How to Find Easy Ways to Go Green

Going green or being ecologically minded is more than just a current trend in society. It’s become more and more necessary for each of us to look at our behavior and how it may be effecting the environment. With increases in the natural levels of global warming being affected by the gases that a lot of our waste and habits emit into the air, the threat to the environment has become increasingly prevalent. Each of us has to take the time to learn how we can make some subtle changes to our habits and lifestyles to make a positive change to our environment. A little at a time, one by one, we each can find easy ways to go green for ourselves and our environment.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Local farmers market or natural-foods store
• Public transportation
• Initiative

1. Start at home. Turn off the lights when you leave a room, buy energy-saving light bulbs or take shorter showers to reduce water waste. These are things you can do every day to help the environment. Some other home-based changes are building a compost heap in your yard to make use of your food scraps. You can keep garbage out of the dumps and watch your leftovers create rich, nutrient-filled soil that you can use for your plants and lawn.

2. For your meals, buy organic products from you local farmer’s market. Local produce keeps the money in your local economy and requires a fraction of the transportation strain, meaning reduced carbon emissions, which are a large, but controllable cause of the global-warming trend.

3. When looking at going green at work, look into carpooling or using public transportation to get to the office. Telecommuting has become increasingly popular, so you can work from home and let the car stay in the driveway. That saves you money and reduces air pollution. If distance and the weather permit, you could bike to work for your health, and the environment's. With electricity, stick to the same rules you have at home by turning off lights that need not be on and shutting your computer down at the end of the day.

[azorean53]

on 1/22/2009 Check out other ways to go green at http://www.ehow.com/how_4729371_go-green.html

[RachelMoore]

on 12/15/2008 Good tips.

[1960texan]

on 11/29/2008 Great article! The little things really add up when going green.