What can we change?

Diana Lingytė, 2010, IBTS

Table of contents:

• Ways to Use Less Water

• Conserve Energy

• Reduce Toxicity

• IN YARD

• IN OFFICE

• Ways To Protect Our Air

• Create Less Trash

Ways to Use Less Water

Don't wash dishes with

the water running

continuously

Wash and dry only full loads of laundry and dishes

Check and fix

any water leaks

Conserve Energy Turn off

unneeded lights even

when leaving a room for a short time

When using an oven, minimize door opening

while it is in use;

it reduces oven temperature by 25 to 30 every

time you open the door

Unplug seldom used appliances

Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy

Connect your outdoor

lights to a timer

Review labels of

household cleaners you

use. Consider

alternatives like baking

soda, scouring pads,

waterwater or a little more

elbow grease

elbow grease

Use traps instead of rat and mouse poisons and

insect killers

Reduce Toxicity

Use recycled wood chips as mulch to

keep weeds down, retain moisture and

prevent erosion

Put leaves and grass in a compost heap instead of burning them or throwing

them away

Avoid using leaf

blowers and other

dust-producing

equipment

IN YARD

Copy and print on both sides

of paper

Use e-mail instead of paper correspondence

instead of

Use discarded paper for scrap paper

IN OFFICEUse a ceramic coffee mug

a disposable cup

Don't use your wood stove or fireplace when

air quality is poor

Avoid slow-burning, smoldering fires. They

produce the largest amount of pollution

Burn seasoned wood - it burns cleaner than

green wood

Use solar power for home and water heating

Ways To Protect Our AirWays To Protect Our Air

Use cloth napkins

Reuse items like bags and

containers when possible

Shop with a canvas bag instead of using

paper and plastic bags

Create Less Trash

instead of

paper ones

I hope you were interested

Do not forget! 

We are guests on this earth! Think about what you are doing as a guest.