Traveling for the Holiday Season?  Here are some ‘Green Tips’ to consider:
Turn your ignition off when you will be stopped or parked for more than thirty seconds.  Idling for more than thirty seconds burns more gas than it takes to restart the engine or than if the car were moving, and thus produces more toxic [...]

Here are a few kitchen ‘Green Tips’ for those of you who will be spending an entire week in the kitchen with Thanksgiving right around the corner:
Fill a bowl with cold water and wash fruit and vegetables this way, instead of letting water from a faucet run over them.
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Cut back on wrapping waste by placing gifts in reusable bags or baskets.  If you prefer traditional wrapping paper, try to find a brand with recycled content and then reuse any large pieces to wrap presents again next year.  Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, Americans produce an extra two billion pounds of garbage per week, [...]

More holiday Green Tips:
Instead of tying ribbons on your holiday packages this year, garnish them with recyclable paper bows (natural-fiber raffia), dried flowers, or a reusable scarf.  If two out of three households conserved an arm’s length of ribbon, the amount could tie a bow around the earth.
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green [...]

Use porcelain plates, silverware, and glasses instead of plastic and paper.  Each year, forty billion plastic utensils are thrown into landfills across the country.  Besides waste, you can save money, too.  Using your own utensils, glasses, and flatware is free, whereas the cost of plastic plates, forks, knives, and cups for a total of fifty [...]

Only 2.5 percent of students who live within two miles of school get there via bicycle.  Still by not taking a bus or a car, those six hundred thousand students are saving almost one hundred thousand gallons of gasoline-a day.
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green Book.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
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If you’re planning to purchase a tree this Christmas, the greenest choice is a living tree that can be reused or replanted.  If this is not an option, natural cut trees are preferable to artificial varieties.  Although artificial trees are potentially endlessly reusable, they are usually made from non-renewable PVC plastic, contain trace amounts of [...]

Since the holiday season is soon approaching here are just a few tips to consider:
Purchase greeting cards made from recycled or tree-free materials.  Americans send two billion holiday cards each year, so just a 1 percent reduction could save fifteen thousand trees.
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green Book.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
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Line dry your sheets in warm months.  If you’ve got two trees in you back or side yard, you can string up a clothesline in minutes.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
I line dry all of my cleaning rags, towels, sheets, and clothes.  One simple tip from me…..don’t forget the fabric softener!  [...]

Buy phosphate-free detergent.  Phosphates are a cause of oxygen depletion in water, leading to the loss of aquatic life.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
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