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Green Tips
Helpsave energy, water, soil, and air quality
one step at a time.
See www.thedailygreen.com for news, tips,
food, and weather
Send your suggestions for Green Tips to
Marilyn Stewart at mstew33939@aol.com
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Green Tip: Eat Local
On average each item in your local
supermarket has traveled at least 1000
miles to get to you. Buying locally produced
food reduces the amount of energy used for
transportation.
See www. florida-agriculture.com, click on
“info for customers”, then “Florida Crops,
Seasonal Availability”
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Green Tip: Bring Your Own Bottle
Skip the
paper and styrofoam cups and
disposable water bottles. They use energy
to produce and most go directly into landfills.
Find a washable water bottle and fill it
from the tap.
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Green Tip: Kill Your Phantoms
Those little green lights are stealing energy,
keeping your TV, stereo, cell phone charger,
and computer on standby. Unplug and save
up to 10% of your home’s energy-related
emissions.
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Green Tip: Plant a (Native) Tree
Trees absorb CO2. Native tropical trees
have deep roots which draw water into the
air, and help create clouds that reflect
sunlight back into space.
Good choices: live oaks, cypress, tulip
poplar, red buckeye, sabal palmetto
Find local native plant nurseries and
plant lists at www.afnn.org
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Green Tip: Send Your PC Packing
Your friendly laptop is about five times more
energy-expensive to make than a car or
fridge. Computers and cell phones contain
hazardous chemicals and precious metals.
Upgrade instead of replacing
Give to a friend or charity
Recycle thru manufacturer or county
Call 1-800-GOTJUNK
or www.1800gotjunk.com
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Green Tip: Green Your Wardrobe
Green: organic cotton, hemp, bamboo,
thrift shops
Not: leather (treated with tannic acid,
formaldehyde and other preservatives),
dry cleaning (uses cancer-causing
chemicals)
Find sources at www.coopamerica.org
and www.sprig.com
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Green Tip: Paper or Plastic?
Paper Plastic
Consumes/ton 17 trees 11 barrels oil
Recycled 20% 1%
Decomp time 5-1000 years 5-1000 years
Air pollution 5.75 lb/bag 1.2 lb/bag
Energy used Much more Much less
Hazards Water pollution Animal deaths
*Best: Bring Your Own Bag
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Green Tip: Eat Your Veggies
One pound of meat requires 8 times as
much energy to produce as one pound of
veggie protein such as tofu. One 12-oz
steak has a 940 calorie return on an
investment of 32,900 calories.
Veggie protein sources: tofu, chick peas,
rice and beans, corn and beans, peas
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Green Tip: Go Carbon Neutral
After cutting all you can (and for those who
can’t avoid jet travel), the next best thing is
contributing to projects that remove CO2,
such as tree nurseries and methane fuel
farms
www.carbonfund.org
www.climatetrust.org
www.nativeenergy.com
www.sustainabletravelinternational.org
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Green Tip: Change a Light Bulb
Early fluorescent
lights made you look like
the walking dead. Now it’s easy to find CFLs
that produce a warm, natural glow. They last
10 times longer and use 75% less energy
than incandescents.
Look for the Energy Star
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Green Tip: Green Your Ride
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Green Tip: Green Your Home
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Green Tip: Pick Your Power
Solar Wind Biomass Gas Nuclear
Potential 16% of 100% Also Cleanest Could
world by global makes fuel fossil fuel replace
2040 demand fossil fuel
CO2 C free in 3- C free in Neutral Half as None
emissions 4 years < 1 year much as
coal
Problems Working Eye-sores, Competes Non- Mining,
on costs, bird flight with other renewable Leaks,
Sun part- paths crops Terrorism,
time Waste
longevity
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Green Tip: Do the Worm
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Green Tip: Catch the Rain
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Green Tip: Choose Your Fuel
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