How can I "go green"?

Question

How can I "go green"?

Answer 1

Become a Martian.

Answer 2

These are all great answers,may I also suggest making your own household cleaner?I use baking soda and juice from a citrus fruit(lemon,lime,grapefruit,orange.)It should form a thin paste.This can be used on all surfaces of your home.

Answer 3

Those are all great things to help someone go green.  

One thing I never thought of was our cleaning products.  Windex, Fantastic, Tilex, Pine Sol, all these things are not healthy for our earth.  All the garbage that is made because of all these bottles. All the greenhouse gases that are saved from using a highly concentrated formula. I changed to Shaklee.  They have everything you need there.  I'm also a member because I believe in this.  If you would like to have more info get in touch.

Answer 4

1. recycle when ever possible (find out thru your community how they are dealing with it)

2. Big one but hard for some: don't feel the need to by ever single electronic device that comes out.

3. Another hard one: be happy with the electronic/plastic made items you have.

4. Cell phones: you don't always need to get the latest model and when you do donate your old one, it can be re-use, just remove the sim card with your personal information.

5. ipods: I love the new smaller ones but still am using my original classic idpod and yeah it's bigger and heavier but what the heck?!! it works

6. don't be so fast to print out every time you use your computer do a preview and maybe you only need three of the five pages you were about to receive

7. drive the speed limit, walk when possible

8. look into your surrounding community to see what kind of clean projects you can volunteer for

9. don't litter, I can't believe how many people I see just chucking things on the ground!

This is just the tip of the ice berg, but it should give you a good start and GOOD FOR You for caring :)

Alot of this info you can find with your search engine

Answer 5

-Use Freecycle, people give away things so you can find something you might be interested in on there, or you can give stuff away.  I gave a ton of stuff away on it recently.

-Cloth/reusable bags for shopping instead of plastic.

-Shop organic, fair trade.

-Recycle, compost.

-Turn off lights and appliances not in use, unplug them as well if you can.

Answer 6

Well I personally try to go green by unplugging appliances, whenever I'm not using them; I try not to keep the water running longer than necessary when, brushing my teeth and taking a shower, I fill the dishwasher to capacity before washing the dishes. I've purchased green bags for shopping to try and cut down on the use of plastic from the stores and have replaced light bulbs with energy smart bulbs. I try not to use light during the day but depend more on sunlight and use lights only at night. I'm sure there are more ways but, these are a start.