50 Must Have Green Living Tips
- Laptops use a quarter of the power required by a desktop computer.
- Leave your shoes at the door. Contaminants are tracked into our homes on the soles of shoes. Dr. Oz, of the Oprah Show, says we should take our shoes off at the door and leave them in a nearby basket
- Generating enough electricity to cook for an hour in a standard electric oven creates 2.7 pounds of carbon dioxide. Here’s a list of what can do it for less: toaster oven, 1.3 pounds over 50 minutes; slow cooker, 0.9 pounds over seven hours; and microwave, 0.5 pounds over 15 minutes.
- Keep your vehicle’s tires filled at the correct air pressure. If a vehicle’s tires have less than recommended air pressure, your car will burn more gas than it should.
- Wrapping a water heater with insulation can keep as many as 1,000 pounds of global-warming CO2 a year out of the upper atmosphere.
