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If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, it will take a little planning and determination — as with most things in life.

But it’s a new year, so why not set a few eco-friendly goals?

Here are some ideas to get you started:

1. Recharge your batteries.

While you are used to charging laptops, cell phones and toothbrushes, why not use rechargeable batteries for all your gadgets?

2. Eat in restaurants that don’t use Styrofoam.

Styrofoam doesn’t decompose, and while some companies recycle it, they are rare in Ohio. Don’t overcrowd already crowded landfills. Bring your own takeout box and silverware to fast food restaurants and casual diners.

3. Switch off, turn down and unplug.

This is the simplest solution, yet can seem so difficult. Just visualize money being burnt every minute you leave the lights — or water — on.

4. Organize your errands.

Save time and gas by grouping all your errands into one day and using an online map to plan your route. Why waste money zig-zagging all over town?

5. Leave your car at home.

Walk, carpool, bike or take public transportation weekly, and give your car a break. Consider this a great time to socialize.

6. Use filtered water.

Why pay the same amount for a couple gallons of bottled water when you could get hundreds of gallons of city water? Buy a good filter, and take a plastic or stainless steel bottle wherever you go.

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20110131/SHEIS/110131016

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The rise of the bottled-water industry has been a cause of concern within many circles of environmentalists. Not only has this success resulted in the profiting of a few major corporations, but it also symbolizes a backward move toward more unsustainable practices by major corporations, spanning the social, economic and environmental realms.

The bottled-water industry has become very profitable in the past 10 years. Huge multinational companies currently make billions of dollars on water they simply extract from the ground. These include Aquafina (Pepsi), Dasani (Coke), Perrier (Nestle), Evian, and Fiji Water. What do these corporations have in common? They have all succeeded in developing wildly effective marketing campaigns, which have caused many Americans to purchase water at a price of over 2,000 times what they would normally pay for tap water.

http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2011/01/27/25234/water_water_everywhere_%E2%80%A6_but_if_you_pay_for_it_bottled_there_are_further_costs

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How much do you know about the bottled water you drink? Not nearly enough, I guess? But a new data emanating from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a research and advocacy group in the USA has labeled some bottled water overseas un-drinkable, Nigeria inclusive.

In another development, a recent statistics by World Health Organisation (WHO) showed that about 4,000 children die daily from water-borne diseases for lack of pure potable water, a  result,  which averages at 166 children per hour, and three children every other  minute.

From the above statistics, it could be deduced that pure drinking water has become a scarce commodity, therefore paving way for the ravaging threat of diarrhoea, cholera and typhoid as primary killers of children and adults in Africa, particularly Nigeria.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/bottled-water-the-hidden-facts/

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