Go Green... I don't mean you have to wear green and eat green eggs and ham.
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Go Green Tips:
Eat Green:
Buy and eat organic foods! Better for the environment and your health. Some organic foods can be more expensive living on a budget research the best prices or local farmers markets for good deals for organic produce and foods.
Carpool, bike ride, and walk more:
Save money, help keep the air cleaner, and get fit!
Save money, reduce, and reuse #1:
Reuse your grocery bags paper or plastic for trash bags! Save money and reduce plastic waste by not purchasing new trash bags.
Save money, reduce, and reuse #2:
Reuse your grocery products and produce bags and packaging for pet droppings and cat litter. Such as: vegetable bags, bread bags, napkin or toilet paper packaging. Store these bags in a separate box or container then other trash bags to access easily when needed.
Reduce environmental hazards and trash #1:
Contact your local city hall or trash service on where or how to properly dispose of car oil or other hazardous wastes, paint, cleaning products, old medicines, and batteries. Store these only temporarily (don't keep hazardous waste around for long) and safely in separate containers until disposing properly and immediately. Old batteries can be stored for longer periods of time in a container, but don't wait too long or they will leak battery acid.
Reduce environmental hazards and trash #2:
Keep your car well maintained and leaking less or no oil. Oil spills onto streets and eventually washed into soil, or if by the beach drains into the oceans, either in streets or by washing your car. When washing your car, driveway, sidewalks done, choose environmentally safe cleaning products. Distilled vinegar and water or research a more natural car washing or soap cleaning product that can be used on your vehicle, etc. too.
Reduce environmental hazards and trash #3:
Choose environmentally friendly and natural soaps, cleaning products, shampoos, lotions, sun block lotion, make-up etc. Why? It's better for your health and also for the environment. Sun-block contains chemicals, these chemicals wash off into the oceans or through the drains effecting and ultimately poisoning our environment (as well as your system as it is adsorbed into your skin). Choosing natural cleaning products for yourself and home make sense for yourself and home and the earth!
Natural products can be expensive. Research for lower cost products. There are dish soaps that are more natural, laundry soaps too. If you can't afford the all natural brands, choose the dye free, perfume free brands which are less harsh. For cleaning products made naturally, simply mix distilled vinegar (buy a big bottle at a discount club store) with baking soda for a liquid cleaner to clean floors etc, or put in a spray bottle. Optionally, you can add some natural dish soap and you have a 'soft scrub' type cleaning product, plus it's less expensive!
Reduce environmental hazards and trash #4:
Simple one! Keep old grocery bags handy in your car for trash you might have while on the road from your kids, drive through food etc. This will prevent many the alternative of tossing cups or trash out a car window. Secondly, the trash that you do find while your out or in a parking lot such as a plastic bottle or Styrofoam or paper cup, you can use your grocery bag to pick it up, toss it in your trunk or a nearby trash can. The trash left on the road or other places ends up hurting nature and animals that inhabit the natural environment. If you live by the ocean like I do, trash easily ends up in drains on the sides of the road. These drains are meant for rain and water run-off, though trash also goes into the ocean through these drains.
Reduce environmental hazards and trash #5:
Recycle all you can if you can in the area you live.
Please bookmark these tips or other tips so everyday can be earth day! This seems like a lot, but once it is your lifestyle it's not. God put mankind in charge of the earth's resources and we are meant to care for the animals as well. Do your part and go green the best you can. I don't always follow every green tip, even ones I know, but I try to do my best and reduce, reuse, and recycle and try to live a more natural lifestyle and eat more natural as best as your budget allows. This is a reminder even to myself! As I re-think what I know about protecting the beautiful green earth that God gave us.
