Earth Day is with us again. Each year Earth Day becomes more and more important to us all. We are finding more reasons to be good to our environment and there are more things now that we all can do than ever before. The most popular is going green with drinking water. The first thing you need to do is get rid of bottled water. We all want healthy water in our bodies, but we must make sure that we are all doing the right thing for Mother Earth. At home and away, portable filtered water bottles are the best thing to use. These water filters work great and can be reused for months and years. Do your part: Save your health. Save your planet. Save yourself.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Going green at work is possible!
Monday, January 14th, 2008Most people can pat themselves on the back for going green at home, but why are we forgetting these new green habits so quickly when we arrive at work? In a recent survey by a government advisory body known as Envirowise, a third of office workers did nothing to be green at work. Many of the same ideas that work at home will work at the office. The following are some easy things to do at work to make a green impact!
1) For starters, even though it is not your electricity bill wasting energy costs us all in the end. Leaving your computer on 24/7 costs around $50 a year. Switch it off when your not working and on weekends and that figure drops to $14. That’s enough to make 21,000 cups of coffee!
2)Drinking coffee or tea at the office in styrofoam cups is definately not green! Three billion polystyrene cups a year are dispensed by vending machines. So to be GREEN take a mug/cup to work, and encourage your workmates to do the same thing. If your machine doesn’t have a ‘no cup’ option, recycle the plastic ones or opt to get a new machine.
3) Eating with plastic utensils is another waste created at the office. When eating on the go say “NO” to plastic utensils that restaurant staff slip into your to-go-bag, or at the least, wash them and continue to reuse them. You might start bringing a knife, fork and spoon from home.
4) Only 50% of offices choose to recycle the printer’s used toner cartridges. These can contain up to 135 components, many of which can be reconditioned to come to life again as a ‘new’ toner cartridge. There are many companies you could contact to set up a recycling program.
5) Educate your employer on how much money they could save by reducing their use of their resources, and you’re sure to get their support. Not to mention great ideas given to management can really help you climb the corporate ladder.
6) Push to eliminate the use of bottled water and introduce filtered water bottles; the affordable, convenient alternative to bottled water. No longer should you see a bottle of water sitting on your co-worker’s desks. Tell them all about water filter bottles and tell them how much money it will save them and how much it will save our planet.
7) Find out where your nearest recycling point is, and take your own plastic and glass bottles and cans. Or if your workplace is big enough, get a local company to make a collection.
Now you have all the information you need to get started going green at the office! No more excuses! Make a positive impact!
Going Green Today!!
Friday, December 7th, 2007Green is the new black! Everywhere people are talking about “green.” From every walk of life, it seems there is a green slant. Even TV shows, movies, and even food have taken the “green plunge.” What does that mean for you? Most of us have never worried about if we left a light bulb on, much less about how much water we used when we took a shower. So what has turned everyone onto being and doing green? Many people are concerned about their education, their children, and their overall “carbon footprint.” Energy, food, and water are on the top of the green priority list, and they should be on yours, too. Energy consumption is very easy, and can even save you money! The average household in the US consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. This can easily be reduced with a few simple and inexpensive steps.
First, turn up or down your thermostat, depending on the weather. It’s obviously not necessary to be running you’re a/c or heater when you are not there. A programmable thermostat is even better. It will turn itself off and on to not only save you money, but save on energy and thus “go green.” You also should change your most used light bulbs to low-energy or fluorescent. Energy surveys can also be done for free by your local utility company and can give you a personal plan of attack for lowering your energy consumption.
How do you go green with food? Buy local as much as possible! Visit the farmer’s market in your area. There are also local places where you can find organic meat, vegetables, eggs and goods at fair prices. Buying local saves the atmosphere from absorbing millions of tons of carbon emissions. If you have a green thumb, you might want to start a garden! This is such a great activity to do with your family. Organic milk and eggs are easy to begin buying first, and you can branch out from there.
Although this last area has been in the spot light recently, many people still over-look their water usage and waste. You don’t have to buy an expensive filtration system for the home, nor do you have to fill up a bunch of bottles every day from home to avoid buying bottled water. The easy solution to cut down on your water costs and the plastic waste created by plastic bottles is to purchase water filter bottles. It’s such a simple idea, and can drastically reduce your energy consumption. Portable bottle filters have the added benefit of being healthy for you. They are the perfect alternative to bottled water. They play a tremendous role in reducing waste and they are cool! Most people haven’t heard of filtered water bottles or other types of portable water filters, so you should do your part to get the word out. If you see somebody walking down the street with a bottle of store-bought bottled water, tell them how much energy they are wasting, and how to use a filter bottle.
Go Green Today!
Sunday, November 25th, 2007It is estimated that about 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away every day! Yes, that’s every day!
Almost all of these bottles, as you can imagine, are from water bottles. Consumers are craving clean, fresh water wherever they go and are thus using these plastic water bottles at an ever-increasing rate every day. Even with the new “Go Green” campaign that is sweeping the US and Canada, the number of bottles poured into our environment is still way too high.
What can you do? Go Green is really the only answer. You have to be conscious of everything that you do and everything that you consume. Make sure that the products you use are as environmentally friendly as possible. If you are using a product, make sure that you are using it as green as possible.
The main item people can cut down on immediately is bottled water. Cutting the plastic bottle waste down would go a great deal in helping the landfills and energy consumption in the country. Make sure you are using water filter bottles wherever you go instead of buying bottled water. These specially designed bottles have a filter built into the bottle that will actually filter water as you drink. They are designed to be reused for years and years, thus saving millions of trash bottles every day. Such a simple idea can make a huge difference.
Start your Go Green campaign today, get a water bottle filter and cut down on that waste.