It’s a proven fact that tweaking your lifestyle even just a little bit can keep money in your pocket and keep our planet safe. With that fact in mind, we hope you’ll use the PG&E/Google gadget below to help you discover easy ways to consume less energy.
Good Green Habits to Save Energy & Money in Winter
- Click on Winter Gas Saving Tips―to find simple habits that can save money on your energy bill.
- Click on Winter Gas Saving Calculator―to find out how much energy you can save by adjusting the settings on your thermostat, water heater and clothes washer.
Gas Saving Tips & Calculator
Source: PG&E/Google
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Have you ever wondered why you shouldn’t put your used (i.e. grungy) napkins, paper towels and tissues in your recycling cart along with other paper products? The answer is quite simple. They aren’t accepted in recycling carts because they’re contaminated. Only clean paper products should go in your recycling cart.
Good Green Habits for Napkins, Paper Towels and Tissues
- Put used facial tissue, napkins and paper towels in your garbage cart―not in toilets or recycling and green waste carts.
- Place toilet tissue in toilets or garbage carts―toilet tissue cannot be recycled at this time.
IMPORTANT: You can place “food-soiled paper”―including napkins, paper towels and tissues―in your home compost bin since it is biodegradable. Or, if your city or garbage company offers a food recycling program, you may be able to place them in your green waste cart to be transferred to a composting facility.
Americans discard 25% more garbage between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day than at any other time of year──which adds 5 million extra tons of garbage in our landfills each year!
Good Green Habits for Eco-Friendly Gift Wrap
You can help generate less waste during the holiday season with these easy green steps:
- Cover gifts with felt and reuse the felt next year─this works especially well with odd sized gifts!
- Wrap gifts in old maps, colorful newspaper comics, posters, reusable gift bags, and decorated paper bags, cardboard boxes or baskets.
- Decorate them with reusable ribbons, twine or bows—and after opening presents, save them for next year.
- Buy low-cost rolls of leftover wrapping paper from Goodwill or the Salvation Army.
- Purchase gift wrap made from 100% recycled paper or paper made tree-free fibers such as hemp.
- Make gift tags from last year’s holiday cards.
A few of our friends and readers have reported that they find “going green” is a difficult idea to wrap their minds around on a daily basis. Even though we are bonafide green cheerleaders, Good Green Habits understands this feeling completely.
There are days when you just don’t want to make the extra effort. You want a plastic bottled water and you don’t want to feel guilty about buying it. Well, if somebody hasn’t already said this to you, allow us to be the first. It’s OK to have off eco days. When it comes to taking eco steps, big or small, the important thing is to do the best you can do─whatever that means to you. We’d rather help you stay on the green path sometimes than to have you give up completely. That’s how much faith we have in you.
Good Green Habits for Eco Inspiration
Take one or all of these actions if you find you’re having a bad green day:
- Just do the best you can do today.
- Go greener tomorrow.
- Step outside and appreciate the Earth’s beauty─this will make you want to do more.
- Take baby-steps until you’re recharged─turn off the water when brushing your teeth, recycle newspapers─anything you do helps.
