Do just one thing now to make your life greener. Turn down your thermostat, buy more local, time your showers, or put a brick in your toilet tank-anything to make this a better planet. I want to point out that we can’t save the planet through recycling and changing our light bulbs. We need to be thinking bigger and demanding more-from our local grocery to our federal government. Does that mean that we shouldn’t buy compact fluorescent bulbs or shut the light off when we leave the room? Not at all. It means that we have to do that and so much more. Maybe you aren’t the type to write letters to your senator or march in protest. That’s okay; there is still a big impact that you can have on a daily basis. We can easily vote with our dollars. Make a stand on one item and get your friends to stand with you.
I only buy toilet tissue made from recycled paper. If there were ever a place that it makes sense to use a recycled product, this is it! Talk to everyone about how you are making this choice. Sooner or later, when everyone is buying recycled TP, it will be in every store and get cheaper and cheaper. Everybody needs to buy toilet tissue, so make a stand-and if your store doesn’t carry it, just ask them too.
Use reusable bags at supermarkets and give them as gifts. Keep them in the trunk of your car and if you forget to take them into the store, take the groceries out without them and bag them in the trunk. Shop at the store that makes it easy to reuse bags and tell them so.
Until we show the people who provide us with our goods and services that we will put our money where our mouths are, they won’t change their ways. Detroit hasn’t done a thing about hybrid technology until Toyota started selling the Prius like bottled water. Suddenly, every automaker has a hybrid. Had we made this demand a few years earlier, perhaps we wouldn’t be talking bailout of the auto industry.
Being green in your daily life takes a little work, but if you are reading this you already have the interest. The more you work, the more companies will work with you to bring you better products-and make it easier.
The important thing is to start NOW and do just one thing.
Tags: Go Green, recycling, shopping bags
