Posts Tagged ‘save’
Monday, September 6th, 2010
A Way of Travel That’s Better for Everyone
For this next blog, I’d like to promote an old idea instead of suggesting a new one; one you probably come across every other day when you find yourself driving to work at 15 miles an hour behind a particular eco-friendly traveler. Yes, I’m talking about riding a bicycle. Although it seems to be growing increasingly in popularity, I still have yet to see more than one person riding their bikes on the streets at a time. Riding a bike from location to location has many more advantages than disadvantages. You save on gas money, you help prevent air pollution, you get great exercise and your conscience can rest easy because you know you’ve done so much good for yourself and others just in one trip. So I challenge you to be ambitious and choose to ride your bike when you’re heading somewhere that doesn’t require an automobile.
Written By: Jen Ebenrick
Tags: automobile, bicycle, bike, car, ride, save
Posted in Everything Environmental, TriLeaf's Eco Tips | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Use Public Transportation
I know you have most likely heard this before, but I thought I would throw some facts your way to reiterate that public transportation is a great thing, especially in these economic times. Public transportation creates jobs for every $1 billion invested, 36,000 jobs are created. And every dollar that is invested in it to create those jobs, they get $4 in return.
Even more so every $10 million in investment usually yields $30 million in increased business sales. Now that is a lot of money going around from one simple idea the idea of public transportation. So I urge to try some public transportation every once in a while. Be it that your going down the ball game and don’t want to deal with traffic, going into the city for a trip, trying to get across the river or anything in between or more you are creating jobs and economic stimulus.
So why not do your part every once in awhile.
For more facts and figure check this out.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: amtrak, bus, eco, economy, ferries, ideas, public transportation, save, stimilus, tip, trams
Posted in Everything Environmental, TriLeaf's Eco Tips | 4 Comments »
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Use Ice to Cool Down your Water
Well duh, you may be saying but with the temperature being so high lately, you will need a lot of ice to keep your beverages cool especially if you are going to be outside for a long extended period of time. As mentioned in other posts, I use to work as a lifeguard over the summer, what I did was use old bowls such as ones from butter and make ice from them for ice for my big jugs to take to work with me. Oh and word of advice if you are a pool and they have a water spout on to fill the pool while your there, those typically are very cold and are not treated water. I always refilled my water bottle at work when I ran out. I’m sure if you ask the lifeguard will let you fill your water bottle up if it is on. But be sure you ask, some places ave rules about that. I know though that I always let people get cool water I figured it’d save me from them going into heat stroke.
So when making ice or refilling grab cold water from the faucet and try to not let it run too long while your waiting for it to turn cold.
Tags: cool, down, ice, pool, save, summer
Posted in Everything Environmental, Leafy Discussions | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Try letting employees work from home.
While this is not always a feasible idea for all companies, I suggest trying to do this say even once a month for every employee. This will save them on gas, and the extra body on the roadway. Many times as well companies that have the ability to do this can spare having that person work from home giving them more office space. Think about the next small project or day you have that maybe they won’t be so busy and let them try to complete their work from home that day and see how it goes.
They and you may find that they even get more done, sometimes I feel like I accomplish more from my house maybe because I put off doing things I don’t want to do around the house.
Just an idea.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: business, eco, home, idea, office, pollute, save, work
Posted in Everything Environmental, Your Eco Office | 8 Comments »
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Wear sunscreen even on cloudy days
While this more a personal tip, I feel it fits in with the environmental tip because it is the environment that causes the skin damage and needless to say sunburns.
Sunburns don’t just happen in full sun. Let me rephrase I have been burnt really bad on cold blistery days while lifeguarding because I thought oh I don’t need sunscreen. The rays still come through and burn just as bad if not worse. I don’t know if it’s true, but I told they burn worse because they are filtering through the clouds and that somehow amplifies them. Now, don’t qoute me on that as I said not sure if it’s true. But keep sunscreen around even on those days, trust me you’ll thank me later.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: cloudly, itch, red, save, skin, sunburn, sunscreen
Posted in Everything Environmental, TriLeaf's Eco Tips | 4 Comments »
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Walk to your local ice cream or sno cone shop
With summer looming in the air, ice cream shops are opening as well as sno cone shops. Before it gets to that blazing hot point where it is so hot you don’t want to be outside walk to them. Think while your walking your burning off those extra calories you are about to put on. And as many of us know, in America we are one of the most obese countries in the world. So a little bit of exercise for that sweet reward may bejust the trick. Think about it, Jared from Subway lost his weight by walking to Subway every day to get his sandwich, while ice cream is not as healthy it is a step in the right direction to walk to your destination. And no I am not calling you fat those of you are reading this I plan on doing this myself with an Oberweis within easy walking distance, though I must say I wish it was Ted Drewe’s instead. It saves on gas, on the environment, and overall on that crazy parking lot that tends to be full especially at night. It takes you just as long to find a parking space sometimes as to get there.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: environment, ice cream, save, walk
Posted in Everything Environmental, TriLeaf's Eco Tips | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Put all of your coins into a jar and save them until you read a predisposed amount
This saves you from having to run to the bank all the time you put in that small say $20 in rolled change. At my house we save it until we hit at least $50 if not more. While the money is nice to add to your account, it seems even better when it is bigger and you’ll tend to forget about the money in between so if a rainy day does comes you have that little bit of extra if you need it.
My main reason for this tip is the gas you’ll save going back and forth to the bank. You can even have the banks roll it for you at some banks, like US Bank will sort it all out with their little change thing instead of paying for coinstar to do it for you.
Written By: Kim Woods
Tags: banks, coins, gas, rolled, save
Posted in Everything Environmental, TriLeaf's Eco Tips | No Comments »
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Use cedar chips or aromatic herbs instead of mothballs
Some of you may be asking why? I know I did, while I am not a fan of the moth ball smell they always seemed to work. But mothballs contain a pesticide called napthalene which the EPA has linked even short-term exposure to cataracts, liver and nuerological damage.
It has been found that moths do not like the smell of cloves, fresh rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, cinnamon sticks, and bay leaves. For an easy way to replace your mothballs, put them in some cheesecloth material, or a lightweight material and hang them from your closet.
I hope you’ll try out this alternative and let us know the results. I know I will when the time comes. One less thing to buy even because I have those herbs in my spice cabinet.
Tags: clothes, environment, herbs, mothballs, save
Posted in TriLeaf's Eco Tips | No Comments »
