Going Green for Less
Environmentally safe products often come with premium prices, but an article on Kiplinger.com offered several ideas for doing right by the environment without doing wrong by your wallet. Assuming you're now using compact fluorescent light bulbs (you are using CFLs, aren't you?), here are a few other ideas. Buy produce from local farmers . If more people did that it would reduce the need for produce to be shipped across the country, and that would mean less fuel use and less pollution. Also, replace standard 4.5 gallons-per-minute showerheads with those that use 2.5 GPM . Making the switch can save up to 20,000 gallons of water per year.
Matt's View
One other idea is to replace car trips with walking or bike riding. I read recently that Americans use cars for 82 percent of their trips. By comparison, Germans use cars for just 48 percent of their trips. Could you replace at least one car trip per week--perhaps to the library or the grocery store? If we all did so we'd save money, ease the strain on the environment, and get in better shape.
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Managing Money by The Book
- "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock." - Matthew 7:24-25
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