Want to shrink your carbon footprint this holiday season? Affordable carbon offsets can help. Here’s how, courtesy of TerraPass, our sponsors for this post. Unless you’re walking or bicycling to your holiday destination, you’ll be using some form of transportation that burns a fossil fuel. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, […]
7.5kviewsHere in Washington, D.C., we’re having what’s called a “code orange day” — and that’s not good. According to Clean Air Partners, a non-profit organization that helps cities and communities in Washington and Baltimore raise awareness about air pollution so they can reduce it, code orange means that the air I’m breathing outside is, well, […]
Are you one of those people who say, “I’d love to go green, but it costs too much money!”? On Earth Day, all of us here are sharing our stories so you know that just the opposite is true! My own experience is that going green actually saves me several thousand dollars a year while […]
Team ENERGY STAR is on a simple but extremely important mission: encourage kids and families to save energy at home. How? By empowering them to protect the climate and reduce air pollution through easy-to-implement, money-saving actions. Team ENERGY STAR works in large part because it makes saving energy easy and fun. Check out www.energystar.gov/team and you’ll see what I […]
What environmental lifestyle shifts are you planning for 2011? If you still haven’t been able to make up your mind, take a minute to read about the folks below. In the last couple of weeks in December 2010, they all answered the question, “What’s Been Your Biggest, Coolest, Eco-Friendliest Change This Year?” Some people switched to […]
Here are nine smart ways you can keep cool during the summer’s heat waves that will save you energy and money, too. 1) Cool your home to 78 or 80 degrees, then use fans. The hotter it gets outside, the colder you probably want it inside. Resist the urge to turn your home into an igloo […]
What should you NOT do on Earth Day? You’ve probably already received hundreds of tips on what you should do – and maybe they’re now a big mish-mash in your brain. Here are ten things you SHOULDN’T do. So don’t. 1) Don’t drive like a teenager, speeding up and slowing down and weaving in and […]
