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Interested in going green?
Here are a variety of tips compiled from government agencies.
- Plant and tend a tree. If every American family planted one tree, those trees those trees would remove more than a billion pounds of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere every year.
- Save emergu by turning off appliances and lights when not in use and purchase energy-efficient models.
- Reduce use of heat and air conditioning and keep the system in good repair.
- Insulate the home, water heater and pipes to reduce energy loss.
- Reduce the number of vehicle trips to lower gas use and pollution.
- Don't run the water while shaving or brushing your teeth, and keep drinking water in the refrigerator to avoid running the faucet.
- Wash only full loads.
- Repair all water leaks. A leaky toilet can waste 200 gallons a day.
- Water the lawn and garden in the early morning to reduce evaporation during the heat of the day.
- Use soaker hoses or trickle irrigation systems to prevent water loss due to spray.
- Buy and use only, what is needed, in products with less packaging and items that are more permanent. Repair items if possible, instead of buying new.
- Use coffee mugs instead of paper cups.
- Clean empty jars to hold left-over food.
- Donate items instead of throwing them away, including partial containers of paint.
- Recycle paper, plastic, glass, cardboard, aluminum, electronics and motor oil.
- Compost
- If regularly leaving lights on at night, use sensor contols that automatically turn lightson at dusk and off at dawn.
- Decorate using light colors. Dark colors absorb light, prompting the use of more or higher wattage lights.
- Instead of brighter night lights, use new green or blue-green ones that use black light technology, because they consume far less energy.
- Select solar for walkways and atio lights.
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