We are not crunchy or even granola, soggy granola at best, but we are doing our best at being "green." In fact, we were making efforts even before being green was the new catch phrase. We've been recycling for at least 7 years (when we moved into the house) and are mindful of other things we do. We don't totally buy into the global warming scare or media hipe about the polar ice caps melting, but we instead believe that one of the instructions given to us as Christians is to take care of the earth. So, here are 13 things we do to do our part in being "green."
1. We blue bag it! Our city provides blue bags which we can put
on the curb to be picked up each week.
2. We recycle #1 and #2 plastics, clear glass, metal and aluminum cans.
3. Kevin brings home his aluminum can from lunch each day to put in our recyling.
4. We teach Samuel about recycling. He now ask if it goes in the trash or recycling before he throws something away.
5. We recycle at my office.
6. We tear down and place cardboard boxes at the curb for recycling.
7. We turn off the water when we brush our teeth.
8. I only run the dishwasher when it is full on top and bottom.
9. I adjust the water level for the washing machine to the appropriate amount of water for that load.
10. We turn off the lights when we leave a room and everything in our house is turned off when we leave.
11. We unplug unused things like the cell phone charger, coffee pot and other appliances.
12. We keep our heat in the winter set on around 68 and the air in the summer set on 76-77 and we use our ceiling fans to circulate the air.
13. We've started buying rechargeable batteries for as many things as we can, especially things that go through lots of batteries.
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