| 10 ways to live greener | | What will you do to contribute?1. Get a High-Efficiency Showerhead
A high-efficiency showerhead saves up to 3,000 gallons of water per person per year. You’ll also save $50 of energy costs and 1,000 .lbs of carbon dioxide per person per year. Today's latest and greatest are specially designed to conserve resources while still feeling like a decadent showerhead. Sink aerator attachments also save major water and go for as little as $2 per sink.2. Recycle Water in Your Bathroom
Use devices such as the Sink Positive system, which allows you to reuse sink water for flushing your toilet. Or keep a bucket by the shower or tub and fill it with the cold water that comes out before the hot water kicks in. Then you can take the bucket outside and use it to water your plants.3. Compost
Use a composter to turn your food and lawn wastes into rich mulch. It's a great way to reduce your trash production, and the combination of food waste and all of those falling leaves is the perfect mix for composting. Next spring you'll have rich compost ready to go for spring planting.4. Purchase Green Power From Your Utility
Most charge less than $5 per month extra. Not only will your... | |
| | Is our society worthy of so many vacations?? | | if you go back 60 years and more, people used to work very hard. From 4 am until 8 at night, they slaved away, always moving, and for what? So that they could live! They didn't have all the fancy elctronics and automatic dishwashers and clothes washers and dryers. They had gardens to mend, clothes to hand wash and hang, food to prepare and can and children to raise, among so many other things. And they didn't complain. Because it was just a common way of life. You work to survive.Now days we have so many automatic devices that are intended to make our lives easier. But do they? We can do so much with a touch of a button, but our lives are so 'stressfull'. Now when we work more than a 40 hour week of answering phones and typing reports--- we need a 3 day vacation! is this right? Are we just so lazy and taken in by all of these commercials advertising vacations that we think we need them???? | |
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