Today's Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Change the setting on your printer "It is estimated that 240 million printer cartridges end up in landfills every year.  You can extend the life of your printer cartridge by printing unimportant documents in draft mode, which uses less ink.  Read the owner's manual for your printer to find out how to print … [Read more...]

Today's Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Skip the towel service at the gym "If just 1% of fitness club members stopped using towels provided at the gym and instead brought their own, it would save 4,000 loads of laundry- the equivalent of 36 million gallons of water a day! Conserve additional resources by using your towel more than once, washing … [Read more...]

Today's Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Buy your dog a leash made of canvas or hemp. "Most dog leashes are made of nylon.  Nitrous Oxide, a greenhouse gas associated with global warming, is emitted during the production of nylon. Replacing all of the nylon pet leashes in the United States would prevent the release of the same amount of … [Read more...]

Today's Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Recycle your telephone books "Currently, telephone books account for 10 percent of all the waste in the landfills.  There is an even more eco-friendly option:  call your local phone company and ask to stop phone book delivery.  You can look up phone numbers online instead" Our phone books never even make … [Read more...]