Green Options

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New Year’s resolutions are usually personal in nature and are more often than not broken promptly. Perhaps resolutions to help our environment would be easier to make and more importantly, easier to keep. The following are categorized by topic and rated for difficulty.

Save Your Energy
* Green: Replace worn out incandescent light bulbs with Compact Fluorescent Lights. CFLs use 75% less energy than conventional light bulbs and are widely available. * Greener: Install motion detecting lights and buy a water heater [...]

So you’re not the type of person to carry cloth bags to the grocery store and driving a hybrid just isn’t your cup of tea. That doesn’t mean you are unaware of the need to be more “green”. When making New Year resolutions this year, think of adding a few of these easy to accomplish “green” choices to your list.

The following list contains small ways you can make a difference without greatly impacting your life-style. In most cases, little [...]

How environmentally conscious are the sports enthusiasts in your circle? Sure they talk about eating well and staying fit, but do they think about the health of the planet and well beings of their fellow sportmen?

Every year, across the globe, millions of pairs of athletic shoes end up in landfills or are disposed of in some other way. That’s a lot of shoes going to waste that contain valuable materials that could be re-used.

Runners like many other outdoor sport enthusiasts [...]