Earth Day Should Be Every Day
By Stephanie at Psychic Source

2nd July, 2010 - Posted by StephaniecloseAuthor: Stephanie Name: Stephanie
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As the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf rages on, it got me thinking about how we treat our planet and what we can do as citizens to make a difference.  Earth Day is celebrated every year in April, but why do we wait for that one day to honor our Earth?  Everyday should be Earth Day! 

Being environmentally friendly is easy when you follow some very simple guidelines for greener living.   Here are a few tips that will help you save money, keep your household happy, and lighten the load on the environment.

• Do not leave faucets dripping; always close them tightly after use. (One drop wasted per second wastes 10,000 liters of water per year.)
• Use environmentally friendly cleaning products whenever possible.   Here are a few sites that offer recipes for homemade cleaning products: EHow.com  and EarthEasy.com both provide resources for Home Made Cleaning Products.
• Use low energy light bulbs, which last up to eight times longer than ordinary light bulbs and can also reduce energy costs.
• Position furniture in your home to make best use of natural light.
• Rather than use bottled water, purchase a water filter pitcher, such as one offered by Brita, or put a filter system on your tap.   The savings will astound you!  I haven’t purchased cases of bottled water in over a year!  Financially, I am saving about $30/month.  Gone are my days of contributing hundreds of plastic bottles to trash heaps.
• Ditch those plastic store bags and purchase a few sturdy canvas bags that can be used for just about everything – including toting your groceries around.
• Reuse items such as plastic bags, jars and brown grocery bags.  I save Ziploc bags that I used to store items such as fruit or bread or crackers, etc.  I wash them with soap and hot water, and let them dry.  I keep them separate from the new bags, and use them for storing other items such as office supplies, nails and screws and other non-food related goods.  Same goes for spaghetti sauce or jelly jars – you’d be amazed at what you can do with these items!
• Switch off lights & machines when not in use.  The same can be said for items plugged in.  Do you keep your cell phone charger in the wall?  How about the toaster?  Are these items plugged in 24/7?  You would be surprised to learn that they are still using energy even if they are not in use.
• This is the easiest of all…when you are not in a room, turn off the lights.  I realized that when I am home at night, I turn on just about every light in the house!   I became really conscious of this over the past year.  Now it is a habit – the lights go off when I leave the room.

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