Yes, You Can

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 at 1:20 am

I have great news for you!

You CAN improve the condition of this land without having to stop using all your modern conveniences!

Just follow the example of two major eco activists: Robert Redford and Sheryl Crow. Just do the following…

Here is my ECO CHALLENGE .

It is super super easy…

1-RETURN THE LAUNDRY HANGARS – 3.5 billion hangers will go to the landfill each year

2 - TIGHTEN THE CAP TO THE GASOLINE TANK – up to 3 times, remember? 147 million gallons of gasoline per year, literally evaporate, going into the atmosphere.

3 – LEAVE SOLID SOAP AT THE SINK – there is already TOO MUCH plastic garbage accumulated in landfills.

4 – BE A VEGETARIAN AT LEAST ONE DAY A WEEK. – Vamu la gauchos!

5 – USE ECOSEARCH.ORG – since 2007, ECOSEARCH.ORG donates your clicks to ecological groups. One of the groups is RAINFORCE ALLIANCE, which fights against the devastation of forests and TREE PEOPLE, also for the same cause.

It is easy, easy, easy. I’m counting on you.

6 – SUBMIT YOUR TAXES ELECTRONICALLY – if each tax payer in America did so nearly 80,000 trees would be spared (source: IRS).

7 – DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES – or return them to the manufacturer for recycling. Visit http://www.mygreeneletronics.com, enter your Zip Code to find the place closest to you on http://www.digitaltips.org/green/donate-electronics.asp. Here you can recycle all types of electronics that you have at home, not only phones.

8 – Purify YOUR AIR – taking home plants such as ferns, peace lilies or English ivy. If you have 15 of them, they absorb a big part of the toxins from the air in 24 hours.

9 – USE COLD WATER IN YOUR WASHING MACHINE – or at least rinse with cold water. If everyone did that here America would save 100,000 barrels of oil PER DAY! And detergents work the same way. I just use hot water to wash the dogs’ beds.

10 – MAKE A BASKET FOR RECYCLED PAPER AT HOME OR THE OFFICE. – 1 ton of recycled paper, saves 7,000 gallons of water and 17 trees.

11 – USE YOUR ELECTRIC OVEN – it consumes half the energy as a regular oven and heats up your kitchen less.

12 – CHECK YOUR WATER METER – if in an hour, no one has used any water in the house, and the meter’s numbers increased, call a plumber. There is a leak somewhere and you’re wasting water and money.

13 – PUT THE YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN IN SLEEP MODE – After 5 minutes without use. Why? Because you consume 90% less energy than an animated screen, which requires as much energy as if you were constantly using it.

Remember my eco activist friends:

You and I are in position now to determine, perhaps more than ever, at any time in history, the trajectory of the next 40 years this Earth Day.

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