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Green Bites 1- Bite-Sized Green Tips

Use these daily tips to green-up the edges of your life. Or go whole-hog and turn your live totally green.

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Green Bites are just little tidbits of Green Info that each and everyone of us can very easily do to make a difference. By using the power of huge numbers just little changes can make a BIG difference.

Today's Green Bites include: Shopping Bag Recycling, Buying Used Books in Lieu of New, Using a Washable Cup at work and Buying an LCD TV.

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Green Bites 1- Shopping Bag Recycling


Green Bites 1: Shopping Bags

You know all of those plastic bags you get from Walmart, Target, Kroger, IGA and on and on?

Rather than putting them in the trash and filling our landfills with plastic, give them a new life and use them for trash bags.

Optain bag-sized waste-baskets, like Longenberger has for trash and you can put these bags to good use.

Also use these plastic bags to store your recycles like pop cans, water bottles and other glass and plastic recyclables.

Green Bites 1 Fact:
When we reuse 10 tons of plastic bags, that is the equivilant to 110 barrels of oil that is saved.

Green Bites 1: Buy Used Books or Go to the Library

Rather than buying new books from the bookstore, take a trip to the used book store and see if you can pickup some selections there. You save the paper and a bunch of money.

I go to the used bookstore and buy 8 to 10 selections at a time because I love to read so much. I can usually pick them up for 75% off.

When I'm through with them I drop them off at the local library so we are being doubly green.

No books in landfil for us!

Green Bites 1 Fact:
About 3 to 400,000 trees are chopped down each year to supply paper mills with enough pulp to make the new books..

Green Bites 1: Use a Ceramic or Glass Coffee Mug:

Keep a ceramic or a glass coffee mug at work for your coffee or tea drinking activities. It can easly be rinced or washed out after every use.

This saves the landfill from those nasty styrofoam cups or the need to recycle paper cups.

An added bonus is that you coffee stays hotter in these cups and in my opinion it's better tasting.

Here is a great list of Ceramic Coffee Mugs:

Coffee Mugs

Green Bites 1- Use a Ceramic Coffe Cup

Green Bites 1: Buying a New TV?

Are you considering buying a new TV? If you are consider going with an LCD over a Plasma.

LCD has much less power consumption than a compribally sized Plasma. The picture quality is quite comprible to Plasma too.

Here are some LCD TV's to Consider:

    LG 32LH30 32-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV, Gloss Black
    Panasonic VIERA C12 Series 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
    Sony Bravia L-Series KDL-32L5000 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV, Black

Green Bites 1 Fact:
The amount of power saved by (1) 32" LCD TV would be approximately 270 kilowatt hours or $25.00/ year.

LCD TVs

Green Bites 1- Buy an LCD Television Set



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