Live Green - Small Steps

Here are a few easy things you can do right now to improve the environment:                                                             

• Turn off lights and appliances when they are not in use.
• Recycle anything that your community collects for recycling - usually glass, tin and aluminum cans, newspapers, boxes and other paper products, and plastic containers (check the number, since not all can be recycled).
• Offer to take recycling to the recycle location for any neighbors who may not be as willing or able to recycle as you are.
• Boycott companies which "over-package" their products.  Toy companies are prime offenders of over-packaging, which is very wasteful of environmental resources.
• Turn the water off while you brush your teeth.  You just need water to rinse.
• Be careful of wasting water whenever you can.
• Buy recycled paper or plastic products whenever you can.
• Wrap your presents in regular newspaper or comic papers with creative (recycled) decorations rather than purchased paper.  This saves money, too.  You can even take the money you would have spent on the wrapping paper and donate it to an environmental group.
• Print on the back side of paper whenever possible.
• Carpool whenever possible.
• Organize your errands so you make as few trips as possible to avoid wasting gas on unnecessary short, gas-guzzling trips.
• Help plan the family grocery shopping to minimize waste, buy fewer packaged products or those with environmentally friendly packages, and plan ways to use leftovers to reduce wasted food.
• Buy fruits and vegetables whenever possible from local farmers.  This saves wasted transportation and reduces the amount of preservatives needed to keep the produce fresh.
• In general:  Reduce - Reuse - Recycle!

Please send us any other good suggestions to help save the Earth!

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Did You Know?

The breadth and depth of the Global Green movement was on display in Kyoto, Japan, as the Asia-Pacific Green Network formally organized into an ongoing network of Greens, from Pakistan to the Pacific, from Mongolia to the Tasmanian Sea. Just days before the effective start date of the Kyoto Protocol Treaty on Climate Change, more than 400 Greens gathered from 23 Asian and Pacific nations.
Source: Green Pages - Sowing Green seeds in the Asia-Pacific region By Mike Feinstein, Green Party of California