottle (some of which, come with a built in filter). Check out this article: Message in a Bottle; Reusable water bottles you'll actually want to use. By Laura Moser
5. Stop junk mail. "If 1000 people halved the
amount of junk mail they
received, we'd save 170 trees,
almost 46,000 pounds of CO2
and 70,000 gallons of water.
Find out how by following the links at
www.bridgingthegap.org /programs/recycling/
junk_mail.html."--Bridging the Gap.org
Green Stuff on Amazon
Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
Amazon Price: $12.75 (as of 07/11/2009) 
Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (Natural Home & Garden)
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/11/2009)
Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/11/2009)
Fill Your Future with Greener Days
Visit these webistes to learn more about simple things you can do to integrate green practices into your current lifestyle.
- Plenty Magazine
- Let PLENTY show you how easy it is to be green. Check out the latest updates on green gear,daily practices and accessories that add to your life while minimizing your impact on the environment.
- Environmental News and Humor | Grist
- Grist: environmental news, advice, cartoons, a blog, and more that'll make you laugh out loud.
- Change the Margins
- Save paper, money, a tree or two.... Extend the margins on your paper when you print for personal use, drafts, lists, etc.
- Stayin' Home and Lovin' It
Shrink your carbon footprint. Work from home.- Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News
- Eco-friendly news and updates
- What is the impact?
- A personal blog exploring the impact that various decisions and actions have on the environment.
- Safer Homes For Us
- Did you know? Today, children are exposed to thousands of substances in the environment, most of which have never been tested for toxicity to children.
Source: Center for Children's Health and the Environment of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Green Your Body
Strive for Balance: Fitness for the Body and the Mind
Great sources for fitness equipment and healthful living
- Vital Juice Daily
- Healthy living tips from Vital Juice Daily: your free, daily email focused entirely on health and wellness
- Big Fitness.com
- Exercise Equipment and Fitness Equipment for sale. Specializing in Used Fitness Equipment and Used cardio Equipment.
- Gaiam: Green Living, Yoga, Fitness, & Organic Products
- From yoga & fitness supplies to organic household goods and sustainable living tools, Gaiam is your source for products to help you live a healthy, green lifestyle. Buy yoga mats, green cleaners, fitness gear and photovoltaics from the leader in green living.
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