So I'm writing for a new site—OneMillionActsofGreen.com--which I hope you will all check out.
One of the coolest features is the ability to enter your "acts of green," such as "I turn off the water when I brush my teeth," or "I have solar panels installed on my roof," into a "Green Calculator," which will tell you exactly how much carbon you're NOT putting into the atmosphere.
Other cool features are, of course, mine. Like, "How to Green Your Clean," that gives you some consumer advice about good, ecologically safe cleaning supplies as well as recipes to make your own environmentally friendly stuff.
Or a story about an insanely cool Chicago eatery that boasts its own organic rooftop farm.
If you do visit (and I hope you do) and register your “acts of green,” come back and report your carbon savings here. I’d love to hear about it!
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Thanks! Now I'm gonna go and read your cleaning tips.
I'm actually in the process of working on new "acts of green" to add. I agree that many of the acts currently up are skewed toward homeowners, so will gratefully accept any and all ideas for new ones!
If, so, then I'm a Greenie!
-reuse plastic grocery bags, or better yet, bring resuable ones with you to the store.
-Choose items with less packaging
- Donate old magazines to schools, hospitals etc
- if driving, plan trips to burn as little gas as possible ( as opposed to dashing all over the city)
- stick a "no bulk mail sign" on your mailbox ( I used to get massive amounts of flyers)
dispose of household hazardous materials properly empty propane tanks, dead batteries, etc)
As more stuff occurs to me, I'll pop back and post them
Wanna know something really surprising? Recycling one single aluminum can saves enough energy to power your television for three hours.
Probably the single most "impactful" green act you can take is to telecommute. Americans spend an average of 47 hours idling in traffic each year on their way to or from the office. Telecommuting just one day a week makes an enormous difference! Also, so much more relaxing!