july
get your walk on.
Walking is said to be the absolute best exercise of all time. You can stop to smell the roses, feel more connected to your neighborhood or just spy on your neighbors. It costs less than a bike or a bus pass. and is harmless to the planet. Show up to work with ……
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full of sheet.
An average top-loading washing machine uses 50 gallons of water per load, and 933 kWh of electricity per year. Since Americans alone wash over 35 billion loads of laundry per year, the numbers are more than a little scary. Reduce your impact by running only full loads of laundry. If you don’t have ……
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nice rack.
Nothing says summer like clothes drying on the line. But if you don’t have a back yard or if the bad weather won’t dry your clothes, get an indoor drying rack. Drying racks are inexpensive and you’ll make the money back in no time by saving on the electricity consumed by your dryer. Just be ……
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no sweat.
During the summer, heat is often the enemy; it burns your skin, frizzes your hair, makes your legs stick to the car seats and makes everyone smell a little funky. Opening windows at night to bring in the cool breeze is a great cool-down option for some parts of the globe, but suggest ……
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water water, everywhere.
Usually when you think of gray water (if you haven’t thought about it, gray water is clean water used once, then re-used again for other jobs where it doesn’t need to be so squeaky clean), it means getting into the plumbing and installing a complicated water recycling system. But it doesn’t have to be so ……
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give flowers a break.
Cut flowers are kind of like crushes: they’re fun, fleeting and usually end up nowhere. While flowers are pretty, the flower industry is not. Most cut flowers are grown in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia in large greenhouses where underpaid, non-unionized workers spray them heavily with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides, ……
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size matters.
If you’re saving up for a big-screen HDTV, don’t forget to factor in the increase to your electric bill. According to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC), size does matter when talking about tv and the energy it uses. Using a two-minute clip of the same film, one 50-inch ……
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the more the merrier.
Just gotta drive? Make it a party by carpooling. Did you know that our good ol’ passenger vehicles in traffic make up a striking 40% of the pollution that contributes to the ground level ozone, most commonly known as “smog”? If there’s one thing that can make the biggest impact, it’s getting some ……
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you go grill!
Grilling seems to be the official cooking method of summer, but your oven may need to get back into the action from time to time. If you find yourself turning on your oven this summer, try isolating the kitchen by shutting doors to that part of the house. By containing the heat pumped ……
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take a drive on the shady side.
Gasoline evaporation occurs in your vehicle when the engine is hot whether it is moving or not. Obviously nothing can be done about this when the car is running but parking in the shade can significantly reduce some of the emissions and vapors the car will release while stationary. According to studies, a ……
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