1 thing 1 rinse cycle: If you're going to rinse bottles for recycling, you can reduce the water waste by transferring the rinse water from one bottle to another until the job is done.
do your part: Try the manual rinse cycle. The results will astound you.
1 thing 1 lawn: FOR THIRSTY LAWNS it's best to water your lawn or garden before 8am or after 6pm. Doing so at midday sacrifices as much as 30 percent of your water to evaporation. Avoid watering on windy days, and break your watering into short segments. Lawns absorb water better in three ten minute spells than in one half hour stretch.
Federal standards now require that new showerheads operate at 2.5 gallons per minute. According to EPA figures, replacing old showerheads (that spritzed 4.5 gallons per minute) can save a family of four about 20,000 gallons of water each year.
do you part... engage in this overhead reducing measure. go to www.gogreen.org
1 thing 1 hose SOAKED WITH SUCCESS: Soaker hoses enable you to apply irrigation water directly to the roots of your plants. Their delivery system is more efficient than sprinklers, which wastewater through evaporation, spreading the spray through the air.
do your part: Soaker hoses can reduce water waste by as much as 70 percent.
1 thing Maintaining neutrality. These days it's all but impossible to live a life free of carbon emissions. Many people and organizations are working against this reality by participating in programs where they can purchase green credits "offsetting" the pollution they create. These credits may be donated to wind farms, solar installations, and energy efficiency projects with negative carbon production.
do your part: To learn more, visit a website like www.carbonfund.org/site or www.myfootprint.org; the latter includes a quiz to help you determine your consumption "footprint" on the earth.
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1 thing 1 shower: Reducing your overhead
