Are You Green Enough

Are you green enough to make a difference. I am probably not. I recycle and try to bring back all my aluminum cans. I feel like I should do so much more. God gave us a job and that is to take care of his creation. It is very important to be “Green”. So I looked up some ways to be friendlier to the earth. Even if you do one of these things you are making a difference.

1.Drive less: When you run your errands do them all at once and try buy more and store up. For example in stead of buying one package of toilet paper buy two, or instead of buying 1 pound of hamburger buy 2 or 3. Buy two weeks of groceries instead of one. It saves you time and money by driving less. Just plan ahead.

2.Turn off your computer: Make sure that your computer at home and at work are turned off when you are done with it.

3.Buy Safe cleaning Supplies: Green works makes good cleaning supplies and are probably cheaper than what you use. Another good way to clean is with ¼ cup of distilled vinegar with a cup of water and a few drops of olive oil.

4.Turn off the lights: I know there are those people who are seriously anal about turning off the lights. This one is so easy turn the lights off your not using. I know I can do this and considering that electricity uses 1.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, turning off the switch is a good start.

5.Take your own bag: Those plastic bags. They take so much carbon to make and they fill out land fills. Please get a reusable bag and use it for groceries and shopping at the mall.

6.Buy recycled products: In this day and age we mostly all recycle. The thing we need to make sure we do is buy the material that is recycled.

7.Reuse: Water bottles, Plastic bags, Paper bags, these are the things that I can think of comment if you can think of more.

There are so many things that you can reuse, recycle and use less of. Make sure you are doing something. My family thinks it is important. If God gave you a job isn’t that what we should be focusing on. We think that the businesses can do the most but if we do these things our carbon footprint will be less and doesn’t that feel good.