Eat chilled fruit to keep cool. If you’re looking for green ways to keep cool this summer, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve gathered a variety of eco-friendly tips that either don’t use an air conditioner or help you use your air conditioner more efficiently. So, to keep you and the planet healthy
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It’s easy to express your love for the earth, friends and sweethearts by choosing green gifts and cards. The green gift ideas below will show how much you care for others while helping to protect natural resources. Good Green Habits for Cards and Gifts Purchase a card made from recycled paper. Write a poem or note in a If you find your mailbox jammed with catalogs, flyers and advertisements, you’re not alone. Over 114 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered each year by the US Post Office. Plus, Americans collectively pay about $370,000,000 to get rid of the portion that doesn’t get recycled. Good Green Habits for Junk Mail Individuals and business can take these FREE Many of us have noticed it’s starting to get a little chilly in the morning and at night. If you’ve slipped on your sweater and slippers and still think it’s cold, it might be time to turn on your heater. But before you take that step―remember to check the heater’s filter to make sure it’s clean. Good Green Habits for Heater Filters The Earth’s natural resources (like trees and water) are conserved whenever products and materials are used more than once. So, after you read your magazines, give them a longer life by allowing others to read them before they’re recycled into new paper products. Good Green Habits for Magazines You can extend the life of your old Care for a little plastic with your leftover pasta? Probably not, but you may be getting it. Foods placed in plastic wrap or plastic containers―and then heated in a microwave oven―can end up containing harmful chemicals leached from plastics. Many of the chemicals in plastic have been classified as toxic and unsafe for consumption. And, plastic containers labeled |
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