The Green Tip of the Week is presented by John Henry Hanson and Alexander Sheeline.
Green Tip of the Week # 1
The Green Tip for this week consists of simple advice. You can do several things around East Woods and at home that will make a difference. Instead of throwing out papers in the garbage, put them in recycling bins. You can also recycle cans and plastic drink bottles in the blue bins around school, and in your recycling bins at home. Remember that you can also contribute to the East Woods recycling program every Wednesday. We meet at 7:30 in the lunch room to help collect recycled papers and plastic bottles.
Green Tip of the Week # 2
Remember to turn off the lights and any electrical appliances that you do not use when you leave the room. This will save money for your family, your school, and it will help the environment. Go Green!
Green Tip of the Week # 3
Using a traditional bar soap will cut down on your household consumption of plastic waste. Liquid soap comes in elaborate bottles with a lid pump or cap that you have to unscrew while gallons of water run down the drain. Also if you let your bar soap dry for few weeks before using it, it will last longer.
Green Tip of the Week # 4
When you go to bed at night you may usually leave your laptops and computers on and your phones charging. This wastes power when it is not needed and can ruin your phone battery. Even when your battery is fully charged it will still draw a lot of electricity from the outlet. Too much charging will ruin your battery. If you turn off your computers full you will not draw power, and you will save your laptop’s battery.
Green Tip of the Week # 5
The shower is one of the biggest consumers of water and energy in your home. While proper hygiene is important, try to spend less time in the shower. If you were to spend less time, you would waste less water. In addition, try to keep the temperature moderate and not hot. It takes more energy to heat water to higher temperatures.
Green Tip of the Week # 6
Instead ofincreasing your energy consumption via home and gym exercise machines,take advantage of hiking and biking trails in your area. When you use exercise machines at home it uses up energy and therefore affects the environment.
Green Tip of the Week # 7
Based on EPA estimates, Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. Most of them are thrown away.The tap water in New York State is one of the cleanest in the country. Instead of buying hundreds of dollars of bottled water every year, you can use water bottles or reusable canteens and fill them with tap or filtered water. This will reduce the amount of plastic you are sending to the recycling plants. If you do drink a bottle of water, please recycle
Green Tip of the Week # 8
Incandescent light bulbs or “normal light bulbs” are inefficient. Most of the power used to light the bulb produces heat. The small wire inside the bulb will glow from the large amount of heat in the bulb. Using newfluorescent bulbs will produce 60 to 100 lumens per watt of electricity while a conventional bulb will only produce 15 lumens. This saves energy and makes the room brighter.
Green Tip of the Week # 9
You can help the environment by using your own bags when you go grocery shopping. Plastic bags that are not disposed of properly can be harmful to animals in the wilderness. Next time that your parents go out shopping, remind them to bring their own bag.
Green Tip of the Week # 10
When you hang a load of laundry you cut down on your carbon footprint foot print by 4.4 pounds and the amount of electricity you use. Ninety percent of the homes in theUnited Stateshave dryers. If every household air dried once, the result would be 250,000 pounds of carbon not put into our atmosphere every year.
Green Tip of the Week # 11
Most household’s energy budgets are 50 to 70% heating and cooling. For every degree that you lower your thermostat, you will save between 1 and 3% of your heating bill. Remember to do the same thing in reverse with the air conditioning.
Green Tip of the Week # 12