Do you know how many people litter each day? Did you know 4.3 trillion cigarette butts are littered each year! Well you can help by stopping littering.
The average person litters 4.4 pounds a day!!! Each year the United states produces 230 tons of trash.
Before you litter think of all the landfills and all the trash covering our oceans that kill thousands of fish. Also when you litter think of the birds.
Nothing like good old-fashioned, self-inflicted, Catholic guilt to keep a guy honest when he’s doing his business.
That’s right, I started counting the squares of toilet paper I’d use each day. Got a problem with that?
I posted a piece of scrap paper right there next to the toilet, kept a pencil on hand, and tallied those suckers up before I even got off the pot. Kept me busy.
I did it with the full intention of making it an open-ended project (no horrifying pun intended), but ended up stopping after two weeks. The cool thing is, the record-keeping may be over, but the always positive enviro-guilt continues! I may not be keeping exact tabs on my wiping habits anymore, but I still pay attention to how much I’m ripping off with each swipe at the roll.
Ahhhh, yes… I can hear the forests sigh with pleasure every time I approach that glorious porcelain throne in the rear end of the house. That is the forests sighing, right?
So many things today are considered disposable. Think about it, disposable razors, paper plates, plastic ware just to name a few. Considering how cheap things are, especially kids toys that are made of plastic in China, we even consider those disposable. When a toy is broken, as commonly happens with kids stuff, try fixing it before pitching it.
Today I was able to successfully fix my daughter’s bubble machine (pictured). More…
A lot of people enjoy watching TV and movies at home. My family really does. Most folks have some variation of entertainment system setup at home. Some basic components that almost every entertainment system include are TV, DVD Player and/or VCR and cable box. Some larger entertainment systems include a stereo receiver, CD player, DVR (e.g. TiVo), MP3 player and more. What most people don’t realize is that each of these components draws power even when turned off and it can be a considerable amount when you combine all the components in your entertainment center.
Why do they draw power even when they are turned off? A common reason is so that you can use the remote control to turn them on.
A good device/component, in my opinion, is one that uses the least power when turned off. In the entertainment center world good is under 2W when off. Bad can be >90W (WHEN TURNED OFF) and even 20W over time adds up very quickly. With a few minutes and a power strip, I have been able to lower the vampiric load of my entertainment center by 40W, read on to find out how you can do the same and what this will save you over time. More…
How long does it take to get clean in the shower? Is it 10 minutes? Did you know that a 10 minutes shower with a non-low flow shower head can use upwards of 80 gallons of water and generate up to 4 pounds of CO2, not to mention the cost of the energy to heat the water.
By installing a low flow shower head and cutting your shower time to 5 minutes you can reduce your water usages and CO2 emitted by More…
Sometimes recycling things takes a little work, but thankfully a little effort can go a long way. Every week in the summer time, I play softball. The captain of the team brings a cooler of ice cold bottled water to the game, bless him. Unfortunately, there are only trash cans near the softball fields. For the past couple weeks, I have started collecting the empty water bottles and bringing them home to put in our recycling bin, which the town picks up. Except for my teammates trying to move my collection of bottles to the trash barrels, last week I had to intercept two of my teammates who had kindly picked up the bottles to throw away, this has been really easy. I load a dozen or so empty bottles More…
How many do you plan to read, and then go back and read or reference again after that? Those are the ones that I think are probably worth buying. The rest you probably could have gotten from the library and been just as happy.
I hate the thing — mostly because when I turn it off, it doesn’t cool off. Not for a few minutes anyway. Way inefficient.
But I’ve recently realized I can at least make the most of that annoying electric-stove characteristic by shutting it down a little early and riding the heat wave home to the finish line.
Tonight’s noodle soup, for example, required holding the soup at a boil for 3 minutes after More…
Ahhh, “reduce” and “reuse” — the poor stepchildren of “recycle.” Truth is, the grand green triumverate starts with “reduce” and “reuse” for a reason.
Recycling is nice, I suppose, if you’ve absolutely got to use and dispose of something. But the recycling process still uses up a lot of energy — and it’s nearly impossible to say how efficient the process is in More…
Some 130 million bikes were produced worldwide in 2007 — more than double the number of cars rolling off assembly lines (52 million). Bike production took off in the 1970s, and after a brief dip, has been soaring since 2001.
So, why don’t you hop on and get with the cool kids. It saves gas, which saves money and reduces your CO2 emissions. It’s healthy for the body and, More…
It makes a difference.
So many things today are considered disposable. Think about it, disposable razors, paper plates, plastic ware just to name a few. Considering how cheap things are, especially kids toys that are made of plastic in China, we even consider those disposable. When a toy is broken, as commonly happens with kids stuff, try fixing it before pitching it.
A lot of people enjoy watching TV and movies at home. My family really does. Most folks have some variation of entertainment system setup at home. Some basic components that almost every entertainment system include are TV, DVD Player and/or VCR and cable box. Some larger entertainment systems include a stereo receiver, CD player, DVR (e.g. TiVo), MP3 player and more. What most people don’t realize is that each of these components draws power even when turned off and it can be a considerable amount when you combine all the components in your entertainment center. 
How long does it take to get clean in the shower? Is it 10 minutes? Did you know that a 10 minutes shower with a non-low flow shower head can use upwards of 80 gallons of water and generate up to 4 pounds of CO2, not to mention the cost of the energy to heat the water.
Sometimes recycling things takes a little work, but thankfully a little effort can go a long way. Every week in the summer time, I play softball. The captain of the team brings a cooler of ice cold bottled water to the game, bless him. Unfortunately, there are only trash cans near the softball fields. For the past couple weeks, I have started collecting the empty water bottles and bringing them home to put in our recycling bin, which the town picks up. Except for my teammates trying to move my collection of bottles to the trash barrels, last week I had to intercept two of my teammates who had kindly picked up the bottles to throw away, this has been really easy. I load a dozen or so empty bottles 
How many books are on your bookshelf?
Got an electric stove? I do, unfortunately.
Ahhh, “reduce” and “reuse” — the poor stepchildren of “recycle.” Truth is, the grand green triumverate starts with “reduce” and “reuse” for a reason.
Bikes are on the rise around the world, according to 
