Most of us do this already, because it is very natural to do so, but I thought it would be fun to re-state the obvious.
Sleeping when it’s dark will save you lots of money on electricity because your lights can stay off. Maybe this means going to bed a bit earlier and getting up earlier, but it is an easy way to reduce your environmental impact. Who knows, you might even start to enjoy a new rhythm of working with the Earth’s natural light/dark cycle.
If you would buy eggs in cardboard cartons instead of those “nice” styrofoam containers, you would keep the landfills a lot emptier. Sometimes it takes some effort to find similar-priced eggs packaged in cardboard, but they are out there, and this small action helps keep bad chemicals out of our environment.
If you’re curious, the Earth Resource Foundation goes into detail about how bad styrofoam is.
Yes, Halloween is almost here, so we’re seeing more and more decorations go up.
This year, maybe we don’t have to buy the newest blow-up decoration for the lawn. The one from last year or the years before will still do. If you need to have something new, have you tried making something yourself? There must be lots of great stuff around the house that you can transform into Halloween decorations.
When it’s time to carve your pumpkins, try to use the insides as well. If you don’t know how, then check this recipes page for some ideas. You can make anything, from jam to muffins to soup
Then there are the costumes. I know yours needs to be better than those of your friends. But do you really think buying a factory-made costume from the store is the best way to stand out?
Try making your costume yourself and impress your friends with your creativity. In particular, kids should be encouraged to make their own costumes, because their young minds are still bursting with imagination, and the expensive store-bought costume certainly won’t fit next year.
If you can’t make your own costume, go to a secondhand store. You’ll often find a huge section of costumes, or separate pieces that can go together to make a great Halloween character.
I hope you gave this post a good read, and I hope it’ll inspire you to do something. We don’t want all that extra stuff to end up in the landfills after the celebration is over. If you’re sick of your old costume, a thrift store will be happy to take it.
If you turn off your mobile phone when you’re not using it, you will extend your phone’s battery life and you won’t have to charge it as much. And when you turn off your phone at night, you may even sleep better! Research showed that people sleep better without the radiation emitted by cell phones. You don’t have to believe it, but after months of months of not sleeping, turning off the cell phone “cured” my insomnia.
So besides going easy on the power lines, you and your family will enjoy a better night’s sleep.
If you like to keep your fridge empty, then you spend more on electricity to keep your fridge cool. But you can get around that very simply by putting some bottles of water in your fridge. The inside of your fridge will stay cold with a lot less help from the power socket.
See how easy it is to save the enviroment and pad your wallet!
Don’t worry - you’re still allowed to watch TV as much as you want - but when you’re not using it don’t just leave it on standby. Your TV will eat up a lot less power if you turn it off or, even better, unplug it.
Did you know that quite a few TV models out there use more power while on standby than while turned on? Surprising, but true.
That’s some savings for your electric bill and an extension on your TV’s working life. One less TV in the landfill leaves more room for some green plant life.
Remember the post about how you can just as well drink tap water because bottle water is not much better?
If not have a look at THE ARTICLE HERE.
But now researchers showed that even bottle water contains the bad chemicals that your tab water could have BUT the big difference is that you can find out what the quality of your tab water is because they need to give out a test report if you want one. Not with bottle water.
And in a study it even showed that some bottled water contain more of surtain chemicals that some states in the USA allow in tap water.
My advice again would be don’t get the expensive bottle water just filter you own it will not make you healthier but it is just as bad or maybe even better.
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Bottled water contains disinfection byproducts, fertilizer residue, and pain medication
Go see the little 1 minutes movie below and see how MTV wants to tell you how to save water.
They don’t really want you to go pee in the park, but they want you to flush less when you go to the washroom. I wonder how someone can flush less. I can imagine that if you are alone you can just flush once a day or something but besides that I don’t see what else we can do.
Maybe we should just all get low flow toilets that use a lot less water then the old water guzzlers.
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MTV ad takes aim at water waste
I guess we all like to drive nice and fast. But did you know that 90 km per hour gives you the best mileage on your vehicle?
So does it really make a big difference to drive 100 instead of 90, especially when you can save fuel by going a bit slower?
Again this is a big money-saver, and of course the world around us can breathe easier with a little less greenhouse gas.
The big airlines of this world did not really keep up with time. They still use radar systems to plot there course and that while even the kids on the playground have GPS in their Cell Phones.
What would happen if airlines would change to to a GPS based system?
An Associated Press analysis of federal and industry data found that if the new system were already in place, airlines could have saved more than $5 billion in fuel this year alone. (only based on US airlines).
Oh man that means we could have saved 5 billion dollars worth of fuel and what would that have done to our planet. 5 Billion dollars could save you a lot of green house gasses. And it could be even enough to maybe make your fuel bill a couple of cents lower every time you go to the pump.
Why or why are airlines stupid enough to remove the Video entertainment system from their planes to save fuel while a simple GPS solution would have saved them a bundle.
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