All it takes is a tiny effort and you won’t be burning money.
Follow a few of these EZ tips and you’ll save green while going green:
1) Buy local (fruits, vegetables, and even meat) – less transportation means less gas, emissions, and waste.
2) Use fabric bags (for grocery shopping)
3) Share seeds from your garden (plants always go to seed, share seeds and sow more than a garden – you’ll sow a friendship and be harvesting the fruit for years)
4) Share garden harvests with neighbors, family and friends
5) Store leftovers in freezer bags, instead of throwing food out: even over ripe fruit. You can use the “mash” later for jam, syrup or even baked goods.
6) Start composting – even if it’s just your coffee grounds
7) Hang clothes to dry – then throw them in the drier to fluff for the last few minutes – you’ll cut drying time down by about 95%, save money and still have soft clothes, that smell fresh.
8. After you boil eggs, potatoes or any other vegetable, use the water out in the garden
9) Water your garden early in the morning – you’ll get more bang for your buck – water evaporates more in the heat of the day
10) Take a composting class, or a solar seminar – many energy companies offer them for free.
Go Green, Save Money and the Planet at the Same time. And don’t forget today’s the last day to pop back to Monday’s post to enter the “comment contest” and be entered to win an eco-friendly prize. Check it out here. –
(If you want to know the simple science behind “burning your money”, it’s just like recycling: it’s “EZ” when you know what you’re doing: It’s simply a mixture of 50% water and 50% rubbing alcohol, with a pinch of salt to add color to the flame. Just make sure you soak the dollar bill, then use tongs to hold the bill away from you when you “burn” it. Oh, and MAKE SURE you step away from any left over mixture before lighting the flame – the mixture is combustible. When you light the dollar, the alcohol will burn off quickly, and the water will keep the dollar bill from burning.)
Recycla reads a lot of eco websites and blogs every week and often saves links that she thinks will be of interest to you. As she was preparing to work on today’s post, she realized that she had far too many things she wanted you to know about and that she couldn’t decide on just one topic. So today she’s going to give you a list of links that you should check out:
Enviro Girl and her family have been fans of New Balance shoes for years. Comfortably wide, well constructed and made in America (a shout out to Boston!), they’ve never been disappointed by the brand. How lovely then to learn that New Balance is adding to its collection of outdoor shoes an “Eco-preferred collection” which will use environmentally preferred materials, constructions and manufacturing processes. This endeavor is part of a larger corporate-wide sustainability intitiatve to become more environmentally sensitive.
Alien invaders are busy smothering and swallowing up native habitats and species across the world. They don’t come from outer space, they aren’t the byproduct of some mad scientific experiment gone horribly wrong and they’re not the malignant work of an evil government. They’re displaced plants, animals, bugs, birds and fish that when put into new environments thrive with ample resources and no natural predators. They compete with native species for food an other resources without any control for their growth like predators or disease. They breed and reproduce unchecked. Invasive species have single-handedly destroyed the natural order of habitats from the Great Lakes to prairies to ocean shores to forests.
How EZ it is to “fix” raw food. Check out a couple of recipes 
THIS BIRTHDAY IS IN THE BAG
Do you use an electric can opener? Really? Why? Because unless you have arthritis or some other dexterity issue, there’s really no reason. Manual can openers require more resources to make and then use more throughout their lifetimes. For more info, 
