Great green goals for the New Year
We’re at the end of 2010, and the time is right to start thinking about ways to improve in the coming year. If you’re making New Year’s resolutions, consider adding one or two green ones to the mix. Committing to a greener lifestyle holds many benefits, and the changes are as practical as they are simple.
To help you think of the most appropriate resolutions for you, I’ve come up with a list of 11 (Get it? Twenty-eleven?) environmentally responsible pledges you can make to ensure a cleaner, greener, more affordable new year:
1. Start using your reusable bags everywhere you can.
Plastic bags can take 1,000 years or more to break down, and when they do through a process called photodegradation, toxic particles contaminate water and soil.
When discarded into the ocean, marine mammals die because they mistake them for food. The reasons to eliminate plastic bags from your life are limitless. All you need to do is keep some reusable bags in your car (I keep two foldable bags in my purse at all times) and train yourself to use them every time you shop.
2. Kick the bottled water habit.
The environmental and economic evils of bottled water make this one a no-brainer. The production of a single bottle of water may require up to six times the amount of water in the bottle, and it can cost you up to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water. With more than 90 percent of all bottles heading to the landfill, there’s no better time to make 2011 your year to switch to refillable bottles, for both your pocketbook and the planet.
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