Being Green Isn't Easy..

.. but it clearly makes the world cleaner and safer. This month I noticed a growing trend in articles throughout different magazine; the mention on how we as a society can do our part by being green. Although there are many bloggers out there who seem to care about doing there part and being green, I am a blogger who is going to help you become more green. By doing the following, you will increase the life span of our precious earth:

1. Think outside the box and recycle more than just your average paper, plastic, aluminum, and glass. Now adays recycling your clothing or something as simple as an ink cartrige, can help reduce CO2 emissions by tons.

2. Sign Up for online banking: If every american did this we would save over 2.3 million tons of wood each year.

3. SHOP ONLINE! yes you heard me all you hermits inside who ADORE shopping in the comfort of your jammies continue to do what you do best. Every minute you spend in the car uses 10 times the energy of doing the same of shopping online.

4. Buy local ANYTHING: if things are made local that just means there is no transportation issue that emits gases into the atmosphere.

5. Switch to green power: this doesnt mean buying a windmill and setting it up in the back. All you need to do is find an alternative energy source like solar.

6. SLOW down on the road. if we stop weaving and speeding we could improve fuel efficiency by over 30 percent.

7. Pick up something vintage: reuse and recycle my friends.

8. Skip meat once a week, this reduces the amounts of pesticides and fertilizer used to feed the animals on the grass and the grain.

9. Switch to rechargeable batteries: less batteries in the landfill baby.

10. BUY MAKE-UP YOU CAN REFILL- the packaging in the makeup world adds to endless bottles in todays landfills. Mainstream make up labels like stila, bobbi brown, and aveda all offer this beneficial option.

All tips and tricks are made possible by the April issue of Glamour.

GO GREEN!,

Eve