Avoid Plastic Water Bottles
If the water is safe to drink in your community, don’t use bottled water. First, you avoid plastic bottles. Second, you avoid the appalling practice of paying private companies for a public resource: water.
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Archive for February, 2009
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged avoid plastic, tap water, water bottles on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged drive less agressively, lower gas mileage on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Drive Less Agressively
Aggressive driving—rapid acceleration and braking—can lower gas mileage by as much as 33 percent on the highway and 5 percent in town. Aggressive drivers are using an extra 125 gallons of gas and spending over $250 more than average drivers each year.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged styrofoam on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Avoid Styrofoam
Styrofoam is not biodegradable, which means it’s here forever. Next time, get your coffee to go in a reusable coffee mug or thermos. Skip the fast food, and use glass and metal storage containers whenever possible.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged fresh foods on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Buy fresh foods instead of frozen
Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.
Meeting Recap
Posted in Earth Day, Meeting Recaps, tagged Fayette County Earth Day 2009, Fayetteville Earth Day 2009 on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Green Advisory Team met last night in Fayetteville. The group discussed the Earth Day Celebration and had a teleconference with a representative of ICLEI. The following is a brief recap.
ICLEI Update
As Doug reported to everyone, we are almost finished with our collection of raw data for this project. Missy at ICLEI was gracious enough [...]
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged pay bills online, reduce fuel, reduce waste, save trees on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pay Bills Online
Start paying your bills online to help reduce the amount of fuel needed to ship mail and save trees. According to a recent TIME magazine article, if every American household paid bills online, it would reduce solid waste by 1.6 billion pounds and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2.1 million tons each year.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged freecycle, recycle, reuse on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Freecycle
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,684 groups with 6,476,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local [...]
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged baking soda, borax, organic cleaning, vinegar on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cleaning
Consider organic cleaning products like vinegar, borax, and baking soda.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged grocery bags, paper bags, plastic bags on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Groceries
Bring your own bags to the grocery store. Given a choice between plastic and paper, opt for paper.
ICLEI Data
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yay and heaps of thanks for Debbie Barry (who works for the county) and to Kathy Phillips and Mike (who work for the town) for helping us finish getting the info needed from the County and the Town for ICLEI. Kudos ladies, you’ve worked very hard and we appreciate it!
We also appreciate Matt Wender and [...]
