the final installation for greening your home one room at a time.

- change all light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs. they use 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs.
- turn off the lights and appliances when you leave a room!
- switch to rechargeable batteries. one rechargeable battery can replace 300 single-use batteries
- stop smoking. as if the health benefits/warnings weren’t enough, over 11.6 million kilograms of pesticides are used each year to keep tobacco pest-free. cigarette butts have also been found in the stomachs of birds, fish, and other marine creatures who mistake them for food.
- and the ultimate: switch to green power! bullfrog power is one of many canadian companies offering 100% carbon free electricity

green cleaning:

- use old t-shirts as rags. our increasing dependence on disposable wipes, dusters, and mops is clogging our landfills
- “clean” doesn’t have to smell like pine, lemon, or orange chemicals. there are a host of companies making environmentally friendly products, like seventh generation and nature clean
- mix one part vinegar with one part warm water and you’ve got yourself a green, all-purpose cleaner.

here’re some facts, good and bad ones:

- 1% of australia’s untapped geothermal power potential could provide enough energy to last 26000 years
- the human pop has grown more in the last 50 years than it did in the previous 4 million
- at least 50 million acres of rainforest are lost every year, totalling an area the size of england, wales and scotland combined
- recycling one ton of paper save 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil, 4100 kilowatts of energy, 3.2 cubic yards of landfill, and 60 pounds of air polution
- only 1% of china’s 560 million residents breathe air that is considered safe by the european union
- oxygen-starved dead zones that cannot sustain life now cover an area roughly the size of the state of oregon
- 1 in 4 mammals is at risk of extinction
- the iraq war has cost somewhere in the nighbourhood of 3 TRILLION dollars, and that’s a conservative estimate.