Well You – Well World. Conscious Health for Our World & Wellness
Don’t Rinse – Dry wash your dishes, then rinse them to get toxic/cancerous detergent off. You don’t need to use two sinks full of water, plus the energy you save not heating the water.
Don’t Pre Heat the Oven – Unless a very special dish. Look through the oven door to instead of opening and letting heat out.
Recycle Everything You Can – Glass, Paper, plastic, mobile phones, clothes, coat hangers, aluminum, computers – Give what you can to Charity
Hang Dry – Get a clothesline or rack to dry your clothes by the air. Your wardrobe will maintain color and fit, and you’ll save money.
Go Vegan and or Vegetarian Once or Twice a Week (or more..) – One less meat-based meal a week helps the planet and your diet. For example: It requires 2500 gallon of water to produce .45kg of beef. You will also save some trees. For each hamburger that originated from animals raised on rainforest land, approximately 55 square feet of forest have been destroyed.
Use Cold Water When Washing
Use One Less Napkin
Use Both Sides of Paper
Re-Use Wrapping Paper
Re-Think Bottled Water – buy a glass bottle and fill it with tap or filtered water. You will save money not to mention the cancerous toxins released from plastic bottles. Plus taking thousands of years to decompose.
Turn Your Tap Off While Brushing Your Teeth
Shower With Your Partner More Often
Take Shorter Showers
Plant A Tree
Second Hand Does Not Mean Second Best – Consider buying items from a second-hand store. Toys, bicycles, roller blades, and other age and size-specific items are quickly outgrown. Second hand stores often sell these items in excellent condition since they are used for such a short period of time, and will generally buy them back when you no longer need them.
Adjust Your Thermostat – Adjust your thermostat one degree higher in the summer and one degree cooler in the winter. Each degree Celsius less will save about 10% on your energy use! In addition, invest in a programmable thermostat which allows you to regulate temperature based on the times you are at home or away.
Refill What You Can – You will be surprised to how much you pay for packaging and you cut down your plastic consumption.
Grow it Yourself – you will be delighted to all the things you can do. I just love my organic veggies growing in my garden for my belly guts.
Make a Day Of It – Feel like you spend your whole week trying to catch up with the errands? Take a few moments once a week to make a list of all the errands that need to get done, and see if you can batch them into one trip. Not only will you be saving fuel, but you might find yourself with much better time-management skills.
Turn the Light OFF and use energy saving bulbs
Maintain Your Vehicle – Not only are you extending the life of your vehicle, but you are creating less pollution and saving fuel. A properly maintained vehicle, clean air filters, and inflated tires can greatly improve your vehicle’s performance. And it might not hurt to clean out the trunk—all that extra weight could be costing you at the pump.
See If You Can Work From Home – See if you can work out an arrangement with your employer that you work from home for some portion of the week. You will you save money and fuel.
Cut Down on Junk Mail
Choose Matches Not Lighters – Most lighters are made out of plastic and filled with butane fuel, both petroleum products. Since most lighters are considered “disposable,” over 1.5 billion end up in landfills each year. When choosing matches, pick cardboard over wood. Wood matches come from trees, whereas most cardboard matches are made from recycled paper.
Go Online – Consider if you really need a paper phone book. If not, call to stop phone book delivery and use an online directory instead. Some estimate that telephone books make up almost ten percent of waste at dump sites. And if you still receive the book, don’t forget to recycle your old volumes.
Wash Your Car on the Lawn or Car Wash –Professional car washes are often more efficient with water consumption.
Take your Own Bags to Do the Shopping
Use Containers instead of Cling Wrap or Alfoil
Walk or Ride when You Can & Really Don’t Need To Drive
Fight for Human/Animal Rights Fight for the Discriminated/Unfortunate
Don’t Drop your Litter – Even pick up litter when you see it, the world will smile.
Buy Local
Make a Compost Pile
SHARE – Pass on what you know and learn.