How Green Are You? | Parade.com Earth Day Questionnaire. Great Earth Day. Planting and Sowing… Try this simple questionnaire to see: How Green are You? Parade.com: How Green Are You? Pretty good questionnaire. I’m not as green as I should be. I drive too fast, for example. Couple questions were a little fuzzy. I didn’t like the rationale on the Light Bulb questions. See how you do. Only takes a couple minutes. Maybe it will lead…
Number 4. Transportation & Telecommuting. Consider alternatives before you drive some place. Smart phone “apps” let you do all kinds of comparison shopping without driving an inch. Consider carpooling. Most jobs can be done via telecommuting, at least occasionally. The savings are 5 to 10 times the price of the gas involved when consider the costs to the employer, employee and the environment. ToDo: Telecommute occasionally if your job allows it… Work to get your…
Number 3. Energy Efficiency. The savings for energy efficiency at home (and at the office, church, etc) can easily be 20% to 35% with a fractional investment. Ring up the local power company to schedule an energy audit. With very inexpensive fixes like duct tape, caulk, programmable thermostats, and timers, the utility savings can easily be $30 to $100 per month. (Payback in a couple months.) ToDo: Buy a couple Compact Florescent Light (CFLs) bulbs…
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Number 2. Reduce, reuse and recycle. You actually want to add rethink here. Something as simple as using water bottles saves hundreds of dollars per year, per person. You simply buy one or two water bottles and use them for years… refilling from fountain or tap water that is essentially free. ToDo: Buy (BPA-free) Water Bottles and start using them instead of bottled water and sodas. (A couple dollars invested results in up to $100…
Gleaning feeds the needy | Highlands Today: “Gleaning feeds the needy” Earth Day… Basic four things to do. Right now. Number 1. Health and wellness. People can’t be healthy, and they certainly can’t be productive, if they don’t have the basics of health and living conditions. Just drinkable water and basic sanitation is a critical issue. This combined with the lack of basic nutrition results in major health and wellness issues for approximately 2 billion of…
