Tips and tricks to save the environment(and your wallet )

[HejiraNYC]

I don't eat meat.
I don't wear leather.
I live in the city.
I mostly bike, walk or take public transportation.
I recycle almost everything.
I repair vs. throwing away.
I buy secondhand stuff whenever possible, e.g., furniture, books, bicycles, cars, etc.
I use items until they are completely destroyed.
I try to buy the highest quality that I can afford, so that I don't have to keep replacing an item.
I reuse my Trader Joes insulated shopping bag when grocery shopping.
I use CFL bulbs.
I live in a tiny, tiny space (during the week).
I don't have A/C in my apartment by choice.
I take brief lukewarm showers using as little water pressure as possible.
I request to receive/pay all of my bills electronically.
I try to buy American-made products whenever I can.
I try to buy locally grown produce whenever I can.
I boycott Wal Mart.

My weekend house has solar photovoltaic panels.
It also has geothermal heating/cooling.
It also has tankless water heaters.
It also has a drywell system for absorbing stormwater runoff.
It has low-E double-paned windows.
It has only Energy Star rated appliances.

My goals for the future are to:

-Start composting vegetable/fruit scraps.
-Build a clothesline on the roofdeck or the backyard.
-Buy a plug-in electric/hybrid vehicle.
-Start my own organic vegetable/fruit garden.
-Xeriscaping the yard.

[David]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I don't eat meat.
I don't wear leather.
I live in the city.
I mostly bike, walk or take public transportation.
I recycle almost everything.
I repair vs. throwing away.
I buy secondhand stuff whenever possible, e.g., furniture, books, bicycles, cars, etc.
I use items until they are completely destroyed.
I try to buy the highest quality that I can afford, so that I don't have to keep replacing an item.
I reuse my Trader Joes insulated shopping bag when grocery shopping.
I use CFL bulbs.
I live in a tiny, tiny space (during the week).
I don't have A/C in my apartment by choice.
I take brief lukewarm showers using as little water pressure as possible.
I request to receive/pay all of my bills electronically.
I try to buy American-made products whenever I can.
I try to buy locally grown produce whenever I can.
I boycott Wal Mart.

My weekend house has solar photovoltaic panels.
It also has geothermal heating/cooling.
It also has tankless water heaters.
It also has a drywell system for absorbing stormwater runoff.
It has low-E double-paned windows.
It has only Energy Star rated appliances.

My goals for the future are to:

-Start composting vegetable/fruit scraps.
-Build a clothesline on the roofdeck or the backyard.
-Buy a plug-in electric/hybrid vehicle.
-Start my own organic vegetable/fruit garden.
-Xeriscaping the yard.

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[LiamMcConville]

[QUOTE=HejiraNYC;728409]
I buy secondhand stuff whenever possible, e.g., furniture, books, bicycles,
I try to buy the highest quality that I can afford, so that I don't have to keep replacing an item.
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Don't these cancel eachother out? (Don't know why the **** the quote box isn't working?)

And what I do to save the enviornment:

Take only two, extremely hot showers a day, as opposed to four, lukewarm showers.

I kill cows whenever I get the chance, their farts are building up in our atmosphere. Michelle's are too. But she can live. (For now.)

I eat meat, to give the vegitables they eat in their wild habitat a chance to grow and produce oxygen to balance out the cow and Michelle farts.

I only run the air conditioner during the afternoon.

I only run the heater when its below 76.

I do all my dishes and laundry between 3 and 6 PM.

[suzyvermoesen]

We have also been composting our fruit and vegetable for the past 7 years, ever since we moved to a place with a garden.

My husband quit smoking 5 years ago so now we kan keep the windows closed during wintertime, which saves on heating.

when preparing dishes like stewed meat casseroles, i prepare large quantities and freeze them in individual portions. Saves on energy and in the long run saves me time too.

[sasja]

Vegetarian, and raising my sons that way, we recycle practically everything, we avoid the car as much as possible and walk and bike.

And you know what else? In general I think I am very tolerant and non-judgmental, and live-and-let-live, and kind, and I am trying to spread that around and certainly impart it on the boys. That way I figure in the future we do our share to save on war-industry waste.

[Chrislit18]

In our house we:
-use energy efficiant light bulbs
-dont use the AC in the summer unless it is over like 80* in the house
-in the winter, cover up rather than putting the heat on
-buy in large quanties, and as someone has said, my mom cooks in a large quanity, and we re heat things
-keep electronics off unless they are being used [except the computer is always on]

-I recycle at school, but not at home, and urge everyone else at school to do the same
-use hand sanitizer instead of water if i only want to get the dirty feeling off of my hands
-take shorter showers
-buy clothes at the SA at times [ok, I love second hand clothes, you get the same brands for cheaper, and you can get more of it, you just have to look]
-refuse to waste paper at school, i write notes on homework papers, and etc.
-i flip out when people only print stuff on ONE side of the paper

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