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Here is a great list of eco-friendly actions you can take or share with others. Take a look at number 7, reducing sports equipment waste.
Ideas for green living
1. Use fish tanks water for plants
Do you have a fish or know someone who does? Hang around when they empty their tank and get free nutrient rich free water for your plants.
2. Fresh versus canned fruit
The industrialized process of canning fruit uses a ton of energy to get done. Then the cans have to be trucked across the country to your store.
3. Butcher meat versus plastic packaged
Unknown to many is the fact that the packaged meat occasions waste. The extra portions served up due to being enclosed in the packaged plastic meat don’t happen as much with the butcher packages cut up and wrapped to order.
4. Have a Forkless Friday
The debate between skipping plastic cutlery in the office cafeteria or restaurant and using real plates and silverware (thus causing hours of dishwasher spray and overuse) has evolved one step further. Fridays, try to eat fresh fruit, corn on the cob, salad lettuce wraps or whatever with no silverware involved. Dolphins and hoses be spared.
5. Recycle a Ceiling Fan
Ceiling fans take a portion of the energy air conditioners do. Find a discarded but working ceiling fan locally or on Freecycle.org and make it work for you. Your power costs will go down, you’ll be sparing the landfill, and you’ll avoid the big box fuel and packaging guilt.
6. Fur Collar Crime
There’s white collar crime, pink collar crime, and blue collar crime. And then there’s fur collar crime. choose and encourage others to choose canvas pet collars instead of vinyl or faux leather or suede. The offgassing and chemical processes required to make this material is unnecessary especially for this item.
7. Rethink Your Equipment
Sports equipment like aluminum baseball bats and sports bikes and pressurized tennis balls utilize pointless manufacturing energy considering they are going to be utilized by the biounit of all time, the human body. Natural string rackets are a more eco-friendly choice. Buy only golf clubs you need and try to find your child a recycled materials helmet and spare the landfill.
8. Create a Bower
Find a way to make the house cooler by building green bowers, arbors, structural lattices or shelves near windows or flat planes of buildings which otherwise would absorb heat during triple digit weather. Water these plants briefly with a spray hose, then turn on the interior ceiling fan. Lots of coolness for less energy and cost.
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