When you are picking up food, going to the bank or even filling a prescription, park your vehicle and walk inside instead of using the drive through (aka drive thru). Every time you use a drive through, you burn about 18 cents worth of gas idling your car. According to Quick Service Restaurant Magazine, the [...]

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When you ship something, don’t use petroleum-based bubble wrap or, even worse, foam peanuts. Both materials end up in the landfills after they’re discarded. Bubble wrap takes hundreds of years to break down, and foam peanuts never completely break down. Fortunately, you have a few earth-freindly options. Instead of throwing away old sheets of paper, [...]

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Don’t waste energy and money to cool your house when you can keep the heat out with a simple device: such as an awning. Awnings reduce the amount of sunlight that gets through the glass doors and windows. This reduction in solar heat gain keeps your home’s interior much cooler on very hot days-by as [...]

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If your driveway needs replacing, consider switching to a permeable pavement. Conventional asphalt or concrete surfaces catch and funnel water-along with pesticides,oil, and other contaminants-into already overworked sewers.

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From car batteries and clothes hangers to hubcaps and washing machines, many items in the garage and around the house are made of scrap metal. When it’s time to get rid of these items, don’t add them to the nearest landflill. Remove as much of the nonmetal materials (rubber wheels,wooden handles, and so on) as [...]

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