Going Green | Green Tip of The Week: April 13, 2009

Going Green | Green Tip of the Week – April 13, 2009

Save time, save money, and stay organized with this weeks Green Tip of The Week.

 - “Reduce” Your Chores:

Eco-friendly Grocery List - Next time you need to make a grocery list, try this: Grab your cell phone instead of a piece of paper.  Almost everyone has a cell phone.  It seems recently the owners of cell phones and computers are younger than ever.  You may have seen the PC ads on TV – “I am 8 years old and I’m a PC”.
Most cell phones offer you the ability to make notes.  If your not sure that your phone has this feature, just ask your tween. The green thing to do; put the grocery list on your cell phone.  This reduces the amount of paper you use.  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Let Someone Else Pay Your Bills – Most banks, even very small ones, offer online banking; take advantage of it. They are easy to use and eco-friendly.  Just sign in, tell them who you want to pay and how much, and they do the rest.

Email Me – Millions of people keep in touch with frineds via email, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more – very green! Why not do business the same? Many companies will happily send you paperless bills, invoices, advertisements, and other communications via email.  To avoid clutter, set up a seperate email account for this purpose; I check mine three times a week and clean out the junk.

Green Finances - Are you still tracking your income and expences in a ledger (made of recycled productS)?  Use the computer.  There are many green options: use a spreadsheet program, try  commercial bookkeeping software, some banks offer an online program, and more.

Paint Your File Cabinet Green - We all have stuff in files that we probably do not need.  Go through your personal files and recycle what you don’t need.  Another green strategy is to scan documents to be stored digitaly and recycle the originals.

Eco-Clean - Try eco-friendly cleaning products.  Here are some examples:

Or, if you are feeling ambitious (or want a summer science project to do with your kids), try making your own with this recipe from grouprecipes.com:

 Ingredients:

Directions:

Reduce – Reuse – Recycle

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